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Diet Soap - a podcast

Diet Soap - a podcast

By: Douglas Lain
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The Diet Soap podcast began in 2009 in response to the economic crisis of 2008. Since then it has gone through many transformations, including becoming the podcast for a critical theory imprint out of the UK.

Today the Diet Soap podcast is running under its original name for Sublation Media.

Sublation Media includes a book publishing effort for critical theory and left politics, a magazine that covers current events and theoretical issues, youtube videos on theory and politics, and finally the Diet Soap podcast. The podcast is where we continue to interrogate the left and each other while having a good time.Copyright 2026 Douglas Lain Philosophy Social Sciences
Episodes
  • Episode 700: Wagner the Revolutionary

    Episode 700: Wagner the Revolutionary
    Jul 18 2026

    Jim Igor, aka The Perfect Wagnerite, discusses the contradictions and revolutionary potential of Wagner's operas. He argues that Wagner represents both the ambition towards freedom and the self-defeat of the bourgeois revolution.

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    1 hr and 24 mins
  • Episode 701: Spencer Leonard on the Jacobins

    Episode 701: Spencer Leonard on the Jacobins
    Jul 31 2026

    In this episode of the Spencer Leonard Hour, the professor of Marxism discusses why commies prefer the French Revolution to the American Revolution.

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    1 hr and 15 mins
  • Episode 702: Why Has Elite Theory Captured the Left?

    Episode 702: Why Has Elite Theory Captured the Left?
    Aug 7 2026

    Chris Cutrone and Douglas Lain discuss Cutrone's essay: "Was Lenin PMC?"
    In this podcast, they discuss how James Burnham's work on the managerial revolution and his conservatism infected and directed left discourse.

    Was Lenin PMC? by Chris Cutrone
    https://www.sublationmag.com/post/was-lenin-pmc-how-elite-theory-doesn-t-fit-the-movement-for-socialism
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    1 hr and 13 mins
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