Chris Cutrone with Doug Lain on Israel-Palestine, Marxism and socialism

Chris Cutrone addresses his critics and returns to the need to develop a socialist politics as opposed to an ethno-nationalist Wilsonian utopian politics in the Cutrone Zone. Chris Cutrone continues to discuss the Israel/Palestine conflict and the need for socialism in the Parrot Room.

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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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.

Chris Cutrone and Doug Lain on Marxism as a religion

This week’s Cutrone Zone takes up the claim that Marxism is a religion and Marx is the Pope. Can we demonstrate that Marx’s thought and Marxism are something more than noble lies told to prop up what is, ultimately, an absurd existence?

Chris and Doug continue to discuss the current political moment in the Parrot Room.

Chris Cutrone on Common Ruin podcast on the Left and Marxism (audio recordings)

Chris Cutrone joins host Michael Acuña to analyze Marxism’s place within the broader Left-wing movement historically, as well as themes from Cutrone’s latest work The Death of the Millennial Left.

In the second half of their exchange, Michael Acuña and Chris Cutrone continue to examine Marxism’s relationship to the Left. Virtue ethics, liberalism, and the question of immigration are also given consideration.