We're joined by philosopher, cultural critic and political theorist Gabriel Rockhill to discuss: The CIA & Congress for Cultural Freedom, Intellectual commodity fetishism, the distribution of ideas, the compatible left, actually existing socialism, cultural production, the war for hearts and minds, information war on China, petty-bourgeois melancholia (the PMC politics of despair), institutional inertia/uplift, and more!Read Gabriel's recent article The CIA & The Frankfurt School's Anti-Communism: https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/the-cia-the-frankfurt-schools-anti-communism/Follow on twitter: @GabrielRockhillFor more information: https://gabrielrockhill.com