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Tony of 1Dime
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1Dime Radio is a podcast about politics, philosophy, theory, history, and political economy hosted by Tony, a political theorist and founder of the YouTube channel "1Dime." For access to the Patreon exclusive episodes (The Backroom podcast), become a Patron: thttps://www.patreon.com/OneDime

  1. Marxism in Defence of The West (Ft. Ralph Leonard)

    5d ago

    Marxism in Defence of The West (Ft. Ralph Leonard)

    Get access to The Backroom (100+ exclusive episodes) on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime On this episode of 1Dime Radio, I sit down with British-Nigerian writer Ralph Leonard to ask what it even means to be a Marxist today, after the political fallout of the 20th century. Ralph describes himself as a “conservative Marxist,” which sounds like a contradiction until you realize that one of the core questions in this conversation is whether socialism, properly understood, is not the worship of capitalist progress but a defense of society against capital’s destructive acceleration. We get into Marxism’s roots in the Enlightenment, liberalism, and the Western political tradition, why Marxism is in many ways a radicalization of Western values rather than a rejection of them, and how Stalinism distorted Marxism into a state-worshipping ideology that dismissed freedom and democracy as “bourgeois” illusions. We also discuss race as ideology, decolonization theory, nationalism, Zionism, the USSR, and whether its failures were historically necessary or politically avoidable. In the exclusive Backroom, Ralph and I talk about whether world revolution was ever plausible and why I see Marxist internationalism as the doctrine’s fatal flaw. We explore how left-wing localism inadvertently helped create the conditions for fascism, why civic nationalism may be the only coherent path for a democratic left, and the hard limits of multiculturalism exposed by Canada’s immigration crisis. Timestamps: 00:00:00 The Backroom Sneak Peek 00:03:53 Introduction to Conservative Marxism 00:17:30 Marxism, Enlightenment and the State 00:33:00 Western Values and Decolonial Critiques 00:55:20 Historical Necessity or Preventable Atrocity 01:14:15 Race, Culture and Western Identity 01:24:43 Zionism Opposed to Liberalism GUEST: Ralph Leonard • Ralph’s writing at UnHerd: https://unherd.com/author/ralph-leonard/ Ralph’s Twitter: https://x.com/buffsoldier_96 FOLLOW 1Dime: • Substack (Articles and Essays): https://1dimereview.substack.com/ • X/Twitter: https://x.com/1DimeOfficial • Instagram: instagram.com/1dimeman • Check out my main channel videos: https://www.youtube.com/@1Dimee Leave a like, drop a comment, and give the show a 5-star rating on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you listen to this. Tags: #Marxism  #Socialism #TheWest #TheEnlightenment  #WesternCivilization

    1h 37m
  2. Castration Culture (Ft. Theory Underground)

    May 22

    Castration Culture (Ft. Theory Underground)

    Get access to The Backroom (100+ exclusive episodes) on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime On this episode of 1Dime Radio, regular guest, David McKerracher and I talk about his new Substack article The Natality Pill. Part of this discussion includes the concepts of castration culture, and the Liberal Rumspringa. We trace how secular adolescence, PMC institutions, and marketized intimacy sever people from natality, tradition, and each other. We also touch on midwifery’s suppression and left‑wing self‑sabotage. In The Backroom on Patreon Dave and I  discuss the controversial questions of Race, Sex, Gender and all of the topics woke white liberals never like to go near.  Timestamps: 0:00 The Backroom Preview: The Lesson of Bernie Sanders 3:53 Introduction            06:28 Natality Pill and Wanting Kids 12:33 From Kibbutz to Liberal Rumspringa 50:24 Bernie Bends the Knee 57:10 Privilege Stack and Literalists 01:19:58 Castration Culture Explained 01:24:25 Parents, Patriarchy, and Growing Up FOLLOW 1Dime: • Substack (Articles and Essays): https://1dimereview.substack.com/ • X/Twitter: https://x.com/1DimeOfficial • Instagram: instagram.com/1dimeman • Check out my main channel videos: https://www.youtube.com/@1Dimee GUEST: Dave — Theory Underground • Check out the Theory Underground YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@theory_underground • Check out the Underground Theory Book (Im in it too!) : https://www.amazon.com/Underground-Theory-David-McKerracher/dp/B0CH2CXSGN Checkout Dave’s Substack: https://substack.com/@theoryunderground?r=2sschq&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=stories&shareImageVariant=blur Leave a like, drop a comment, and give the show a 5-star rating on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you listen to this.

