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This is a voice-over reading of my essay "Revolution and Reaction" published on my Substack. In this essay, I articulate my definitive position on the revolution versus reform debate, testing the revolutionary left's case against the historical record, arguing that every revolution calls up a reaction at least as ferocious as itself, and showing how social democracy delivered most of what revolution promised without the bodies. It opens with a short preface on the October 2026 riots in France and closes on why revolutionary communism in the West is now a LARPer's posture, not a threat.

This essay didn't make it into my latest book, Post-Left Theory: Beyond Anarchism, Marxism, and Vibes. Get the ebook or the physical copy at https://postlefttheory.com

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In this episode of 1Dime Radio, I am joined by political theorist Benjamin Studebaker to discuss Trump's failures, Canada's trade war with the US, and whether Mark Carney deserves the hype. We debate the limits of American power, Europe's supposedly revolutionary right, Fukuyama's end of history, the fallout from the Iran war, and what AI's military applications reveal about its capabilities.

In the Patreon-exclusive Backroom, we discuss how AI safety panic can function as AI marketing, my experience with an AI safety sponsorship offer, AI's uses and limits in research, and the strange ideologies of Silicon Valley.

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Timestamps:
0:00 The Backroom Preview
3:06 Intro
4:04 Carney and the US-Canada Trade War
15:15 The Limits of American Power
21:16 Trump's Authoritarianism or Impotence?
28:46 Can Parliamentary Systems Get More Done?
36:47 Why America Needs Enemies
44:46 Does Carney Actually Make a Difference?
51:20 Canadian Patriotism and the Conservative Defeat
59:28 Germany, the AfD, and Fascism Analogies
1:08:57 Fukuyama and the End of History
1:16:37 The Houthis and the Fallout From Iran
1:23:32 France, Le Pen, and Technopopulism
1:32:30 AI, Warfare, and the Limits of the Hype
1:37:10 Into the Backroom

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Benjamin Studebaker, political theorist and author of Legitimacy in Liberal Democracies.

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In this episode of 1Dime Radio, I am joined by my co-author David McKerracher (Dave) of Theory Underground to celebrate the release of our new book, Post-Left Theory: Beyond Marxism, Anarchism, and Vibes. We preview some of our spiciest essays, challenging the sacred cows of the contemporary left, from Marxism and anarchism to wokeism, feminism, gender relations, and the limits of left-wing politics. We also reflect on our experience at TUCON and CanonFest, discuss the crisis of modern intellectual culture, and introduce Dave’s new philosophy trading card game, Canon: TCG, including my adventures collecting and trading rare Hegel, Freud, and Leo Strauss cards.

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Timestamps:

0:00 Cold Open: Previewing Our New Book

3:02 1Dime Radio Intro

4:00 Announcing Post-Left Theory

7:26 TUCON and CanonFest: Theory Beyond the Internet

9:00 Canon: TCG, Philosophy Cards, and the Hunt for Leo Strauss

13:18 Making Philosophy Fun and Family-Friendly

19:43 Why We Need to Think Beyond Left and Right

23:28 The Left’s Culture War Problem

29:28 The DSA, Wokeism, and the Health Fascism Controversy

37:11 Masculinity, Gender Norms, and Lacanian Psychoanalysis

41:20 The Forbidden Topics of Post-Left Theory

43:09 The Cornell Seven, Frat Culture, and the Sexual Revolution

47:45 Why Consent Alone Is Not Enough

51:19 The Gender War, Dating Culture, and the Red Pill

57:39 Inside Our Book: Marxism, Anarchism, and Our Spiciest Essays

1:03:59 Canon: TCG Kickstarter and the Future of the Game

1:06:09 Why You Should Read Post-Left Theory

GUEST:

David McKerracher (Dave), founder of Theory Underground, author of Timenergy, co-author of Post-Left Theory, and creator of Canon: TCG.

