Chris Cutrone with Doug Lain and Ashley Frawley on the need for a new socialist party

Chris Cutrone discusses his pre-political project, the Campaign for a socialist party in the U.S., with Doug Lain and Ashley Frawley. In this week’s Sublation Media stream we re-evaluate the “culture war” as a form of “catch-all” politics, and announce our intention to create a proto-party internationally.

11 Theses on the Campaign for a socialist party in the U.S.:
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/GpwweuY7da1fYvZe/

Chris Cutrone

Chris Cutrone is a college educator, writer, and media artist, committed to critical thinking and artistic practice and the politics of social emancipation. ( . . . )

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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 2006–2024 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 2006–2022 (2023) and Marxism and Politics: Essays on Critical Theory and the Party 2006–2024 (2024).

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.