Some New World Myths of Supernatural Belief in a Secular Age By: Peter Harrison Capital Hates Everyone Fascism or Revolution By: Maurizio Lazzarato The Worlds of Public Health Anthropological Excursions 1st Edition By: Didier Fassin Silent Coup How Corporations Overthrew Democracy By: Claire Provost, Matt Kennard The Need for Roots By: Simone Weil On the Ecclesiastical Mystagogy A Theological Vision … Read more
Spencer and Laurie visit with Chris Cutrone, a leading founder of the Platypus Affiliated Society and the author of a new book published by Sublation Media. Here’s a link to Cutrone’s latest book, Marxism and Politics: Essays on Critical Theory and the Party, 2006-2024, Sublation Media, 2024.
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The focus for the 2024 Marx Reading Group will be Marx’s writings on Non-Capitalist Social Formations. Topics discussed will include the transition from feudalism to capitalism, the accelerationist vibes of Marx and Engels’ 1840s writings, modes of production and non-linear history, Marx’s later rejection of evolutionary models, Marx’s Ethnological Notebooks, and Marx’s comments on several … Read more
The Cutrone Zone is back for an interesting discussion on the usefulness of the term ‘neofeudalism’ for understanding capitalism, and a fairly deep dive into what Marxists should think of religion.
This group will meet the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month at 7pm CST. Sessions are expected to run 90 minutes, give or take a quarter hour. The first session will be February 8, from 7-8:30pm CST. The format for the group will be to literally read Marx together. We will start with Das … Read more
Laurie and Spencer spend some time unpacking the significance of their latest interview with “the last Marxist,” Chris Cutrone. Cutrone is one of our favorite Marxist theorists, and talking to him is always thought provoking. Some of the highlights that make this interview different are his ideas on the state of higher education in the US, Cutrone’s views on Christianity and church, and his discussion of possible future scenarios including climate change social and economic disruptions.
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Spencer and Laurie interview “the last Marxist”, Christ Cutrone about his experience with Catholic Worker-style Christians, the limits of the left, and what is to be done.
Spencer and Laurie recap the first half of Season 1 of Dustbowl Diatribes, with a focus on our intention and purpose in introducing themes like taking advantage of “the spoils of Egypt,” and concepts like metabolic rifts and the abstract domination of capital, as well as interviews that helped us understand why it’s so hard to break away from that domination.