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A voice over for an essay I spent a lot of time on, originally published on my Substack: https://1dimereview.substack.com/p/nationalist-internationalism?r=2sschq&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer

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Timestamps for this Essay:

0:00 Nationalist internationalism

0:04 Nationalism's progressive role in history

2:28 Who's afraid of nationalism?

3:47 Do people still identify with the nation?

6:10 Patriotism versus nationalism

16:39 Anti-patriotism on the left

20:40 Oppressor nations versus oppressed nations

25:09 Ethnonationalism versus civic nationalism

29:56 Nationalism and democracy

34:33 National class consciousness

37:35 Do workers of the world have no homeland?

43:56 The only alternative to nationalism is more local tribalisms

50:01 There is no internationalist politics

1:00:22 Internationalism versus globalism

1:03:17 Am I a nationalist?

1:08:44 Conclusion: The Dialectic of Historical Progress

1:11:49 Footnotes / works cited

More stuff like this to come in my forthcoming book, Post-Left Theory: Beyond Marxism, Anarchism, and Vibes, written with David McKerracher of Theory Underground and out October 15, 2026. If you enjoyed this and want to read the many essays in the book that have never been made public, or you simply want to support my written work, I would be grateful if you checked it out.

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In this episode of 1Dime Radio, I am joined by Haz Al-Din, Chairman of the American Communist Party and host of Infrared, a long-requested and highly controversial guest. We get into why Infrared broke with the American left, MAGA Communism and patriotic socialism, China and the limits of liberal democracy, what socialism with American characteristics could actually mean, the failures of Soviet socialism, markets vs. planning, and whether AI and cybernetics are pushing us toward a radically different economic system.

In the Patreon-exclusive Backroom, I press Haz harder on whether he is really a Marxist or closer to what I call a national-conservative socialist. We also get more personal about our shared Lebanese heritage and experiences growing up in Lebanese immigrant families, along with Islam, Christianity, socialism, culture, and the strange overlap between our backgrounds despite our political disagreements.

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Timestamps:

0:00 The Backroom Preview: Is Haz Really a Marxist?

3:09 1Dime Radio Intro

4:07 Who Is Haz Al-Din and Why Is the ACP So Controversial?

14:01 MAGA Communism, Nationalism, and Conservatism

23:12 China, Liberal Democracy, and Party Dictatorship

27:41 Socialism With American Characteristics

35:07 What MAGA Communism Was Really About

43:24 Is Liberal Democracy Dying?

49:42 Is American Patriotism Dead?

55:53 The Lost Socialist History of America

1:03:19 The Soviet Union, Stalin,

1:12:37 The American Communist Party, AI and Economic Planning

1:19:27 “Actually Existing Socialism” and Marxism-Leninism debate

1:27:52

1:32:19 Markets vs. Planning

1:40:52 Do Markets Even Exist Anymore?

1:48:39 AI, Desire, and Cybernetics

1:51:55 Why I Finally Interviewed Haz

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Haz Al-Din: Chairman of the American Communist Party and host of Infrared

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What you are about to listen to is a short essay I posted on Substack a while ago that was originally a speech that I presented at my friend Greg Guevara’s (the YouTuber known as Jreg) “Anti-Clanker” rally back in September. It was an event about critiques of AI, featuring other guest speakers such as YouTube creators Gokanaru, Art Chad, Duncan Clarke, Were in Hell, and Cricket Guest. I didn’t publish my speech because I had not launched my Substack yet, but I figured I might as well put this article out now before someone else writes something that says more or less the same thing (maybe someone already has, but alas). Enjoy!

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BONUS EPISODE: This conversation with Christian Parenti was originally released as a Patreon-exclusive episode of The Backroom, recorded well over a year ago. In light of recent disclosures and renewed scrutiny surrounding Dr. Anthony Fauci, the origins of COVID-19, and U.S.-funded coronavirus research, many of the questions raised in this discussion have become newly relevant, which is why I think it is worth releasing publicly now.

