Get access to The Backroom exclusive podcast by becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime In this episode of 1Dime Radio, I am joined by Diego Ruzzarin , a prominent (and controversial) political commentator in the Spanish-speaking world with nearly 1.4 million Subscribers, who primarily covers politics in Latin America as well as Marxist theory. In this episode, we talk about the various governments in Latin America, from Argentina under Javier Milei, Claudia Sheinbaum/AMLO in Mexic...
Oct 25, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 69
Get access to The Backroom Exclusive podcasts by becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime In this episode of 1Dime Radio, I am joined by Jason Myles, the writer, musician, and rockstar from the Band called Bitter Lake. Some of you may know Jason from a podcast called "This Is Revolution" ( @THISISREVOLUTIONpodcast ), a great show that I have recently been on to talk about Controlled Opposition. Jason recently released the short mini-book titled “I Was a Teenage Anarchist,” which ta...
Oct 21, 2024•1 hr 33 min•Ep. 68
Get access to The Backroom Exclusive podcasts by becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime In this episode of 1Dime Radio, I am joined by 3 of my well-educated leftist Mexican friends, Ernesto, Andres, and Connor, who I got to hang out with during my trip to Mexico this year. I learned a lot from talking to them, and by bringing them on 1Dime Radio, I am sure my listeners will learn quite a lot as well. We talk about the state of Mexican politics and provide a historical overview of...
Oct 11, 2024•2 hr 15 min•Ep. 67
Get access to The Backroom Exclusive podcasts by becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime. In this episode, I talk to the notorious Black Red Guard (BRG) about Maoism, Organizing in the DSA, and other Commie Gobbledegook. In the Backroom, BRG talks about Religion and Communism, The Nation of Islam, MAGA Communism, and the most bizarre niche strands of Maoism, such as “Gonzalo thought” and the Peruvian Communist Party (AKA The Shining Path of Peru). Become a Patron at Patreon.com/On...
Oct 04, 2024•2 hr 2 min•Ep. 66
Get access to The Backroom Exclusive podcasts by becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime In this episode of 1Dime Radio, I am joined again by the Hegelian philosopher Dr. Cadell Last, founder of the educational YouTube channel and platform called PhilosophyPortal (which has plenty of fantastic introductory lectures and podcasts on theory and philosophy). In this episode, we discuss the notion of “Christian Atheism” popularized by Slavoj Zizek and pioneered by Hegel. Cadel Last’s u...
Sep 20, 2024•1 hr 51 min•Ep. 65
Get access to The Backroom Exclusive episodes on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime In this episode of 1Dime Radio, I am joined by Keegan Kjeldsen, host of The Nietzsche Podcast/Untimely Reflections , to talk about the powerful complementary insights between Nietzsche and Machiavelli, as well as other thinkers such as Karl Marx and Ibn Khaldun. We also discuss the ways in which Nietzsche's work is often misunderstood, appropriated, or diluted by people on the right and left. In The Bac...
Sep 11, 2024•1 hr 49 min•Ep. 64
Get access to The Backroom Exclusive podcasts by becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime In this episode of 1Dime Radio, I am joined by Victor Bruzzone of the Pill Pod (Plastic Pills Podcast) to discuss forms of radical democracy such as Sortition - “the lot system” in which representatives are selected at random by lottery. It was used in Ancient Athens and for a time also in the Republics of Florence, Venice and Genoa. Sortition is not the same thing as “direct democracy,” such ...
Sep 03, 2024•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 63
Get access to The Backroom EXCLUSIVE podcast by becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime In this episode of 1Dime Radio, I am joined once again by the Marxist philosopher Daniel Tutt to talk about his book Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Family . In his book, Daniel Tutt presents critiques of both Family Abolitionists and provides a critical history of the modern nuclear family and how it changed under capitalism. He engages with the theories of Christopher Lasch, Jaques Lac...
Aug 27, 2024•1 hr 43 min•Ep. 62
Get access to The Backroom exclusive podcast by becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime This episode of the 1Dime Radio podcast is all about the specifics of planning the economy under Socialism. For this episode, I am joined by Ferdia O'Driscoll , founder of Bright Age and Beyond and the YouTube channel formerly known as " After The Oligarchy ." Ferida is also a co-founder of The International Network for Democratic Economic Planning . Check out his YouTube channel: https://www...
Aug 20, 2024•2 hr 14 min•Ep. 61
Get access to The Backroom exclusive podcast by becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime In this episode of 1Dime Radio I am joined by Plastic Pills , the theory Youtuber/philosopher extraordinaire who has some of the best and most artistic videos on philosophy, theory, and politics. I know the title says “postmodern neomarxism”, and we do talk about that, but in this conversation Pills and I talk about a bunch of random stuff. It's been a highly requested collab, and I have been ta...
