1Dime Radio
1Dime Radio
Tony of 1Dime
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
The Forgotten Left Economics Tradition (Ft. Peter Ryan)
Get access to The Backroom (100+ exclusive episodes of 1Dime Radio) on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDimeIn 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.You can listen to 1Dime Radio on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get podcasts.Timestamps:0:00 The Backroom Preview: Nationalism Against Imperialism3:52 1Dime Radio Intro4:50 Peter Ryan and the Forgotten Economic Tradition15:07 Karl Marx Versus Friedrich List22:57 MMT and the Forgotten History of Monetary Sovereignty34:05 Beyond Libertarianism: Why State Capacity Matters46:43 Who Controls the State?57:02 Friedrich List and the Carey School1:07:26 War, Industry, and America’s Protectionist Turn1:15:50 Matthew and Henry Carey1:27:27 Henry Carey, Lincoln, and Marx1:34:06 Nationalist Internationalism and The BackroomGUEST: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-chamasBOOKS DISCUSSED:* Roman Szporluk, Communism and Nationalism: Karl Marx Versus Friedrich Listhttps://books.google.com/books?id=8BfoCwAAQBAJ* Friedrich List, The National System of Political Economyhttps://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/lloyd-the-national-system-of-political-economy* Ha-Joon Chang, Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspectivehttps://anthempress.com/books/kicking-away-the-ladder-pb* Ha-Joon Chang, Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalismhttps://hajoonchang.net/writingsPETER 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-diseaseRELATED ESSAY:* “Nationalist Internationalism: The Case for Nationalism Beyond the Nation-State”https://1dimereview.substack.com/p/nationalist-internationalismFOLLOW 1Dime:* 1Dime Radio YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/@1dimeradio* Substack: https://1dimereview.substack.com/* X/Twitter: https://x.com/1DimeOfficial* Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tonyof1dime/* Main 1Dime YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@1DimeeLeave a like, comment, and subscribe. Give 1Dime Radio a 5-star rating on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen.
Sep 4
1 hr 37 min
The American Revolution: A Revolution Unfinished
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.Get access to The Backroom, with 100+ exclusive episodes of 1Dime Radio, on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDimeIn 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.Read the written essay: https://1dimereview.substack.com/p/the-american-revolution-a-revolutionYou can listen to 1Dime Radio on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get podcasts.Timestamps:0:00 The American Revolution: A Revolution Unfinished0:12 Should We Reclaim the Legacy of 1776?3:29 A Contradictory Legacy: Neither Saints nor Villains13:00 Why Claim the Revolution?27:06 The Unfinished Revolution31:13 Footnotes/CitationsFOLLOW 1Dime:1Dime Radio YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/@1dimeradioSubstack: https://1dimereview.substack.com/X/Twitter: https://x.com/1DimeOfficialInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/tonyof1dime/Main 1Dime YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@1DimeeLeave a like, comment, and subscribe. Give 1Dime Radio a 5-star rating on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen.
Aug 31
33 min
The Post-Woke Age?: Mamdani, AI Job Loss, & the "Vibe Shift"
Get access to The Backroom, with 100+ exclusive episodes of 1Dime Radio, on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDimeThis 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.Read the written essay: https://1dimereview.substack.com/p/the-next-awokeningYou can listen to 1Dime Radio on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get podcasts.Timestamps:0:00 The Post-Woke Age7:46 Is Woke Dead, or Is It Coming Back?14:00 The Vibe Shift19:47 AI and the Fifth Awokening26:52 Elite Overproduction in STEM32:59 The FIRE Industries and Bullshit Jobs34:41 Blue-Collar Workers and the Producer Class44:12 The Appeal of Neoreaction46:52 Is There a Woke Right?52:48 Rise of Class Politics Across Left and Right55:46 Don’t Mess With the Zohran1:08:59 Why Mamdani Won1:13:39 It’s Not Just Optics. It’s About Truth1:16:43 Anti-Left Propaganda Works Because Leftists Are the Propaganda1:21:56 Why the Left Is Slow to Learn1:28:19 Israel and Palestine1:35:39 Bibliography/FootnotesFOLLOW 1Dime:1Dime Radio YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/@1dimeradioSubstack: https://1dimereview.substack.com/X/Twitter: https://x.com/1DimeOfficialInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/tonyof1dime/Main 1Dime YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@1DimeeLeave a like, comment, and subscribe. Give 1Dime Radio a 5-star rating on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen.