In this episode of 1Dime Radio, I am joined by Christian Parenti, professor of economics at John Jay College, contributor to Compact, author of books including Radical Hamilton, Tropic of Chaos, and Lockdown America, and son of the late Michael Parenti. Parenti argues that much of the left abandoned its traditional skepticism of state and corporate power during COVID, embracing lockdowns, censorship, vaccine mandates, and what he describes as “scientism.” We discuss school closures and class, the Canadian trucker convoy, Big Pharma and Big Tech, vaccine mandates and civil liberties, biodefense and gain-of-function research, the professional-managerial left, and why Parenti came out of the pandemic identifying as both a classical Marxist and a classical liberal.

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Timestamps:

0:00 Cold Open: How the Left Got COVID Wrong
2:21 1Dime Radio Intro
3:19 Why the Left Embraced Lockdowns
10:13 Fauci, the Lab-Leak Debate & COVID Incentives
15:25 “Weaponized Solidarity,” School Closures & Mandates
25:16 The Trucker Convoy, Censorship & the Populist Right
32:46 Biodefense, Gain-of-Function & Vaccine History
39:21 The PMC Left & the Politics of Respectability
44:49 Vaccines, Myocarditis & COVID Risk
53:52 Civil Liberties, Vaccine Passports & the Left’s Authoritarian Turn
57:37 Classical Marxism Meets Classical Liberalism

GUEST:

Christian Parenti
Professor of Economics at John Jay College, author of Radical Hamilton, Tropic of Chaos, and Lockdown America, and contributor to Compact.

Compact:
https://www.compactmag.com/contributor/christian-parenti/

John Jay College:
https://www.jjay.cuny.edu/faculty/christian-parenti

“How the Organized Left Got COVID Wrong, Learned to Love Lockdowns and Lost Its Mind: An Autopsy”:
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In The Backroom, we discuss the topic of dating, Socialism & civilization, and debate whether libertarian socialism can scale.

In this episode of 1Dime Radio, I am joined by Daniel from the YouTube channel What Is Politics? to unpack what we call the “Lizard Left”: the use of egalitarian and left-wing language to reproduce hierarchy, status competition, and social control. We discuss wokeism and the Socialism Conference, the DSA and the “rebel priest class,” why the left struggles to connect with ordinary people, what socialism actually means beyond the Soviet legacy, whether socialism can scale, and what dating apps, social clubs, tribalism, civilization, birth rates, and immigration reveal about the deeper problem of rebuilding a viable left.

The second half of the conversation continues in the Patreon-exclusive Backroom.

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Timestamps:

00:00 Woke 2.0 & The Socialism Conference (The Backroom Preview)

05:29 Daniel Returns

08:52 The Lizard Left

16:55 The Socialism Conference & “Fitness Is Fascism?”

30:34 The Rebel Priest Class & the Working Class

38:17 Feminism, Immigration & “Actually Existing” Ideology

43:17 What Is Socialism? Markets, Democracy & the Soviet Legacy

49:08 The Two Lefts & Culture War

55:03 Woke Resentment, the PMC & Lumpenization

1:07:14 Socialist Dating Apps, Social Media & Nonprofit Alternatives

1:11:02 Rebuilding Socialist Social Clubs

1:21:06 Tribalism, Hunter-Gatherers & Human Nature

1:25:01 Democracy, Socialism & Civilization

1:35:04 Egalitarianism, Difference & Group Conflict

1:39:23 Birth Rates, Immigration & Civilizational Decline

1:51:29 The Conversation Continues in the Backroom

The Backroom

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This is an older bonus episode originally released exclusively in The Backroom. I’m releasing it publicly in part as a reminder of the kind of longer, less filtered conversations Patreon supporters get access to.

