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Get access to The Backroom (100+ exclusive episodes) on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime This week on 1Dime Radio, I’m joined once again by Dr. Cadell Last, founder of Philosophy Portal, for a deep discussion on *nationalist internationalism*, the idea that genuine internationalism actually requires nationalism as a precondition. We explore why national sovereignty, taxing the rich, immigration control, labor power, and democratic self-determination often cannot be secured by isolated states alone, but instead require serious international coordination between nations. This episode was originally a patron-only bonus episode. In the Backroom preview at the start, we also get into Nick Fuentes, the return of repressed contradictions, and the increasingly unavoidable questions around race, gender, immigration, and identity that mainstream liberals and much of the left have struggled to confront directly. Timestamps: 00:00:00  Backroom preview, race, white culture, and repressed contradictions 00:03:53  Immigration, demographic change, and the Nick Fuentes phenomenon 00:10:49  A different critique of immigration 00:14:23  Nationalist internationalism 00:18:05  Why Marxist internationalism lacks a real libidinal anchor 00:30:56  Marxism’s cultural blind spot 00:37:13  Global capitalism, assimilation, and the nation-state 00:43:03  Borders, capital flight, and international coordination 00:48:48  Religion, depoliticization, and politics as substitute faith 00:52:01  What kind of socialism can answer the meaning crisis? 00:59:27  The EU, the UN, and stronger unions against fragmentation 01:03:25  Final thoughts on nationalism and internationalism as a dialectical process GUEST: Dr. Cadell Last, Philosophy Portal • Website: https://cadelllast.com/ • Philosophy Portal: https://philosophyportal.online/about • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PhilosophyPortal • Substack: https://philosophyportal.substack.com/ • X/Twitter: https://x.com/cadellnlast FOLLOW 1Dime: • Substack: https://1dimereview.substack.com/ • X/Twitter: https://x.com/1DimeOfficial • Instagram: instagram.com/1dimeman • Check out my main channel videos: https://www.youtube.com/@1Dimee Leave a like, drop a comment, and give the show a 5-star rating on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you listen to this. Tags: #Nationalism #Internationalism  #Immigration 

Get access to Part 2 & The Backroom (100+ exclusive episodes) on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime In this episode of 1Dime Radio, Benjamin Studebaker returns to lay out his case for a *supranational federation*, his answer to a problem that keeps resurfacing across both left and right politics: the limits of the nation-state in a world shaped by capital mobility, capital flight, interstate competition, and war. We break down Benjamin’s six-part “Why Federalism” series, why he thinks national governments cannot meaningfully tax capital or secure lasting peace on their own, and what kind of political system he thinks would actually be necessary to move beyond today’s global deadlock. In The Backroom on Patreon, Benjamin gives his take on the phenomenon of Clavicular, looksmaxxing, dating culture, and the broader social collapse behind both. Part 2 of our conversation on the Supernational federation will also be available only on Patreon, in which I challenge Studebaker on some issues I have with his proposal.  Timestamps: 00:00:00 The Backroom preview: looksmaxxing, Clavicular, and modern dating 00:03:11  Benjamin Studebaker returns, Why Federalism, and the limits of the nation-state 00:07:31  How competition makes political systems converge 00:10:37  From military competition to commercial competition 00:15:24  Why fear-based internationalism fails 00:20:20  Why even nationalist goals now require supranational politics 00:29:58  The democratic vs technocratic split 00:35:18  The Chamber of Labor and the Chamber of Status 00:42:25  Tribune, First Citizen, and global executive power 00:45:31  How could a supranational federation actually emerge? 00:51:01  Healthcare, universities, and organizing around concrete issues 01:08:56  Capital mobility, tax competition, and why national solutions get undercut 01:19:55  Medicare for All, capital, and the limits of monetary sovereignty alone 01:25:01  Why China has to be part of the project 01:30:04  Can nation-states build this, or would they sabotage it? 01:40:30  Why the left needs a positive vision, not just critique 01:48:24  Issue-based organizing, consumer unions, and a new political framework GUEST: Benjamin Studebaker, political theorist, PHD from Cambridge, author of The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy: The Way Is Shut and Legitimacy in Liberal Democracies • Website: https://benjaminstudebaker.com/ • X/Twitter: https://x.com/BMStudebaker • The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy: https://link.springer.com/book/9783031950087 • Legitimacy in Liberal Democracies: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-legitimacy-in-liberal-democracies.html • Why Federalism, Part 1, The Problem that Needs to Be Solved: https://www.streitcouncil.org/post/why-federalism-the-problem-that-needs-to-be-solved • Why Federalism, Part 2, Creating the Cataracts: https://www.streitcouncil.org/post/why-federalism-creating-the-cataracts • Why Federalism, Part 3, The Unit Question: https://www.streitcouncil.org/post/why-federalism-the-unit-question • Why Federalism, Part 4, On Citizenship: https://www.streitcouncil.org/post/why-federalism-on-citizenship • Why Federalism, Part 5, On the Role of China: https://www.streitcouncil.org/post/why-federalism-on-the-role-of-china • Why Federalism, Part 6, The Conclusion: https://www.streitcouncil.org/post/why-federalism-the-conclusion FOLLOW 1Dime: • My Substack (Articles and Essays): https://1dimereview.substack.com/ • X/Twitter: https://x.com/1DimeOfficial • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/1dimeman • Check out my main channel videos: https://www.youtube.com/@1Dimee Leave a like, drop a comment, and give the show a 5-star rating on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you listen to this.