    1h 37m
  3. AI and The End of Capitalism (Ft. Ted Reece)

    May 15

    AI and The End of Capitalism (Ft. Ted Reece)

    Get access to The Backroom (100+ exclusive episodes) on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime On this episode of 1Dime Radio, I am joined once again by Marxist writer Ted Reese, author of Socialism or Extinction and Abundant Material Wealth For All, for a wide-ranging conversation on AI, automation, capitalist breakdown, Marxism, technology, falling profit rates, monopoly, food, health, and the possibility of socialism in the 21st century. Ted argues that capitalism is not simply politically or morally bad, but increasingly obsolete on its own economic terms. As automation, AI, and productivity push commodity values down, capitalism responds through monopoly, rent-seeking, militarized technology, state dependency, and new forms of social enclosure. We discuss Henryk Grossman, Marx’s theory of capitalist breakdown, whether AI makes Marxism more relevant or obsolete, why the left should not become anti-technology, and whether socialism could emerge through a more peaceful transition rather than a romanticized fantasy of violent revolution. In the Backroom episode on Patreon, Ted and I continue the conversation with a debate on immigration. I challenge the standard Marxist perspective on migration and argue that mass migration under capitalism is not a path toward international socialism, but a system tied to global capital mobility, labor discipline, brain drain, and the weakening of working-class political organization. We debate whether the current migration regime brings us closer to socialism or further away from it. Timestamps: 00:00 The Backroom Preview: How Immigration Stops Socialism 03:17  1Dime Radio Intro 04:17  Introducing Ted Reese 06:37  Abundant Material Wealth For All 09:13  Can Socialism Happen Peacefully? 14:22  International Revolution, National Politics, and Capitalist Breakdown 16:23  Automation, AI, and Why Capitalism Becomes Obsolete 23:53  Falling Profit Rates and Capitalist Decline 27:00  Monopoly, Mergers, and the “Final Merger” 30:09  AI, Robots, Neo-Feudalism, and Capitalism’s Demand Problem 36:53  Technology, Progress, and the Anti-Luddite Left 42:47  Palantir, Militarized Tech, and State-Capitalist Dependency 49:01  Why AI Will Get More Expensive 55:46  Is Marxism Obsolete in the Age of AI? 58:21  Capitalism, Food, Health, and Human Decay 01:03:50  Get the Second Half in The Backroom GUEST: Ted Reese • X/Twitter: https://x.com/Grossmanite • Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/grossmanite • Linktree: https://linktr.ee/grossmanite • Abundant Material Wealth For All: https://grossmanite.medium.com/new-book-abundant-material-wealth-for-all-out-now-7d1ec5e9ac05 FOLLOW 1Dime: • Substack (Articles and Essays): https://1dimereview.substack.com/ • X/Twitter: https://x.com/1DimeOfficial • Instagram: instagram.com/1dimeman • Check out my main channel videos: https://www.youtube.com/@1Dimee Leave a like, drop a comment, and give the show a 5-star rating on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you listen to this.

    1h 6m
  4. The Right After Trump (Ft. Benjamin Teitelbaum)

    May 8

    The Right After Trump (Ft. Benjamin Teitelbaum)