In this episode of 1Dime Radio, I am joined by political theorist Benjamin Studebaker to revisit the idea of the “neo-left” and ask whether Pedro Sánchez and Spain’s Socialist Workers’ Party represent an alternative to neoliberalism or a left-wing way of administering it. We discuss immigration and labor power, borders and imperialism, the constraints imposed by the European Union, Spain’s tourism and property-driven growth, and why the Spanish model may not be the blueprint for the left that some imagine it to be.

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Timestamps:
0:00 Preview: Immigration, Borders & Imperialism
3:02 Intro
4:02 What Is the “Neo-Left”?
14:50 Migration Policy
22:24 Immigration & Imperialism
35:13 Nation-States vs. Globalization
44:19 Spain’s “Success” Story
49:22 Sánchez and the EU Fiscal Rules
58:21 Why Spain Isn’t a Blueprint
65:19 Property, Demographics & Migration

GUEST:
Benjamin Studebaker — Political theorist and author of Legitimacy in Liberal Democracies

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This is a voice-over of an Essay I published on Substack, which will be part of my Post-Left Theory book with Dave McKarikker of Theory Underground coming out this October.

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In this episode of 1Dime Radio, I am joined by Peter Ryan, founder of Ryan Research, to recover a forgotten tradition of political economy that refuses the usual choice between Marxism and free-market liberalism. We contrast Karl Marx with Friedrich List and Matthew and Henry Carey, trace economic nationalism from the American System to MMT and Ha-Joon Chang, and ask whether national sovereignty, protectionism, and state capacity offer a more practical path to development and anti-imperialism.

In The Backroom, the Patreon-exclusive segment, we expand this conversation across three additional episodes with Peter Ryan. We discuss nationalist internationalism and Arnold Toynbee’s theory of civilizational cycles; Henry Carey, rentierism, Marxism, and the Irish struggle for national liberation; and, in a nearly three-hour finale, the post-left/post-right convergence, the moral limits of markets, immigration, industrial policy, class coalitions, empire, and whether any populist project can escape establishment capture.

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Timestamps:

0:00 The Backroom Preview: Nationalism Against Imperialism

3:52 1Dime Radio Intro

4:50 Peter Ryan and the Forgotten Economic Tradition

15:07 Karl Marx Versus Friedrich List

22:57 MMT and the Forgotten History of Monetary Sovereignty

34:05 Beyond Libertarianism: Why State Capacity Matters

46:43 Who Controls the State?

57:02 Friedrich List and the Carey School

1:07:26 War, Industry, and America’s Protectionist Turn

1:15:50 Matthew and Henry Carey

1:27:27 Henry Carey, Lincoln, and Marx

1:34:06 Nationalist Internationalism and The Backroom

GUEST:

Peter Ryan is the founder of Ryan Research, where he writes and consults on economics, history, technology, and business strategy. His work has appeared in Compact, UnHerd, Gript, and other publications.

* Ryan Research YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfRArvBl7O7AuQFtTTKaUCw

* Ryan Research Substack: https://ryanresearch.substack.com/

* Ryan Research website: https://www.ryanresearch.co/

* Our previous conversation, “Critiquing Left and Right”: https://ryanresearch.substack.com/p/critiquing-left-and-right-tony-chamas

BOOKS DISCUSSED:

* Roman Szporluk, Communism and Nationalism: Karl Marx Versus Friedrich List

https://books.google.com/books?id=8BfoCwAAQBAJ

* Friedrich List, The National System of Political Economy

https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/lloyd-the-national-system-of-political-economy

* Ha-Joon Chang, Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective

https://anthempress.com/books/kicking-away-the-ladder-pb

* Ha-Joon Chang, Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism

https://hajoonchang.net/writings

PETER RYAN ON THE CAREY SCHOOL:

* “The Carey Project Launch”

https://ryanresearch.substack.com/p/the-carey-project-launch-partnered

* “Rent Is a Symptom, Not the Disease: A Careyist Review of Economic Rents”

https://ryanresearch.substack.com/p/rent-is-a-symptom-not-the-disease

RELATED ESSAY:

* “Nationalist Internationalism: The Case for Nationalism Beyond the Nation-State”

https://1dimereview.substack.com/p/nationalist-internationalism

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This episode is an ElevenLabs voice-over of “The American Revolution: A Revolution Unfinished,” an essay I originally published on the Fourth of July on my Substack, 1Dime Review.