Get access to The Backroom (100+ exclusive episodes) on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime In this episode of 1Dime Radio, I sit down with my friend Artin Salimi for a nuanced debate on immigration, what the right gets wrong, what the left gets wrong, and why the issue cannot be reduced to either xenophobic panic or liberal denial. We get into labor markets, Thatcherism, Brexit, brain drain, asylum, nationalism, class politics, and the ways neoliberal capitalism both drives migration and weaponizes it politically. This is a serious attempt to think through one of the most explosive political questions of our time without demonizing immigrants or parroting elite talking points. In The Backroom exclusive on Patreon, we continue our debate on immigration, and I put forward some of my more controversial hot takes, pushing further on borders, nationalism, class power, elite blind spots, and what a serious alternative to both neoliberal globalism and right-wing scapegoating might actually look like. Timestamps: 00:00:00  The Backroom preview (Patreon): Socialism, Borders & Brain Drain  00:03:19  Nuanced Discussion on Immigration 00:05:00  Why immigration dominates politics 00:11:33  Thatcherism and the neoliberal immigration trap 00:16:56  Brexit and why immigration still rose 00:21:26  Labor demand, empire, and who actually benefits 00:24:01  What both the right and left get wrong 00:32:35  Immigration is economics, but not only economics 00:39:37  Borders, deportations, and pathways to citizenship 00:42:22  Refugees, asylum, and what integration actually requires 00:50:10  Migrant labor, unionization, and the underclass problem 00:55:02  Rootless cosmopolitans, nationalism, and elite blindness 01:05:05  Empire, colonial history, and migration blowback 01:14:02  PMC politics, Bernie, AOC, and why the left sounds alien 01:17:51  Full Backroom episode on Patreon GUEST: Artin Salimi, YouTuber, rapper, and academic • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ArtinSalimi • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/artinsalimi666/ • SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/artin-salimi-208799242 FOLLOW 1Dime: • Substack (Articles and Essays): https://1dimereview.substack.com/ • X/Twitter: https://x.com/1DimeOfficial • Instagram: instagram.com/1dimeman • Check out my main channel videos: https://www.youtube.com/@1Dimee Leave a like, drop a comment, and give the show a 5-star rating on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you listen to this.

