Audio original order of discussion:
Chris Cutrone discusses with Doug Lain Immanuel Wallerstein’s “World Systems Theory” 1996 predictions about 2025 and how they have or have not come true. In the second half, they discuss the idea of “common sense socialism” and its relation to Marxist theory, the question of practice, and philosophy.
Chris Cutrone discusses with Eamon of Swoletariat his article “Socialist unity!” published in Sublation Magazine.
Chris Cutrone discusses with Tony of 1Dime Radio his article “Socialist unity!” published in Sublation Magazine.
Chris Cutrone discusses his article “Socialist unity!” published in Sublation Magazine.
https://www.sublationmag.com/post/socialist-unity
In the second half, Doug Lain and Cutrone discuss revelations about the anti-Trump Russia collusion hoax.
What is philosophy? What is history? What is capitalism? What does Marxism have to say about this? What about Trump?
Chris Cutrone and Douglas Lain discuss Cutrone’s article “What Musk and Trump still have in common,” published in Compact Magazine, July 8, 2025. In the second half, they discuss Cutrone’s essay “Beyond history? Nietzsche, Benjamin, Adorno.”
Chris Cutrone discusses the regressive character of the hoopla around Zohran Mamdani and explains how this is a repetition of the past failures of the Left. We are being asked to reinvest in a failed strategy once again. In the second half, Cutrone discusses Trump’s bombing of Iran and Benjamin’s philosophy of history.
Discussion at New York University by the producers and principal interviewers after a test screening of Sublation Media Douglas Lain’s documentary film The Last Election (2025), on the 2024 U.S. Presidential and general election through coverage of the major political party conventions and protests in Milwaukee and Chicago. Discussants include producers Chris Cutrone and Edward Remus, interviewers Benjamin Studebaker and Wyatt Verlen, and director Doug Lain.