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In this essay, I examine the contradictory legacy of 1776 and argue that the American Revolution was both a genuinely radical democratic transformation and a project complicit in slavery, racial domination, and Native dispossession. Rather than abandoning the language of liberty and popular sovereignty to the right, I argue that the left should reclaim the unfinished democratic tradition running from Paine and Jefferson through abolition, labor, and civil rights, and complete the promises that America’s managed political system was designed to contain.

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Timestamps:
0:00 The American Revolution: A Revolution Unfinished
0:12 Should We Reclaim the Legacy of 1776?
3:29 A Contradictory Legacy: Neither Saints nor Villains
13:00 Why Claim the Revolution?
27:06 The Unfinished Revolution
31:13 Footnotes/Citations

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This is an Elleven Labs voice-over of an essay I released a while ago on my Substack titled "The Post-Woke Age: Making Sense of Mamdani, AI Job Loss and the 'Vibe Shift“ A Post-Woke Age,” (Part 3 of my Genealogy of Wokeism series). In this essay, I argue that the Fourth Awokening is exhausting itself while AI-driven white-collar displacement could produce a Fifth Awokening through a broader crisis of elite overproduction. I also examine the return of class politics, the appeal of neoreaction, whether a “woke right” really exists, Zohran Mamdani’s rise, the left’s inability to learn from defeat, and the political trajectory of the Palestine movement.

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Timestamps:
0:00 The Post-Woke Age
7:46 Is Woke Dead, or Is It Coming Back?
14:00 The Vibe Shift
19:47 AI and the Fifth Awokening
26:52 Elite Overproduction in STEM
32:59 The FIRE Industries and Bullshit Jobs
34:41 Blue-Collar Workers and the Producer Class
44:12 The Appeal of Neoreaction
46:52 Is There a Woke Right?
52:48 Rise of Class Politics Across Left and Right
55:46 Don’t Mess With the Zohran
1:08:59 Why Mamdani Won
1:13:39 It’s Not Just Optics. It’s About Truth
1:16:43 Anti-Left Propaganda Works Because Leftists Are the Propaganda
1:21:56 Why the Left Is Slow to Learn
1:28:19 Israel and Palestine
1:35:39 Bibliography/Footnotes

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In this episode of 1Dime Radio, I am joined by Chris Cutrone, founder of the Platypus Affiliated Society, to debate the professional-managerial class, elite theory, and whether either offers a better explanation of today’s left than Marxism. Taking Cutrone’s essay “Was Lenin PMC?” as our starting point, we clash over the 20% versus 80% framework, liberal democracy, managerialism, the role of intellectuals in socialist politics, and what Marxism is actually for in the absence of a proletarian socialist movement.

In the Patreon-exclusive Backroom, we move from history into strategy: whether a viable class coalition must extend beyond the proletariat, why Marxism still matters, whether Cutrone is really as Marxist as he claims, and why most self-described Marxists have no real commitment to communism. We also turn to the Graham Platner fiasco, the culture of #MeToo, and some characteristically hot takes from Cutrone.

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Timestamps:

0:00 The Backroom Preview: Graham Platner and #MeToo

4:12 1Dime Radio Intro

5:10 Marxism vs. Elite Theory

13:42 The 20% vs. the 80%

18:15 Is the Left Actually Left?

22:50 Marxism and Liberal Democracy

30:01 What Elite Theory Explains

36:34 Theory, Strategy, and Practice

41:03 The Synthetic Left and Family Abolition

51:26 Marxism as the Critique of Socialism

59:20 Intellectuals, Class, and the PMC

66:15 Elite Overproduction and Academia

74:16 What Is Marxism For?

