Captive Minds
A podcast devoted to chiselling at the mainstream narratives
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Lessons From Socialism 2026: When Identity Politics Replaces Class Struggle (opens the original)
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Overview: In this episode, Shaenah Batterson and Max Parry discuss the Socialism 2026 conference held in Chicago earlier this month put on by Haymarket Books. They focus in particular on the controversial panel “Health Fascism, Body Politics, and the Anti-State State”, clips of which which went viral on social media and were subject to widespread mockery. The four-day convention faced considerable backlash on both the right and left, with critics citing it as an example of identity politics and
The New McCarthyism and the Politics of Ressentiment (opens the original)
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Overview: On this week’s episode, hosts Shaenah Batterson and Max Parry discuss the nature of censorship and state repression in capitalist society, particularly in the context of recent events involving the U.S. government’s targeting of left-wing activists and journalists. They discuss the case of James “Fergie” Chambers, a Cox Enterprises family heir turned communist political activist who was recently arrested in Spain at the behest of the Trump administration, which is seeking to extradite
Interview with Daniel Tutt: Left-Nietzscheanism and the Eclipse of Working Class Politics (opens the original)
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Overview: Shaenah Batterson and Max Parry interview special guest Daniel Tutt, author and Marxist philosopher, about his work on Nietzsche, left-populism and other important topics. The discussion explores Tutt’s new book (co-authored with C. Derick Varn) on the challenges facing modern left organizing, The People Are Not One: Socialist Strategy After Left Populism, as well as his previous book on Friedrich Nietzsche, How to Read Like a Parasite: Why the Left Got High on Nietzsche, where he outl
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