    Get access to The Backroom (100+ exclusive episodes) on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime Professor Benjamin Teitelbaum joins 1Dime Radio to discuss the right after Trump. Teitelbaum is an ethnographer, scholar of radical politics, and author of War for Eternity and Lions of the North. In this episode, we discuss Steve Bannon, Alexander Dugin, Traditionalism, the tech right, Peter Thiel, Curtis Yarvin, Nick Land, Nick Fuentes, the abuse of the word “fascism,” and whether a coherent post-Trump right is emerging from the ruins of MAGA. In this episode of The Public, Benjamin gives his analysis of the different factions on the political Right. In The Backroom on Patreon, Benjamin and I discuss the FUTURE of the “dissident right” and populism AFTER Trump. Timestamps: 00:00:00  Backroom Preview: The Far Right Is Not Going Away 00:03:26  1Dime Radio Intro 00:04:28  Experience Interviewing Steve Bannon and Studying the Far-Right 00:11:26  What Does Steve Bannon Actually Believe? 00:15:10  Bannon vs Dugin 00:25:13  Ideology, Geopolitics, and Opportunism 00:29:40  What Is Traditionalism? 00:39:07  The Conservative Right vs the Futurist Tech Right 00:42:42  Curtis Yarvin, Hierarchy, and the Tech Right 00:48:41  Democracy, Socialism, and the Distribution of Power 00:55:12  Is “Fascism” a Useful Label? 01:07:13  Nick Fuentes 01:17:31  What Is MAGA Without Trump? Continue in The Backroom GUEST: Benjamin Teitelbaum Associate Professor of Musicology and International Affairs at the University of Colorado Boulder • Benjamin Teitelbaum at CU Boulder: https://www.colorado.edu/center/benson/benjamin-teitelbaum • War for Eternity: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/315812/war-for-eternity-by-teitelbaum-benjamin-r/9780141992037 • Lions of the North: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/lions-of-the-north-9780190212605 FOLLOW 1Dime: • Substack (Articles and Essays): https://1dimereview.substack.com/ • X/Twitter: https://x.com/1DimeOfficial • Instagram: instagram.com/1dimeman • Check out my main channel videos: https://www.youtube.com/@1Dimee Leave a like, drop a comment, and give the show a 5-star rating on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you listen to this.

    1h 20m
  5. The Transhumanist Tendency (Ft Ashley Frawley)

    May 1

    The Transhumanist Tendency (Ft Ashley Frawley)

    Get access to The Backroom, 100+ exclusive episodes, on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime In this episode of 1Dime Radio, I am joined by Ashley Frawley, sociologist, senior editor at Compact, COO of Sublation Media, visiting researcher at the University of Kent, and author of Semiotics of Happiness and Significant Emotions. We discuss her Compact essay “How Society Got a Sex Change,” the rise of the “trans subject” as the ideal subject of contemporary capitalism, and why gender ideology should not simply be understood as a culture war distraction, but as part of the class war itself. This conversation covers the politics of vulnerability, therapy culture, indigenous identity, “healing” discourse, the feminization of the ideal worker, faux feminism, the role of NGOs and international institutions, the EU’s promotion of gender ideology, and why the contemporary ruling class increasingly prefers subjects who are fluid, dependent on institutions, and detached from tradition. We also discuss the parallels between today’s gender panic and past moral panics, including the Satanic Panic and multiple personality disorder, and why social distress often takes culturally specific forms. The second half of this conversation is available in The Backroom on Patreon. Timestamps: 00:00:00 MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA (The Backroom Preview) 00:04:00  Introduction to Ashley Frawley 00:09:00  How Society Got a Sex Change 00:13:00  From the Masculine Subject to the Feminine Subject 00:19:00  Women, Work, and the New Spirit of Capitalism 00:25:00  Faux Feminism and the War on Motherhood 00:30:00  The Trans Subject as the Ideal Capitalist Subject 00:37:00  Institutions, IVF, and the Managed Self 00:40:00  Is Gender Ideology Being Pushed? 00:45:00  NGOs, the EU, Canada, and Progressive Policy Diffusion 00:48:00  Happiness, Therapy Culture, and Psychological Solutions to Economic Problems 00:50:00  Multiple Personality Disorder and the Satanic Panic 00:58:00  Why Some Moral Panics Travel Across Countries 01:03:00  Gender Ideology, Power, and the Good Subject 01:06:00  Preview of The Backroom on Patreon GUEST: Ashley Frawley • Ashley at Compact: https://www.compactmag.com/contributor/ashley-frawley/ • “How Society Got a Sex Change”: https://www.compactmag.com/article/how-society-got-a-sex-change/ • Ashley on X/Twitter: https://x.com/AshleyAFrawley • Ashley at Sublation: https://sublationmedia.com/author/ashley-frawley/ • Ashley’s Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AshleyAFrawley FOLLOW 1Dime: • Substack (Articles and Essays): https://1dimereview.substack.com/ • X/Twitter: https://x.com/1DimeOfficial • Instagram: instagram.com/1dimeman • Check out my main channel videos: https://www.youtube.com/@1Dimee Leave a like, drop a comment, and give the show a 5-star rating on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you listen to this.