78:28 In What Sense Is Cutrone a Marxist?

1:25:48 Join Us in The Backroom

GUEST:

Chris Cutrone | Founder of the Platypus Affiliated Society

* Chris Cutrone’s website: [https://chriscutrone.platypus1917.org/](https://chriscutrone.platypus1917.org/)

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* “Was Lenin PMC?”: [https://www.sublationmag.com/post/was-lenin-pmc-how-elite-theory-doesn-t-fit-the-movement-for-socialism](https://www.sublationmag.com/post/was-lenin-pmc-how-elite-theory-doesn-t-fit-the-movement-for-socialism)

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This episode is an ElevenLabs voice-over of my essay “The Culture War IS the Class War: A Theory of the Two Lefts,” the fourth and final essay in my Genealogy of Wokeism series, originally published on my Substack.

The essay challenges the familiar claim that the culture war is merely a distraction from the class war. Instead, I argue that the culture war is one arena of class conflict, driven by elite overproduction and an internal division between two increasingly incompatible lefts: a class-first left committed to universal economic transformation and a woke cultural left rooted in the professional-managerial class.

Using the Bernie Sanders campaigns of 2016 and 2020—including the defining confrontation at his 2015 Seattle rally—as case studies, I examine the left-unity trap, pseudo-radicalism, institutional capture, K–12 education, gender politics, and the tendency of post-woke leftists to dismiss live cultural conflicts as fringe distractions. The essay argues that a serious working-class politics cannot succeed by ignoring these conflicts or indefinitely accommodating the faction that dominates the left’s institutional terrain.

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Timestamps:

0:00 The Culture War IS the Class War: A Theory of the Two Lefts
2:12 Memory-Holing Wokeism
7:44 Culture War Is Class War
13:54 The Lesson of Bernie Sanders, 2016–2020
16:17 The Day Sanders Stood Still
34:19 The Left’s Civil War
41:26 A Theory of the Two Lefts
51:37 The Left Unity Trap
53:24 The Hard Truth Most Old Leftists Don’t Want to Admit
56:26 How Pseudo-Radicalism Masks the Divide Between the Two Lefts
1:05:37 If Wokeism Is So Fringe, Then Why Doesn’t the Left Reject It?
1:09:29 Wokeism as a Paper Tiger
1:12:28 Why Accommodating Woke Fails
1:15:39 What Is to Be Done?
1:18:23 The Correct Answer to “Throwing Minorities Under the Bus”
1:28:49 Nothing to See Here, Folks. Turning a Blind Eye.
1:29:56 K–12 Radicalism and Gender/Race Education Revolution
1:31:40 The Gender Wars Were Waged by the Wokes and Rejected by the Right
1:36:47 Why Ignoring Culture War Enables Wokeism
1:38:16 “No War but Class War” Is a Lazy Cop-Out
1:41:30 What Discourse Is For
1:45:42 Conclusion: The Class War Is Inseparable from the Culture War

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In this episode of 1Dime Radio, I am joined by philosopher and writer Daniel Tutt, who recently co-authored the book The People Are Not One: Socialist Strategy After Left Populism. We discuss why left populism failed, whether socialism can avoid populism, Bernie Sanders and the problem of recuperation, Trump and Bonapartism, the difference between populism and democracy, working-class “common sense,” Gramsci vs. Machiavelli, and the widening class divide between the contemporary left and the people it claims to represent.

There are two Patreon-exclusive Backroom episodes this week: one titled“Strategizing the Class War” and one titled“Culture War As Class War,”Daniel and I continue the debate over what a serious class politics would actually look like. We get into the PMC and the “cultural apartheid” between classes, immigration, welfare and lumpenization, rentierism and private property, Christopher Lasch, DSA and woke politics, and whether the contemporary left can be reformed from within or is already locked in a civil war over what socialism is supposed to be.