Aug 02, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 60
Get access to the Backroom exclusive Podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime In this episode of the 1Dime Radio podcast, political theorist Benjamin Studebaker comes on to discuss his book titled " The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy: The Way is Shut " Benjamin Studebaker got his PhD in Politics and International Studies from the University of Cambridge and he teaches contemporary political theory and the history of political thought. In the backroom segment on Patreon titled ...
Jul 26, 2024•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 59
F.D Signifier comes on the show to discuss the Kendrick Lamar vs Drake rap beef and his upcoming video on it. This episode may be a bit of a departure from the usual content you see on the 1Dime Radio podcast as of late, but FD Signifier and I are both hip-hop heads and have admired each other’s work for quite a while now, so this collab has been a long time coming! Check out FD SIgnifier’s video essays: https://www.youtube.com/@FDSignifire Check out my video essays on the 1Dime channel: The Cul...
Jul 19, 2024•57 min•Ep. 58
Get access to the Exclusive Backroom Podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime In this episode of the 1Dime Radio podcast, I am joined by Donald Parkinson , chief editor of Cosmonaut Magazine and Member of the Marxist Unity Group . Donald and I discuss the strategy of socialist organizing today in America, Democratic Socialists of America ( the DSA ), the prospect of starting a new socialist party, and what the Left’s relationship to The Democrats should be. In the backroom podcast on ...
Jul 05, 2024•1 hr 39 min•Ep. 57
Support the show and get access to exclusive podcast episodes on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime In this episode of the 1Dime Radio podcast, I am joined by Steve Grumbine, founder of the RealProgressives non-profit and host of the Macro N Cheese podcast , a podcast focused on Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) and left history. In this episode, we discuss why Universal Basic Services (UBS) is a better policy than Universal Basic Income (UBI). Check out the Macro N Cheese podcast: https:...
Jun 21, 2024•48 min•Ep. 55
Support the show and get access to the Part 2 early on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime In this episode of the 1Dime Radio podcast, I am joined by Steve Grumbine, founder of the RealProgressives non-profit and host of the Macro N Cheese podcast , a podcast focused on Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) and left history. In this episode, we discuss the problems with modern Social Democracy and the Democratic Socialist movement (embodied in the DSA in America) and why social democrats and propone...
Jun 14, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 54
Listen to the Part 2 "MAGA Communism" episode in The Backroom exclusive podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime In this episode of the 1Dime Radio podcast, I am joined by the theorist, writer, and Marxist podcast veteran C. Derick Varn (Who runs the podcast channel " Varn Vlog ") to discuss the complicated, bizarre history of certain tendencies on the contemporary Western left, such as neo-Stalinism, Dengism, old and new Maoism, Trotskyism, and "MAGA Communism." We also discuss the h...
May 30, 2024•1 hr 40 min•Ep. 53
Get access to Part 2 (the backroom) and other exclusive episodes on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime In this episode of the 1Dime Radio podcast, I am joined by Chris Cutrone , the provocative Marxist intellectual and founder of the Platypus Affiliated Society , to discuss his older essay titled " Lenin's Liberalism." and the history of the relationship between Marxism and Liberalism more broadly. 0:00 Intro 7:44 A Brief History of Liberalism 26:38 Marx on Liberalism 34:08 Bourgeois socie...
May 17, 2024•1 hr 54 min•Ep. 52
Get access to exclusive podcasts (the backroom) by becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime In this episode of the 1Dime Radio podcast, I am joined by Cadell Last, philosopher and founder of PhilosophyPortal to discuss Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's political philosophy and his famous text on The Philosophy of Right titled “Elements of the Philosophy of Right.” We focus on Hegel’s controversial theory of Freedom, the State, and how it can help us navigate the contemporary political la...
May 10, 2024•1 hr 44 min•Ep. 51
This is Part 2 of my podcast with Marxist Historian James Vaughn on the American Revolution Part 3 on Marx's Liberalism is exclusive for Patrons only: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/1DimeOfficial?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor Read more with Speechify: https://speechify.com/?source=fb-for-mobile&via=1Dime James Vaughn is a Marxist historian and professor at the University of Chicago. We discuss the history of the Americ...
May 01, 2024•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 50
Get access to Part 2 and exclusive episodes on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime In this episode of the 1Dime Radio podcast, I am joined by James Vaughn , a Marxist historian at the University of Chicago, to discuss the history of the American Revolution and what people on the left tend to get wrong about it. James explains how the "progressive" narrative of the American Revolution differs from the classical Marxist position on the American Revolution and the history of bourgeois revoluti...
