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Get access to The Backroom (70+ exclusive episodes) and support 1Dime Radio: https://www.patreon.com/OneDimeIn this episode of 1Dime Radio, I’m joined by Ben Tomas of  Sisyphus55 [https://www.youtube.com/@Sisyphus55]  - a major philosophy YouTube channel that has been around for quite a long time. Ben and I discuss the online Left, audience capture, and creator burnout. We dive into how the platform economy shapes political discourse, why “LeftTube” often functions like a brand, and what it takes to create thoughtfully without becoming a hot-take machine. We explore burnout vs. purpose, streaming as pseudo-activity, theory vs. practice, and get a little bit into psychoanalysis & political philosophy. In The Backroom on Patreon, Ben and I discuss our political maturations, psychoanalysis as a toolkit for left politics, and how postmodern theory became an entry point for many while class analysis got sidelined. We also chat about the Canadian political landscape (Quebec and Alberta Separatism), on what a constructive, civic-minded nationalism could look like. Last but not least, we talk about the so-called “masculinity crisis.” Timestamps:00:00:00 The Backroom Preview: Fascist Phisyogamy00:02:32 Backroom teaser & what we dig into behind the paywall00:03:41 Who is Sisyphus 55?00:04:57 Content craft & workflow — scripts, editing, and avoiding the hot-take grind00:06:52 Grad school & clinical psych insights for creators00:10:52 Audience capture and algorithm pressure00:13:11 The online Left as “brand” — incentives, identity, and discourse00:18:22 Creator burnout on YouTube00:33:41 The Revolution Will Not Be Uploaded 00:40:23 Desire & repression 01:23:05 where to go from here & The Backroom transitionGUEST:Ben Tomas (Sisyphus 55) — philosophy/psychology YouTuber; clinical psychology PhD student; creator of The Revolution Won’t Be Livestreamed series• YouTube: @Sisyphus55• Patreon / socials: search “Sisyphus 55”• Recommended starting point: The Revolution Won’t Be Livestreamed (series)FOLLOW 1Dime:• X/Twitter: https://x.com/1DimeOfficial• Instagram: instagram.com/1dimeman• Main channel: https://www.youtube.com/@1Dimee• Substack: https://substack.com/@tonyof1dimeOutro Music by Karl CaseyGIve 1Dime a 5-Star Rating if you enjoy the show!

Get access to THE BACKROOM (70+ exclusive episodes) and support 1Dime Radio: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime In this week’s episode of 1Dime Radio, I am joined by the one and only Yugopnik [https://www.youtube.com/@YUGOPNIK] - Marxist YouTuber, Streamer, and co-host of The Deprogram Podcast [https://open.spotify.com/show/7tk1sTZDeE8p9lnxYLy4Ky?si=9b775987b53d4b42]  with JT Chapman from Second Thought and Hakim. In this episode we discuss the state of so-called “LeftTube” and “The Left YouTube Pipeline.”  We discuss Yugopniik’s funnel theory, whether he still believes in it, drama within The Online Left, Leftist infighting, and balancing theory with real-life organizing. In the two-hour Backroom episode on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/c/OneDime], Yugopnik and I dive deep into the Contrapoints drama with regard to Israel-Palestine and the left. We discuss how progressives are not always necessarily socialists, and how, in many cases, progressivism can sometimes be a barrier to socialism.  We also discuss the technicalities of the socialist strategy and how the Separation of Powers and multi-party democracy could function under socialism in order to avoid the pitfalls of past Marxist-Leninist Regimes, and what MLs today in general miss. Oh, and we also dispel some dumb rumors circulating on Reddit with regard to me and the Deprogram boys. Timestamps:  00:00 Envisioning a Socialist Society 01:35 Division of Power in Socialism 06:37 Stereotypes, Incels, and Feminism Under Capitalism 21:51 The Left YouTube Pipeline 36:08 Fascism and the Military 37:33 Leftist “Radicalization” and Organizing 43:16 Ideology and Self-Criticism 51:04 Religion, Socialism, and Conservatism 01:01:24 The Contrapoints Israel Drama  (The Backroom Transition) GUEST: Yugopnik — YouTube creator, political commentator & co‑host of The Deprogram • YouTube — https://www.youtube.com/@YUGOPNIK  • The Deprogram Podcast — https://www.youtube.com/@thedeprogram9999  • X/Twitter — @yugopnik  FOLLOW 1Dime: • X/Twitter: https://x.com/1DimeOfficial • Instagram: instagram.com/1dimeman • Main channel videos: https://www.youtube.com/@1Dimee Outro music by Karl Casey. Give 1Dime Radio a 5-star rating if you enjoy the show!

Get access to The Backroom (70+ exclusive episodes) on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime In this episode of 1Dime Radio, I’m joined by Chris Cutrone, a Marxist intellectual and founder of the Platypus Affiliated Society, to discuss his recent article making a case for “socialist unity”—not “left unity” but a socialist unity based on class unity, including working people with progressive and conservative views.  In the Backroom, I get Chris Cutrone to elaborate on what he means by his claim that “the Left is dead—long live the Left” which begs the question:  When Did the Left Die?   Timestamps: 00:00 The Backroom Preview 03:50 Chris Cutrone’s article on Socialist Unity 06:08 The Failure of The Millennial Left 08:11 The Role of Marxist and Socialist Unity 12:22 Challenges of Leftist Organizations 29:35 The Need for a Socialist Party 38:20 Class Unity vs. Ideological Unity 01:03:02The Working Class Vote 01:07:41 Electoral Politics and Movement Building 01:11:06 The Left's Identity Crisis 01:13:33 Fascism and Popular Frontism 01:19:47 Class Politics vs. Identity Politics 01:29:10 Progressive Capitalism and Its Contradictions 01:35:14 Rebuilding a Socialist Left 01:52:39 The Backroom Transition FOLLOW 1Dime: • X/Twitter: https://x.com/1DimeOfficial • Follow me on Instagram: instagram.com/1dimeman • Check out my main channel videos: https://www.youtube.com/@1Dimee Outro Music by Karl Casey Give 1DIme Radio a 5-Star Rating if you enjoy the show!