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Timestamps:
0:00 The Backroom Preview
6:15 Populism vs Marxism
11:13 Recuperation, Bonapartism, and Trump
19:52 Bernie Sanders and the Failure of Left Populism

16:51 Populism As a Style Vs as an Ideology
29:11 Populism vs. Democracy
35:53 Common Sense, Gramsci, and Machiavelli
43:04 Who Are the Common People?
51:55 Why Marxism Attracts Intellectuals
55:11 DSA, Culture War, & Immigration
1:00:02 Rebuilding Class Politics
1:02:16 Transition to The Backroom

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Daniel Tutt | Philosopher, writer, host of Emancipations, and co-author of The People Are Not One: Socialist Strategy After Left Populism

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• The People Are Not One: https://www.revolpress.com/people-not-one
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This special bonus episode of 1Dime Radio is a rare public release of a conversation previously available only through The Backroom, my Patreon-exclusive podcast. I sit down with political theorist Benjamin Studebaker to challenge assumptions on the far left about Marxism, communism, class, and revolution, from the decline of the organized working class and the rise of rentier capitalism to Marxism’s missing theory of politics, the failures of one-party states, China’s relationship to the world system, and the fantasy of world revolution.

This public release contains the first half of our three-and-a-half-hour conversation and ends just as we turn to the dictatorship of the proletariat. Patrons can hear the full discussion in The Backroom.

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Timestamps:
0:00 Preview: How Capitalism Ruins the Elite
2:37 Intro
3:35 Are We Marxists?
10:43 Middle Capitalism and the New Class Structure
25:14 Labor vs. the Vulnerable
30:27 What Marxism Gets Right About Capitalism
37:36 Marxism’s Moral and Political Blind Spot
46:45 Needs, Consumer Goods, and Soviet Collapse
54:38 False Needs, Christianity, and the Internet
1:03:09 Pessimism, Accelerationism, and Anti-Imperialism
1:06:05 Why Not Communism?
1:12:01 Can Politics Exist Without the State?
1:16:21 China, the WTO, and the Limits of Socialist Power
1:25:01 Can Internationalism Avoid Imperialism?
1:40:22 Socialist Geopolitics and the Burden of Proof
1:43:17 Hear the Full Conversation on Patreon
1:44:25 The True Test of a Revolution

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Benjamin Studebaker: political theorist and author of Legitimacy in Liberal Democracies

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• Political Theory 101: https://soundcloud.com/benjamin-studebaker

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This is a complete audio voiceover recording of my essay on “The Genealogy of Wokeism.” The essay provides a complete history of what people call "wokeness" and develops a new theory of how to define it. The original essay was first published on my ⁠Substack⁠, 1Dime Review: It was also published by the New Centre for Research & Practice:

⁠https://tripleampersand.org/the-genealogy-of-wokeism/⁠

Part Two of “The Genealogy of Wokeism” has also been published on my Substack the New Centre for Research & Practice.

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Timestamps:

0:00 The Genealogy of Wokeism, Part One

5:59 The Etymology of Wokeism

8:01 Defining Wokeism

20:00 Who Are the Woke People and Where Did They Come From?

21:35 The Professional Managerial Class and the Symbolic Capitalists

28:37 The Symbolic Capitalists

32:59 Wokeism Beyond the Professional Managerial Class

35:19 Totemic Capital, Victimhood as Status Currency

40:47 Leftist versus Liberal Wokeism

45:49 Elite Overproduction: The Economics of Wokeism

46:36 What Changed? Since 2010?

49:37 The First Awokening, 1920s to 1930s

56:36 The Second Awokening, 1960s to 1970s

59:14 The Civil Rights Movement Was Not Woke

1:02:59 Wokeism versus the Silent Majority

1:07:42 The Third Awokening and the '80s Culture Wars

1:11:06 The Origin of Political Correctness

1:17:00 Action Precedes Reaction: What Liberals and Leftists Don't Get About Culture Wars 1:21:10 The Fourth Awokening, 2011 to 2020s

1:23:10 The Missing Piece: What My Theory Adds

1:27:25 The Connection Between Wokeism, Political Correctness, and Cancel Culture

1:30:31 Wokeism and Narcissism 1:34:23 Typical Examples of Wokeism

1:37:01 Are Identity Politics Always Woke?