    1h 9m
  6. The Chinese Economy (Ft. Jane Hayward)

    Apr 27

    The Chinese Economy (Ft. Jane Hayward)

    Get access to The Backroom (100+ exclusive episodes) on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDimeThis is a Backroom episode being released publicly as a window into what 1Dime patrons get regularly. Dr. Jane Hayward, Lecturer in China and Global Affairs at the Lau China Institute, King's College London, joins for an honest accounting: Trump's tariffs, labour conditions, the real estate collapse, Belt and Road, and why decades of “China is about to collapse” coverage keeps ageing poorly. Most conversations about the Chinese economy talk past the real questions. The Western press cycles through collapse predictions that never land. The online left points at high-speed rail and calls it socialism. Neither camp is seriously reckoning with what China's model actually is, what it costs workers, or what it implies geopolitically. If you have never heard a Backroom episode before, this is what over 100 exclusive conversations sound like. Become a patron for full access.Timestamps:00:00:00 Intro / 1Dime Radio Bumper00:03:22 Welcome to the Backroom00:07:01 Why So Many on the Left Romanticize China00:17:06 Labour Conditions, State-Controlled Unions, and Worker Rights00:26:22 Trump’s Tariffs: Reindustrialization Rhetoric vs. Geopolitical Containment00:39:28 Belt and Road — Is “Debt Trap Diplomacy” Real?00:52:59 China’s Real Estate Collapse Explained01:00:14 Why “China Is About to Collapse” Keeps Getting It Wrong01:09:25 Hukou Reform, Urbanization, and the Urban-Rural Divide01:13:42 Civil Society, NGOs, and Internal Policy Debate Under XiGUEST: Dr. Jane HaywardLecturer in China and Global Affairs, Lau China Institute, King’s College London• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@janehaywardchina• Website: https://www.janehaywardchina.co.uk/FOLLOW 1Dime:• Substack https://1dimereview.substack.com/• X https://x.com/1DimeOfficial• IG https://www.instagram.com/1dimeman• Channel https://www.youtube.com/@1DimeeLeave a like, drop a comment, and give the show a 5-star rating on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you listen to this.#China #ChineseEconomy #ChinaEconomy

    1h 20m
  7. Nationalist Internationalism (Ft. Cadell Last)

    Apr 17

    Nationalist Internationalism (Ft. Cadell Last)

    Get access to The Backroom (100+ exclusive episodes) on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime This week on 1Dime Radio, I’m joined once again by Dr. Cadell Last, founder of Philosophy Portal, for a deep discussion on *nationalist internationalism*, the idea that genuine internationalism actually requires nationalism as a precondition. We explore why national sovereignty, taxing the rich, immigration control, labor power, and democratic self-determination often cannot be secured by isolated states alone, but instead require serious international coordination between nations. This episode was originally a patron-only bonus episode. In the Backroom preview at the start, we also get into Nick Fuentes, the return of repressed contradictions, and the increasingly unavoidable questions around race, gender, immigration, and identity that mainstream liberals and much of the left have struggled to confront directly. Timestamps: 00:00:00  Backroom preview, race, white culture, and repressed contradictions 00:03:53  Immigration, demographic change, and the Nick Fuentes phenomenon 00:10:49  A different critique of immigration 00:14:23  Nationalist internationalism 00:18:05  Why Marxist internationalism lacks a real libidinal anchor 00:30:56  Marxism’s cultural blind spot 00:37:13  Global capitalism, assimilation, and the nation-state 00:43:03  Borders, capital flight, and international coordination 00:48:48  Religion, depoliticization, and politics as substitute faith 00:52:01  What kind of socialism can answer the meaning crisis? 00:59:27  The EU, the UN, and stronger unions against fragmentation 01:03:25  Final thoughts on nationalism and internationalism as a dialectical process GUEST: Dr. Cadell Last, Philosophy Portal • Website: https://cadelllast.com/ • Philosophy Portal: https://philosophyportal.online/about • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PhilosophyPortal • Substack: https://philosophyportal.substack.com/ • X/Twitter: https://x.com/cadellnlast FOLLOW 1Dime: • Substack: https://1dimereview.substack.com/ • X/Twitter: https://x.com/1DimeOfficial • Instagram: instagram.com/1dimeman • Check out my main channel videos: https://www.youtube.com/@1Dimee Leave a like, drop a comment, and give the show a 5-star rating on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you listen to this. Tags: #Nationalism #Internationalism  #Immigration

