Chris Cutrone with Doug Lain on neo-Stalinism and 2024 U.S. elections

The CutroneZone in the Parrot Room: Chris Cutrone and Douglas Lain discuss neo-Stalinism, MAGA Communism, Carlos Garrido of Midwestern Marx, and Doug’s conversation with Caleb Maupin and Peter Coffin. Public segment: Chris Cutrone and Douglas Lain discuss their plans to make a film about the 2024 Democratic and Republican Party conventions. They discuss the films Medium Cool (1969) and Robert Downey Jr.’s The Last Party (1992) as potential influences.

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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.