Diet Soap - a podcast Douglas Lain

Deep State Kuba and Stefan Bertram Lee discuss the state of the war in Ukraine and speculate that the Ukrainian counter-offensive may have changed the outcome of the war. Certainly Russia has lost the special military action. What will come next given that Putin has upgraded the conflict to a war officially and is mobilizing more Russian forces? 

Conrad Hamilton and Eliot Rosenstock discuss the history and rebirth of the Sublation Socialists Facebook Group. This is an episode where some dirty laundry is aired in public. Check out Sublation Socialistshttps://www.facebook.com/groups/61364...Support Us on Patreonhttps://patreon.com/dietsoap

Chris Cutrone stops by to discuss his essay for Compact magazine entitled "Bourgeois Heroes." Cutrone approaches the Netflix original series Ozark from the perspective of a paranoid critic, or a critic who, in Adorno's words: "overestimates its object and exaggerates its meaning, using the microcosm of the cultural phenomenon to illuminate the surrounding social world."Bourgeois Heroes by Chris Cutronehttps://compactmag.com/article/bourgeois-heroesSupport Us on Patreonhttps://patreon.com/dietsoap

Anarchist podcaster Cyber Dandy joins Douglas Lain for a special edition of the Diet Soap podcast. They discuss the British Wing of the Situationist International, why it was that situationists were beloved by anarchists in the UK, and how the relationship between Debord's small Marxist sect and the long struggle for socialism. 

 In this episode of Diet Soap, the author and youtube star Ben Burgis joins Douglas Lain to discuss the impasse that the left faces today. Has the left been absorbed by the democratic party for good? Can the left figure out how to intervene and stop an existential catastrophe in Ukraine? Is there any prospect for an independent and radical socialist movement after COVID? 

Jensen Suther is the author of "Spirit Disfigured," and in this episode of Diet Soap Suther explains why Adorno developed "negative dialectics" after the German revolution failed in 1918. Suther also discusses Adorno's understanding of Schoenberg and of Samuel Beckett.