Aug 25
2 hr 12 min
Marxism vs Elite Theory (Ft. Chris Cutrone)
Get access to The Backroom (100+ exclusive episodes) on Patreon: [https://www.patreon.com/OneDime](https://www.patreon.com/OneDime)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.You can listen to 1Dime Radio on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get podcasts.Timestamps:0:00 The Backroom Preview: Graham Platner and #MeToo4:12 1Dime Radio Intro5:10 Marxism vs. Elite Theory13:42 The 20% vs. the 80%18:15 Is the Left Actually Left?22:50 Marxism and Liberal Democracy30:01 What Elite Theory Explains36:34 Theory, Strategy, and Practice41:03 The Synthetic Left and Family Abolition51:26 Marxism as the Critique of Socialism59:20 Intellectuals, Class, and the PMC66:15 Elite Overproduction and Academia74:16 What Is Marxism For?78:28 In What Sense Is Cutrone a Marxist?1:25:48 Join Us in The BackroomGUEST:Chris Cutrone | Founder of the Platypus Affiliated Society* Chris Cutrone’s website: [https://chriscutrone.platypus1917.org/](https://chriscutrone.platypus1917.org/)* Platypus Affiliated Society: [https://platypus1917.org/](https://platypus1917.org/)* “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)FOLLOW 1Dime:* 1Dime Radio YouTube channel: [https://youtube.com/@1dimeradio](https://youtube.com/@1dimeradio)* Substack: [https://1dimereview.substack.com/](https://1dimereview.substack.com/)* X/Twitter: [https://x.com/1DimeOfficial](https://x.com/1DimeOfficial)* Instagram: [https://www.instagram.com/tonyof1dime/](https://www.instagram.com/tonyof1dime/)* Main 1Dime YouTube channel: [https://www.youtube.com/@1Dimee](https://www.youtube.com/@1Dimee)Leave a like, comment, and subscribe. Give 1Dime Radio a 5-star rating on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen.
Aug 21
1 hr 27 min
The Culture War is The Class War: A Theory of the Two Lefts
Get access to The Backroom, with 100+ exclusive episodes of 1Dime Radio, on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDimeThis 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.You can listen to 1Dime Radio on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get podcasts.Timestamps:0:00 The Culture War IS the Class War: A Theory of the Two Lefts2:12 Memory-Holing Wokeism7:44 Culture War Is Class War13:54 The Lesson of Bernie Sanders, 2016–202016:17 The Day Sanders Stood Still34:19 The Left’s Civil War41:26 A Theory of the Two Lefts51:37 The Left Unity Trap53:24 The Hard Truth Most Old Leftists Don’t Want to Admit56:26 How Pseudo-Radicalism Masks the Divide Between the Two Lefts1:05:37 If Wokeism Is So Fringe, Then Why Doesn’t the Left Reject It?1:09:29 Wokeism as a Paper Tiger1:12:28 Why Accommodating Woke Fails1:15:39 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 Revolution1:31:40 The Gender Wars Were Waged by the Wokes and Rejected by the Right1:36:47 Why Ignoring Culture War Enables Wokeism1:38:16 “No War but Class War” Is a Lazy Cop-Out1:41:30 What Discourse Is For1:45:42 Conclusion: The Class War Is Inseparable from the Culture WarFOLLOW 1Dime:1Dime Radio YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/@1dimeradioSubstack: https://1dimereview.substack.com/X/Twitter: https://x.com/1DimeOfficialInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/tonyof1dime/Main 1Dime YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@1DimeeLeave a like, comment, and subscribe. Give 1Dime Radio a 5-star rating on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen.
Aug 19
1 hr 49 min
Beyond Left Populism (Ft. Daniel Tutt)
Get access to The Backroom (100+ exclusive episodes) on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDimeIn 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.You can listen to 1Dime Radio on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get podcasts.Timestamps:0:00 The Backroom Preview6:15 Populism vs Marxism11:13 Recuperation, Bonapartism, and Trump19:52 Bernie Sanders and the Failure of Left Populism16:51 Populism As a Style Vs as an Ideology29:11 Populism vs. Democracy35:53 Common Sense, Gramsci, and Machiavelli43:04 Who Are the Common People?51:55 Why Marxism Attracts Intellectuals55:11 DSA, Culture War, & Immigration1:00:02 Rebuilding Class Politics1:02:16 Transition to The Backroom GUEST:Daniel Tutt | Philosopher, writer, host of Emancipations, and co-author of The People Are Not One: Socialist Strategy After Left PopulismWebsite: https://danieltutt.com/The People Are Not One: https://www.revolpress.com/people-not-oneEmancipations: https://www.youtube.com/@emancipationsFOLLOW 1Dime:1Dime Radio YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/@1dimeradioSubstack: https://1dimereview.substack.com/X/Twitter: https://x.com/1DimeOfficialInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/tonyof1dime/Main 1Dime YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@1DimeeLeave a like, comment, and subscribe. Give 1Dime Radio a 5-star rating on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen.
