Chris Cutrone discusses Leszek Kolakowski’s essay “The Concept of the Left.” From the essay: “The Left — and this is its unchangeable and indispensable quality, though by no means its only one — is a movement of negation toward the existing world. For this very reason it is, as we have seen, a constructive force. It is, simply, a quest for change.”
Chris Cutrone with Theory Underground in Chicago (video and audio recordings)
Chris Cutrone and the Platypus Affiliated Society meet Theory Underground on its book tour of the United States for Underground Theory, in which Cutrone’s essay on “The negative dialectic of Marxism” is included.
Chris Cutrone with Doug Lain on Obama and Trump
Chris Cutrone looks back at the Obama years from his book The Death of the Millennial Left.
This week’s second hour of the CutroneZone includes a discussion on how we should understand Trump as a product of the Left.
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 discusses The Death of the Millennial Left at Sublation Summer Conference in New York (video and audio recordings)
Chris Cutrone discusses his book The Death of the Millennial Left at the Sublation Summer Conference in New York.
Chris Cutrone with Sohrab Ahmari on Tyranny Inc and The Death of the Millennial Left (video and audio recordings)
Chris Cutrone and Sohrab Ahmari discuss their new books Tyranny Inc and The Death of the Millennial Left at the Sublation Summer Conference in New York, joined by Ashley Frawley, Jacob Siegel and Douglas Lain.
Chris Cutrone with Doug Lain on Marxism and capitalism as an illness
Chris Cutrone’s “Cutronezone” featuring a conversation about his 2018 essay “The future of socialism: What kind of illness is capitalism?”
Chris Cutrone on Common Ruin podcast on the Left and Marxism (audio recordings)
Chris Cutrone joins host Michael Acuña to analyze Marxismâs place within the broader Left-wing movement historically, as well as themes from Cutroneâs latest work The Death of the Millennial Left.
In the second half of their exchange, Michael Acuña and Chris Cutrone continue to examine Marxismâs relationship to the Left. Virtue ethics, liberalism, and the question of immigration are also given consideration.
Chris Cutrone on Sublation Show on Trump indictments and authoritarian Democrats
Chris Cutrone joins Ashley Frawley and Douglas Lain to discuss the political implications of the Trump indictments and to discuss how an independent socialist movement could interpret this political moment.
What will 2024 bring to America? What is a constitutional crisis?
Chris Cutrone with Doug Lain on Lenin’s liberalism (video and audio recordings)
Chris Cutrone, author of The Death of the Millennial Left, former president of the Platypus Affiliated Society, professor of critical theory and art, continues to reign in the CutroneZone, discussing his 2011 essay on “Lenin’s liberalism,” to be included in his forthcoming book Marxism and Politics.