Get access to The Backroom (70+ exclusive episodes) by becoming a patron: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime In this episode, I sit down with philosophy professor turned YouTube star Michael Burns [https://www.youtube.com/@MichaelOBurns] (formerly part of the channel “Wisecrack," which recently was disbanded) to discuss the relationship between Christianity and Socialism and whether a Christian Socialism synthesis is possible in the modern day. In The Backroom aftershow, Michael and I talk about the new Pope Leo XIV, Liberation Theology, and socialist strategy in America. Become a patron at Patreon.com/OneDime if you haven't already! Timestamps: 00:00 The New Pope Leo XIV (The Backroom Preview) 03:43 Michael Burns of Wisecrack 04:56 How Christianity made Michael Socialist 07:45 New Atheism 09:20 Evangelicalism vs. Catholicism 12:37 Christianity on the left and right 20:00 Building a Socialist Coalition with Religious and Secular People 34:28 Christian Arguments for Socialism 44:40 Was Marx wrong about Religion? 49:50 Christian Atheism and Deism 59:47 Moral Relativism and Universal Truths 01:11:13  Faith and Anxiety 01:29:38 Transition to The Backroom GUEST:Michael Burns – philosopher & creator, ex-Wisecrack host• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MichaelOBurns• Twitter/X: https://x.com/michaeloburns FOLLOW 1Dime: • X/Twitter: https://x.com/1DimeOfficial • Follow me on Instagram: instagram.com/1dimeman • Check out my main channel videos: https://www.youtube.com/@1Dimee Outro Music by Karl Casey Leave a like, a comment, and a 5-star rating if you enjoyed the show!  #Christianity #Socialism #MichaelBurns #1DimeRadio #liberationTheology

Get access to The Backroom (70+ exclusive episodes) on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime Is the Marxist conception of class outdated? In this episode of 1Dime Radio, I’m joined by Dave from Theory Underground [⁠https://www.youtube.com/@theory_underground⁠] to unpack the “Post-Class Fractured Mass” (PCFM): why the working class, the “proletariat”  no longer coheres the way Marxists imagined, how media + schooling carve us into niches and swarms, and what this means for organizing today. We talk about why the decline of working-class power is due to real material factors in the economy, and not just due to ideology and “class consciousness.”  This brings us to the pivotal question: in the age of the gig economy, is the working class obsolete as the agent of revolutionary change? If so, who is the revolutionary subject today?  In the backroom, we discuss the issues with the term “Post-Left”, how people burn out from politics, and how bourgeois pseudoprogressive libertine attitudes bleed into leftist circles (like polyamory, non-monogamy, etc). Become a patron at Patreon.com/OneDime [http://Patreon.com/OneDime] if you haven’t already! Timestamps:  00:00:00 The Backroom Preview 05:15  The Post-Class Fractured Mass (PCFM)   07:08 Jobs, Careers, & Time-energy 10:33 “Progressive” schooling as sorting/gatekeeping   25:54 From Class Power to Popular Front of "The Vulnerable" 30:14 Outsourcing, deindustrialization & Stratification   36:35  The “Dictatorship of the Proletariat”   42:27 Can the Democratic Party be “reformed”?   50:10 The Gig Economy and The Breakdown of Solidarity  01:02:08  Ideological Gerrymandering 01:21:45 AI & Transition to The Backroom  GUEST: Dave — Theory Underground • Check out the Theory Underground YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@theory_underground [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 [https://www.amazon.com/Underground-Theory-David-McKerracher/dp/B0CH2CXSGN] • Check out the Dave’s Timenergy Book: https://www.amazon.com/Timenergy-Why-Have-Time-Energy/dp/B0D285C1TV/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.uWMeog7v0Fzxa2o7vYK7_OuDzbW0mXjpYddGDa84LDHzaHN7WUeL3O_T1zrzPCEr4Tw75Pn1KD82Jmmdem3hjQKq0TW4WLFIA3DIhDNVaV4.mgTh5f1Lm2lcEPI24AzA_GwBr-Gs5nOCIyzU_5-BfEg&dib_tag=se&qid=1753806927&refinements=p_27%3ADavid+McKerracher&s=books&sr=1-1&text=David+McKerracher [https://www.amazon.com/Timenergy-Why-Have-Time-Energy/dp/B0D285C1TV/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.uWMeog7v0Fzxa2o7vYK7_OuDzbW0mXjpYddGDa84LDHzaHN7WUeL3O_T1zrzPCEr4Tw75Pn1KD82Jmmdem3hjQKq0TW4WLFIA3DIhDNVaV4.mgTh5f1Lm2lcEPI24AzA_GwBr-Gs5nOCIyzU_5-BfEg&dib_tag=se&qid=1753806927&refinements=p_27%3ADavid+McKerracher&s=books&sr=1-1&text=David+McKerracher] FOLLOW 1Dime: • X/Twitter: https://x.com/1DimeOfficial  •  Follow me on Instagram: instagram.com/1dimeman  •Check out my main channel videos: https://www.youtube.com/@1Dimee [https://www.youtube.com/@1Dimee]  Outro Music by Karl Casey Give the Podcast a 5-star Rating if you enjoyed the show!