Aug 7
1 hr 4 min
Why Not Marxism? (Ft. Benjamin Studebaker)
Get access to The Backroom, with 100+ exclusive episodes of 1Dime Radio, on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDimeThis 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.You can listen to 1Dime Radio on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get podcasts.Timestamps:0:00 Preview: How Capitalism Ruins the Elite2:37 Intro3:35 Are We Marxists?10:43 Middle Capitalism and the New Class Structure25:14 Labor vs. the Vulnerable30:27 What Marxism Gets Right About Capitalism37:36 Marxism’s Moral and Political Blind Spot46:45 Needs, Consumer Goods, and Soviet Collapse54:38 False Needs, Christianity, and the Internet1:03:09 Pessimism, Accelerationism, and Anti-Imperialism1:06:05 Why Not Communism?1:12:01 Can Politics Exist Without the State?1:16:21 China, the WTO, and the Limits of Socialist Power1:25:01 Can Internationalism Avoid Imperialism?1:40:22 Socialist Geopolitics and the Burden of Proof1:43:17 Hear the Full Conversation on Patreon1:44:25 The True Test of a RevolutionGUEST:Benjamin Studebaker: political theorist and author of Legitimacy in Liberal DemocraciesWebsite: https://benjaminstudebaker.com/Substack: https://bmstudebaker.substack.com/Political Theory 101: https://soundcloud.com/benjamin-studebakerFOLLOW 1Dime:1Dime Radio YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/@1dimeradioSubstack: https://1dimereview.substack.com/X/Twitter: https://x.com/1DimeOfficialInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/tonyof1dime/Main 1Dime YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@1DimeeLeave a like, comment, and subscribe. Give 1Dime Radio a 5-star rating on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen.
Jul 31
1 hr 45 min
The Geneology of Wokeism by Tony of 1Dime
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.This recording is presented as a long-form audio essay for those who prefer to listen rather than read.Subscribe for more audio essays, political theory, intellectual history, cultural criticism, and long-form analysis.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 CitedFOLLOW 1Dime:1Dime Radio YouTube channel: ⁠⁠https://youtube.com/@1dimeradio⁠⁠Substack: ⁠⁠https://1dimereview.substack.com/⁠⁠X/Twitter: ⁠⁠https://x.com/1DimeOfficial⁠⁠Instagram: ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/tonyof1dime/⁠⁠Main 1Dime YouTube channel: ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@1Dimee⁠⁠Leave a like, comment, and subscribe. Give 1Dime Radio a 5-star rating on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen.
Jul 28
1 hr 58 min
The Old Left vs The DSA Today (Ft Jack Ross)
Get access to The Backroom, with 100+ exclusive episodes of 1Dime Radio, on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDimeIn 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.You can listen to 1Dime Radio on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get podcasts.Timestamps:0:00 Backroom Preview: Tankies and American Socialism2:36 Intro3:34 Jack Ross and America’s Old Left15:07 Anti-Communist Socialists and DSA 2.026:13 Norman Thomas, the New Left, and the Popular Front35:38 Woke Left, Stalinists, and Cold War Liberalism45:19 McCarthyism, Foreign Influence, and the CCP50:16 Hasan Piker and the Crisis of the Online LeftGUEST: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-ZionismThe Socialist Party of America: A Complete History: https://sublationmedia.com/product/the-socialist-party-of-america-a-complete-history/The Strange Death of American Exceptionalism: https://sublationmedia.com/product/the-strange-death-of-american-exceptionalism/Theses on Trotskyism and Neoconservatism: https://nonzionism.com/p/theses-on-trotskyism-and-neoconservatismSublation Media: https://sublationmedia.com/FOLLOW 1Dime:1Dime Radio YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/@1dimeradioSubstack: https://1dimereview.substack.com/X/Twitter: https://x.com/1DimeOfficialInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/tonyof1dime/Main 1Dime YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@1DimeeOutro Music by Karl CaseyLeave a like, comment, and subscribe. Give 1Dime Radio a 5-star rating on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen.
Jul 24
1 hr 2 min
The Post-Left (Ft. Theory Underground)
Get access to The Backroom, with 100+ exclusive episodes of 1Dime Radio, on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDimeIn 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/canonfestIn 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.You can listen to 1Dime Radio on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get podcasts.Timestamps:0:00 Backroom Preview: Why Post-Left Does Not Mean Right2:56 Intro3:53 TUCON 2026 and Post-Left Theory16:50 What Is the Post-Left?25:55 The Post-Left Is not an Ideology39:34 The Leftist Industrial Complex51:00 Where Anti-Woke Critiques Fall Short1:05:21 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** Theory Underground: https://theoryunderground.com/* 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* TUCON 2026 / CanonFest TICKETS: https://canontcg.com/canonfestFOLLOW 1Dime:* Substack: https://1dimereview.substack.com/* X: https://x.com/1DimeOfficial* Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tonyof1dime/* Main 1Dime YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@1DimeeLeave a like, comment, and subscribe. Give 1Dime Radio a 5-star rating on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen.
Jul 17
1 hr 23 min
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