Apr 24, 2024•1 hr 56 min•Ep. 49
Get access to Part 2 (the backroom) and other exclusive episodes on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime In this episode of the 1Dime Radio Podcast, I am joined by Elijah Emery to provide a short guide to the thought of Christopher Lasch, a theorist most known for books such as "The Culture of Narcissism", "The Minimal Self", and "Revolt of the Elites." We also discuss his other works, such as "Haven and Heartless World" , "True and Only Heaven: Progress and its Critics", The New Radicalism ...
Apr 14, 2024•51 min•Ep. 48
Support 1Dime on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime In this episode of 1Dime Radio, I am joined by Professor Andrew Feenberg, a former student of Herbert Marcuse and an American philosopher of technology and continental philosophy at Simon Fraser University. He is the author of numerous books, such as “The Philosophy Of Praxis: Marx, Lukács And The Frankfurt School” and most recently: “ The Ruthless Critique of Everything Existing: Nature and Revolution in Marcuse's Philosophy of Praxis .”...
Mar 27, 2024•2 hr 11 min•Ep. 47
Part 2 (The Backroom), on The Possibility of Overcoming Myth is available exclusively on Patreon for 1Dime Patrons: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime This week's episode is all about the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory and the classic book "Dialectic of Enlightenment" By Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer. For this installment of 1Dime Radio, I am joined by Mike Watson, a professor, writer, and co-founder of Revol Press . We discuss the significance of 'Dialectic of the Enlightenment' and break...
Mar 22, 2024•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 46
Get access to Part 2 (the backroom) and other exclusive episodes on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime This week's instalment of the 1Dime Radio podcast is all about the work and life of Political Theorist Sheldon Wolin, author of books such as "Politics and Vision," and "Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism," his most famous book - heavily popularized by Chris Hedges. For this episode, I am joined by Terry Maley, a professor of Political Th...
Mar 15, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 45
Get access to Part 2 (the backroom) and other exclusive episodes on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime In this episode, David McKerracher (Dave), founder of Theory Underground , joins me to discuss the core ideas of his book " TIMEENERGY : Why You Have No Time or Energy." In this enriching discussion, Dave and I discuss his concept of “Timenergy,” and its relation to various topics such as free time, otium, leisure, labor, automation, slavery, the school system, the PMC, and how the ideas ...
Mar 11, 2024•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 44
Listen to the second half (the backroom podcast) and other exclusive episodes on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime In this episode of the 1Dime Radio Podcast, I am here with Joshua Dávila (Aka The Blockchain Socialist, who hosts The Blockchain Socialist podcast and the Blockchain Socialist blog . He also is the founder of the Breadchain co-operative, which we will talk about later. Joshua recently published a wonderful book titled “ Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and Ho...
Mar 04, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 43
Listen to Part 2 (the backroom) and other exclusive episodes on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/OneDime In this episode of the 1Dime Radio podcast, I am joined by Professor Sabah Alnasseri, a professor of Middle Eastern Studies at York University, to discuss Ibn Khaldun and his classic text, The Muqaddimah . In particular, we discuss Ibn Khaldun's similarities with Karl Marx as a social scientist and a proto-historical materialist. Sabbah and I share a Marxist interpretation of The Muqaddima...
Feb 26, 2024•58 min•Ep. 42
Get access to Part 2 and more exclusive episodes on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime This episode of the 1Dime Radio podcast is all about the ideas of Ibn Khaldun and his classic text The Muqaddimah . Simultaneously a philosopher and a historian, and often considered to be "the first sociologist," Ibn Khaldun was among the first proper "social scientists" to develop a "science of society" - something quite close to what we today call "historical materialism." What insights can the work o...
Feb 15, 2024•1 hr 52 min•Ep. 41
Part 2 on the Socialist Transition is available on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime In this episode of 1Dime Radio, I am joined by the Marxist theorist Ted Reese to discuss his book 'Socialism or Extinction'. We discuss Marxist crisis theory/ “breakdown theory” and Karl Marx’s theory of the “tendency of the rate of profit to fall” in capitalism, elaborated by Henryk Grossman. Ted Reese discusses the “final contradictions” of capitalism, such as automation, the ecological crisis, and the...
Feb 08, 2024•57 min•Ep. 40
Part 2 is available on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime In this episode of 1Dime Radio, I am joined by Matt McManus, political theorist and professor at the University of Michigan who is currently writing a book titled “The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism” and has been the author of various books such as “Postmodern Conservatism” and is a frequent contributor to Jacobin Magazine. He is also a co-ost of the Academic Edgelords podcast. I first found Matt through the Diet Soap Media p...
Jan 25, 2024•1 hr•Ep. 39