Get access to The Backroom (100+ exclusive episodes) on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDimeWhy has modern environmentalism failed to build a real mass politics? In this episode of 1Dime Radio, I’m joined by Matt Huber, author of Climate Change as Class War, to talk about why mainstream climate politics has so often been trapped in consumer guilt, lifestyle moralism, and elite discourse, instead of building power through class politics, labor, energy, and production. We discuss why carbon footprint politics became such a dead end, how the PMC shaped green ideology, why so much environmental messaging alienates ordinary people, and what a serious socialist approach to climate change would actually look like.In this week’s Backroom episode on Patreon, I go further into degrowth, the degrowth debate, and the conflict between ecological limits, abundance, socialism, and industrial modernity.Timestamps:00:00:00 Intro00:03:45 Why climate activism failed00:07:00 Climate change as class war00:09:10 Production, not consumption00:16:58 Carbon taxes and backlash00:19:43 Agriculture and emissions00:33:45 The left, growth, and electrification00:39:27 Oil, Canada, and industrial politics00:41:06 Degrowth vs abundance00:49:03 The PMC problem00:56:21 Why green politics alienates workers01:24:00 Farmers and the working majority01:31:12 Environmental health and populism01:40:28 Nitrogen, industry, and decarbonization01:45:56 Electrification and climate jobs01:49:46 Backroom previewGUEST:Matt Huber, author of Climate Change as Class WarBook: Climate Change as Class WarFOLLOW 1Dime:• Substack (Articles and Essays): https://1dimereview.substack.com/• X/Twitter: https://x.com/1DimeOfficial• Instagram: instagram.com/1dimeman• Check out my main channel videos: https://www.youtube.com/@1DimeeOutro Music by Karl CaseyLeave a like, drop a comment, and give the show a 5-star rating on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you listen to this.

Get access to The Backroom (100+ exclusive episodes) on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime In this episode, I sit down with Peter Coffin to talk about AI, automation, art, and why so much of the left has responded to these technologies with moral panic instead of material analysis. We get into the backlash to using AI in political and historical media, the difference between using AI as a tool versus treating it as a substitute for thought, and why so much so-called “AI slop” is really just an extension of older forms of capitalist standardization. We also talk about AI and music, writing, note-taking, b******t jobs, the PMC side of anti-AI sentiment, the environmental critique, and why these tools could open up new possibilities for visualizing history, philosophy, and political theory in ways that would never be funded by major studios or institutions. Timestamps: 00:00:00  Backlash to using AI History footage in Marxism Explained video  00:03:20 Automation Under Capitalism 00:05:42 AI and Creative Work 00:09:47 AI for Research 00:12:00 Blaming AI for Everything 00:16:00 What Creativity Is 00:18:03 Can AI Make Art? 00:24:05 Copyright and Rent-Seeking 00:29:59 AI for Writing 00:35:47 Why AI Sounds Bad 00:41:38 Why the Left Hates AI 00:45:02 Human Experience 00:49:23 AI as Identity Politics 00:51:10 PMC Panic 00:53:49 AI Music and Slop 00:56:57 Media Literacy 00:58:56 The Environmental Critique 01:03:05 Visualizing History With AI 01:03:05  Visualizing Marx, Kautsky, Gramsci, and Machiavelli with AI GUEST: Peter Coffin, YouTuber, documentarian, and writer • Peter's Documentary Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ImportantDs/videos • Substack, P on Stuff: https://petercoffin.substack.com/ FOLLOW 1Dime: • Substack (Articles and Essays): https://1dimereview.substack.com/ • X/Twitter: https://x.com/1DimeOfficial • Instagram: instagram.com/1dimeman • Check out my main channel videos: https://www.youtube.com/@1Dimee Leave a like, drop a comment, and give the show a 5-star rating on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you listen to this.

Get access to The Backroom (100+ exclusive episodes) on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime Benjamin Studebaker returns to 1Dime Radio to cut through the noise surrounding the war between Iran, Israel, and the United States. We break down what the actual strategic objectives seem to be, why this conflict may not unfold like Iraq, what a Libya-style collapse in Iran could look like, whether regime change by air power is really possible, and why oil prices, regional power balances, and American domestic politics may matter more than the loudest media narratives. In The Backroom, Benjamin and I discuss “Neo-Leftism” through the case of Spain and Pedro Sánchez. We also get into the end of history thesis, the clash of civilizations debate, and what all of this reveals about the contemporary left. Timestamps: 00:00:00 Backroom preview clip 00:02:44 Intro 00:06:14 Oil shocks, inflation, and why U.S. domestic politics matters 00:09:37 Why this is not Iraq 2.0 00:11:27 Regime change without a replacement? 00:12:41 Libya and the failed-state scenario 00:25:00 Precision strikes and the new warfare paradigm 00:33:06 Diaspora politics, monarchists, and the Shah fantasy 00:43:26 Does anyone actually want a democratic Iran? 00:45:57 Can Iran meaningfully escalate? 00:47:29 Why Russia and China are unlikely to intervene 00:51:50 Will Trump send ground troops? 01:45:59 Neo-Leftism, Spain, and Pedro Sánchez GUEST: Benjamin Studebaker, PhD at Cambridge, political theorist and author • The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy • Legitimacy in Liberal Democracies FOLLOW 1Dime: • Substack (Articles and Essays): https://1dimereview.substack.com/ • X/Twitter: https://x.com/1DimeOfficial • Instagram: instagram.com/1dimeman • Check out my main channel videos: https://www.youtube.com/@1Dimee Leave a like, drop a comment, and give the show a 5-star rating on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you listen to this.