1:43:25 Was Woke Co-opted? The Elite Capture Excuse

1:45:31 Wokeism's Anti-Political Character

1:48:50 From Hyperpolarization to Depoliticization

1:55:07 Footnotes/Sources Cited

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In this episode of 1Dime Radio, I am joined by Jack Ross, an independent historian, acquisitions editor at Sublation Media, and author of The Socialist Party of America: A Complete History and The Strange Death of American Exceptionalism. We compare today’s DSA with America’s Old Left, recovering the forgotten non-communist and anti-communist socialist tradition of Norman Thomas, A. Philip Randolph, and Bayard Rustin while discussing DSA 2.0, Zohran Mamdani, the Old Left–New Left rupture, the Popular Front, Cold War liberalism, Stalinism, the CCP, Hasan Piker, and the crisis of the contemporary online left.

In the Patreon-exclusive Backroom, we discuss Jack’s theses on Trotskyism and neoconservatism, the infamous Trotskyist-to-neoconservative pipeline, and the complicated history of Jewish anti-Zionism, American Zionism, and Zionism more broadly.

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Timestamps:
0:00 Backroom Preview: Tankies and American Socialism
2:36 Intro
3:34 Jack Ross and America’s Old Left
15:07 Anti-Communist Socialists and DSA 2.0
26:13 Norman Thomas, the New Left, and the Popular Front
35:38 Woke Left, Stalinists, and Cold War Liberalism
45:19 McCarthyism, Foreign Influence, and the CCP
50:16 Hasan Piker and the Crisis of the Online Left

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Jack Ross, independent historian, acquisitions editor at Sublation Media, and author of The Socialist Party of America: A Complete History, The Strange Death of American Exceptionalism, and Rabbi Outcast: Elmer Berger and American Jewish Anti-Zionism

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In this episode of 1Dime Radio, I am joined by David McKerracher, founder of ⁨@theory_underground⁩ and author of *Timenergy*, to ask whether the post-left can finally be theorized beyond a dead internet scene, a vague political identity, or a euphemism for moving right. We discuss our upcoming book *Post-Left Theory*, the left as a master signifier, the post-left as a frontier rather than an ideology, the leftist industrial complex, the limits of anti-woke and PMC critique, why Marxism does not resolve the left’s impasse, and the possibility of recovering community and the good life beyond the political duopoly.

We also preview TUCON 2026 and CanonFest, taking place at McKerracher Family Farm in Northern Idaho from August 26–31. Get tickets and see the full schedule here: https://canontcg.com/canonfest

In the Patreon-exclusive Backroom, we ask why not move right, explain why neither Dave nor I are right-wingers, and discuss why recognizing the post-left impasse does not require joining the political right.

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Timestamps:

0:00 Backroom Preview: Why Post-Left Does Not Mean Right

2:56 Intro

3:53 TUCON 2026 and Post-Left Theory

16:50 What Is the Post-Left?

25:55 The Post-Left Is not an Ideology

39:34 The Leftist Industrial Complex

51:00 Where Anti-Woke Critiques Fall Short

1:05:21 Why Not Just Marxism?

1:21:31 Why We Aren't Rightists (Continued in The Backroom, on Patreon)

GUEST:

David McKerracher, founder of Theory Underground, author of *Timenergy*, and chief editor of *Underground Theory*

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* YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theory_underground

* Substack: https://theoryunderground.substack.com/

* Underground Theory, Volume 2, featuring essays by Tony and Dave: https://www.amazon.ca/Underground-Theory-TIMENERGY-I-EDUCATION-ebook/dp/B0G19L25B4

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