Chris Cutrone joins Ashley Frawley and Douglas Lain to respond to Midwestern Marx’s Carlos Garrido and other Leftist criticisms of the Frankfurt School.
Book talk on Marxism and Politics at University of Chicago
On April, 4th 2024 as a part of its 2024 International Convention, the Platypus Affiliated Society hosted a book talk from Chris Cutrone for his upcoming book Marxism and Politics: Essays on Critical Theory and the Party 2006â2024 at the University of Chicago. Preview available at:
https://www.academia.edu/118222480/Marxism_and_Politics_Essays_on_Critical_Theory_and_the_Party_2006_2024_extract
Chris Cutrone is the last Marxist. He teaches Critical Theory at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Institute for Clinical Social Work and completed his PhD on Adorno’s Marxism at the University of Chicago, where he taught for many years in the Social Sciences Core Curriculum, and is the original lead organizer and chief pedagogue of the Platypus Affiliated Society. He is the author of Marxism in the Age of Trump (2018), The Death of the Millennial Left: Interventions 2006â2022 (2023) and Marxism and Politics: Essays on Critical Theory and the Party 2006â2024 (2024).
Chris Cutrone with Doug Lain on Finkelstein Vs. Destiny debate on Israel-Palestine
Chris Cutrone discusses the Norman Finkelstein vs. Destiny debate on the Lex Fridman show. How did the framing of this debate accept the very conditions that need to be overcome as immutable and permanent. How might socialists work to overcome these conditions? Chris Cutrone continues to discuss the Finkelstein debate, but we move on to discuss Frederic Jameson, the meaning of Academic Marxism, and what it is to be “pre-canceled” on the Left as a Marxist.
Chris Cutrone with Doug Lain on imperialism and the “Left”
Chris Cutrone returns for another CutroneZone, this time to explain what it means to live through “imperialism as the highest stage of capitalism.”
Chris Cutrone with Theory Underground on Marx’s critique of bourgeois political economy
How to read Das Kapital, value-form debates, and the “Left”? Cutrone visits the Capital Mondays crew for this special episode!
Chris Cutrone with Doug Lain on origins of modernism in art and Marxism
Chris Cutrone walks Doug Lain through the history of bourgeois and modernist art from Eugène Delacroix to Eduard Manet and the Impressionists and its relation to Marxism.
Chris Cutrone with Theory Underground on Marxism
Chris Cutrone with Doug Lain on the missed opportunity of the Millennial Left
Chris Cutrone and Douglas Lain discuss the impact and importance of the Death of the Millennial Left. Along the way they also discuss the true meaning of Thanksgiving. Chris and Doug debate the fine points of Marx’s theory of value and the commodity before returning to general agreement.
Chris Cutrone on modern vs. ancient freedom and Israel-Palestine
Chris Cutrone discusses the current political moment with Douglas Lain. Topics include dialectics, the superiority of Brave New World to 1984, the Palestinian struggle, and why it is that Doug lets Chris get away with murder. Chris and Doug discuss the revival of Osama bin Laden, Marxian value-theory and the state of the Left.
Chris Cutrone with Doug Lain on Palestine protests and the “Left”
Chris Cutrone, author of The Death of the Millennial Left, discusses the left’s embrace of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict as the new center of its political project. Chris Cutrone and Doug continue to discuss the way the American Left has taken up the conflict in Israel as the centerpiece of its political project.