Get access to The Backroom (95+ exclusive episodes) on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime In this episode, I’m joined by PF Jung to analyze the rise of Nick Fuentes, what makes him appealing, and why so many young people, especially young men, seem increasingly drawn toward the far right. In The Backroom on Patreon, PF Jung breaks down his idea of dark centrism, a synthesis of culturally conservative and economically left-wing politics, and explains how he situates himself between the contemporary left and right. Timestamps: 00:00:00 Economically Left, Culturally Right (The Backroom Preview) 00:03:40 Meet PF Jung 00:04:53 The Rise of Nick Fuentes’ 00:09:27 When Labels Fail 00:16:13 Order and Liberty 00:20:21 Israel and the Right 00:25:27 Why Men Drift Right 00:29:34 Dark Centrism 00:35:58 Family and BLM 00:39:30 How to Beat the Right 00:46:54 Jordan Peterson 00:51:35 Backroom Preview GUEST: PF Jung • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PFJung • X/Twitter: https://x.com/PF_Jung FOLLOW Tony of 1Dime: • Substack (Articles and Essays): https://1dimereview.substack.com/ • X/Twitter: https://x.com/1DimeOfficial • Instagram: instagram.com/1dimeman • Check out my main channel videos: https://www.youtube.com/@1Dimee Leave a like, drop a comment, and give the show a 5-star rating on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you listen to this.

Get access to The Backroom (100+ exclusive episodes) on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime This week on 1Dime Radio, Tony is joined again by Benjamin Studebaker, political theorist with a PhD from Cambridge, to dig into Ben’s recent article on “Debilitated Democracy,” the idea that modern democracies do not simply “decline”, they get structurally less capable over time, as modernization accelerates, politics fractures, and governance is pushed into an executive-technical machine that neither elected leaders nor technocrats can fully control. From there, we tackle Ben’s argument for why America can’t become an autocracy, and why people confuse authoritarian policy with autocratic rule, plus how federal complexity, institutional pluralism, and factional conflict make “dictatorship” fantasies harder to cash out in real life. Parts 2 and 3 of my conversation with Studebaker are in The Backroom on Patreon only. In The Backroom, as alluded to in the Backroom Preview in the first 2.5–3 minutes, Benjamin and I answer some of the most common questions we get regarding our politics. Are we post-left? Marxist? Or what? In particular, I try to get Studebaker to articulate what his personal political philosophy is, and what solutions or alternatives to our current impasse he believes in. Timestamps: 00:00:00 Studebaker’s Political Philosophy (The Backroom Preview) 00:04:13  Intro, “Debilitated Democracy,” and the autocracy question 00:13:08  Technocrats as “priests,” and why institutional trust collapses 00:28:08  Elected officials vs technocrats, the executive branch tug-of-war 00:47:36  Kelsen, Habermas, and democracy’s legitimation crisis 00:54:47  Trump, tariffs, visas, and the political limits of “disentangling” from the world order 00:59:18  Authoritarian policy vs autocratic rule, why America can’t be an autocracy 01:11:59  Nick Land, Curtis Yarvin, and the “CEO-king” temptation 01:23:23  Government shutdowns, food stamps, and “embedded democracy.” 01:35:25  Managing the European right, and why France and Germany are different 01:43:05  State capacity, charismatic leaders, and modern governance limits 01:56:08  Backroom teaser: what “left” and “right” even mean now GUEST: Benjamin Studebaker • Substack: https://bmstudebaker.substack.com/ • Website: https://benjaminstudebaker.com/ • X: https://x.com/BMStudebaker FOLLOW 1Dime: • Substack (Articles and Essays): https://1dimereview.substack.com/ • X/Twitter: https://x.com/1DimeOfficial • Instagram: instagram.com/1dimeman • Check out my main channel videos: https://www.youtube.com/@1Dimee Leave a like, drop a comment, and give the show a 5-star rating on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you listen to this.