    1h 6m
  8. The Supranational Federation: A New World System (Ft. Benjamin Studebaker)

    Apr 10

    The Supranational Federation: A New World System (Ft. Benjamin Studebaker)

    Get access to Part 2 & The Backroom (100+ exclusive episodes) on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime In this episode of 1Dime Radio, Benjamin Studebaker returns to lay out his case for a *supranational federation*, his answer to a problem that keeps resurfacing across both left and right politics: the limits of the nation-state in a world shaped by capital mobility, capital flight, interstate competition, and war. We break down Benjamin’s six-part “Why Federalism” series, why he thinks national governments cannot meaningfully tax capital or secure lasting peace on their own, and what kind of political system he thinks would actually be necessary to move beyond today’s global deadlock. In The Backroom on Patreon, Benjamin gives his take on the phenomenon of Clavicular, looksmaxxing, dating culture, and the broader social collapse behind both. Part 2 of our conversation on the Supernational federation will also be available only on Patreon, in which I challenge Studebaker on some issues I have with his proposal.  Timestamps: 00:00:00 The Backroom preview: looksmaxxing, Clavicular, and modern dating 00:03:11  Benjamin Studebaker returns, Why Federalism, and the limits of the nation-state 00:07:31  How competition makes political systems converge 00:10:37  From military competition to commercial competition 00:15:24  Why fear-based internationalism fails 00:20:20  Why even nationalist goals now require supranational politics 00:29:58  The democratic vs technocratic split 00:35:18  The Chamber of Labor and the Chamber of Status 00:42:25  Tribune, First Citizen, and global executive power 00:45:31  How could a supranational federation actually emerge? 00:51:01  Healthcare, universities, and organizing around concrete issues 01:08:56  Capital mobility, tax competition, and why national solutions get undercut 01:19:55  Medicare for All, capital, and the limits of monetary sovereignty alone 01:25:01  Why China has to be part of the project 01:30:04  Can nation-states build this, or would they sabotage it? 01:40:30  Why the left needs a positive vision, not just critique 01:48:24  Issue-based organizing, consumer unions, and a new political framework GUEST: Benjamin Studebaker, political theorist, PHD from Cambridge, author of The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy: The Way Is Shut and Legitimacy in Liberal Democracies • Website: https://benjaminstudebaker.com/ • X/Twitter: https://x.com/BMStudebaker • The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy: https://link.springer.com/book/9783031950087 • Legitimacy in Liberal Democracies: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-legitimacy-in-liberal-democracies.html • Why Federalism, Part 1, The Problem that Needs to Be Solved: https://www.streitcouncil.org/post/why-federalism-the-problem-that-needs-to-be-solved • Why Federalism, Part 2, Creating the Cataracts: https://www.streitcouncil.org/post/why-federalism-creating-the-cataracts • Why Federalism, Part 3, The Unit Question: https://www.streitcouncil.org/post/why-federalism-the-unit-question • Why Federalism, Part 4, On Citizenship: https://www.streitcouncil.org/post/why-federalism-on-citizenship • Why Federalism, Part 5, On the Role of China: https://www.streitcouncil.org/post/why-federalism-on-the-role-of-china • Why Federalism, Part 6, The Conclusion: https://www.streitcouncil.org/post/why-federalism-the-conclusion FOLLOW 1Dime: • My Substack (Articles and Essays): https://1dimereview.substack.com/ • X/Twitter: https://x.com/1DimeOfficial • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/1dimeman • Check out my main channel videos: https://www.youtube.com/@1Dimee Leave a like, drop a comment, and give the show a 5-star rating on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you listen to this.

    1h 55m
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1Dime Radio is a podcast about politics, philosophy, theory, history, and political economy hosted by Tony, a political theorist and founder of the YouTube channel "1Dime." For access to the Patreon exclusive episodes (The Backroom podcast), become a Patron: thttps://www.patreon.com/OneDime

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  • Creator
    Tony of 1Dime
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    136
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © Tony of 1Dime
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