Chris Cutrone and Douglas Lain discuss the essay “Do we need Adorno?” The essay was published in Nonsite in 2012 and is included in Cutrone’s new book Marxism and Politics: Essays on Critical Theory and the Party 2006-2024.
Chris Cutrone with Doug Lain and Ashley Frawley on defending the Frankfurt School
Chris Cutrone joins Ashley Frawley and Douglas Lain to respond to Midwestern Marx’s Carlos Garrido and other Leftist criticisms of the Frankfurt School.
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 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 Western Maoism
Chris Cutrone and Douglas Lain discuss how Maoism came to define the ideology of the American Left as the CutroneZone returns in 2024. Doug and Chris continue to discuss Maoism and its aftermath in the Parrot Room, and touch upon the “Left” on Israel-Palestine.
Chris Cutrone with Aufhebunga Bunga on The Death of the Millennial Left
Chris Cutrone of Platypus joins Aufhebunga Bunga, Philip Cunliffe, George Hoare, and Alex Hochuli, to talk about his collection of essays, The Death of the Millennial Left. We discuss: Why define it as the “Millennial” Left? Was the anti-Stalinism of leaderless protests a good thing? Did the talk of “winning” from 2015 onwards represent maturity? Should the turn to a more public, statist capitalism make us more optimistic? How will the ‘lawfare’ used against Trump play out?
Chris Cutrone and David Kunsman on The Death of the Millennial Left
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.
Chris Cutrone with Doug Lain on Hamas, Israel, the Left and socialism
The Last Marxist Chris Cutrone discusses the situation in Israel and Gaza, explains his own controversial understanding of what’s necessary for the emancipation of the Palestinians, and discusses what he calls “reformism with bombs.” Chris and Doug continue their discussion of how the Left’s understanding of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict is broken.