Get access to The Backroom (95+ exclusive episodes) on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime In this week’s episode of 1Dime Radio, I’m joined by Professor Michael C. Behrent to discuss Towards a Conservative Left: Selected Writings of Jean-Claude Michéa, a newly translated collection of essays by one of France’s most fascinating dissident socialists, sometimes described as “the French Christopher Lasch.” Michéa is a rare kind of left thinker: fiercely anti-capitalist and pro-democracy, but deeply skeptical of the Left’s cultural project, especially when it becomes a substitute for class politics, or when it turns working class “common sense” into something to be morally corrected. We talk about his Orwellian framework (including “Tory anarchism” and “common decency”), his critique of liberalism as both an economic and social ideology, and why these arguments suddenly feel uncomfortably relevant. In The Backroom (Patreon), we go further into what “conservative leftism” could actually mean today: socially conservative and economically leftist, what that synthesis would look like in practice, and what parts of the modern Left Michéa thinks have become complicit with liberalism. Timestamps: 00:00:00  The Backroom Preview Culture vs Race, and The Cosmopolitan Delusion 00:04:19  Jean Claude Michéa: The French Christopher Lasch  00:10:38  Towards a Conservative Left: Michéa’s Conservative Socialism 00:14:05  Orwell: The Tory Anarchist 00:17:50  Michéa’s background, communist parents, the Resistance, and patriotism 00:28:01 Why Orwell is the key to Michéa’s synthesis 00:35:57  Orwell’s “common decency.” 00:50:15  Common sense vs left suspicion, and the populist question 00:59:22  The “bourgeois left” & The drift away from the working-class  01:02:45  What “conservative” really means here 01:31:02  A New Political Synthesis (The Backroom Transition) GUEST: Michael C. Behrent • Towards a Conservative Left (Bookshop): https://bookshop.org/p/books/towards-a-conservative-left-selected-writings-of-jean-claude-michea-jean-claude-michea/22912345 • Towards a Conservative Left (Barnes & Noble): https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/towards-a-conservative-left-jean-claude-michi-a/1147813503 • Vauban Books (Publisher): https://www.vaubanbooks.com/ • Behrent faculty page (Appalachian State): https://history.appstate.edu/faculty-staff/profiles • Behrent’s site: https://sisterrepublic.wordpress.com/about/ FOLLOW 1Dime: • Substack (Articles and Essays): https://1dimereview.substack.com/ • X/Twitter: https://x.com/1DimeOfficial • Instagram: instagram.com/1dimeman • Check out my main channel videos: https://www.youtube.com/@1Dimee Leave a like, drop a comment, and give the show a 5-star rating on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you listen to this.

Get access to The Backroom (95+ exclusive episodes) on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime In this episode of 1Dime Radio, Keegan Kjeldsen from Essential Salts (Untimely Reflections/The Nietzsche podcast) joins me for a chapter-by-chapter breakdown of Francis Fukuyama’s book The End of History and the Last Man. We unpack liberal democracy’s philosophical roots, the fragility of authoritarian states, the Hegelian struggle for recognition, and the tensions between capitalism, legitimacy, and human dignity. Don’t miss this guide to one of the most misunderstood books of the modern era. Part 2 of this discussion is in The Backroom (Patreon Exclusive). You will you get an additional 2 hours of Keegan/EssensialSalts and explaining the rest of Fukuyama's book chapter by chapter. Timestamps: 00:00:00  The Backroom Preview 00:04:53  Why Read Fukuyama 00:10:14 Theory of History Explained: Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche) 00:26:01  The Weakness of Strong States 00:46:02  Why Communism and RW Dicatorships Failed 01:12:00  Liberal Democracy as the final form of government? 01:28:03  The Struggle for Recognition and Human Nature 02:10:01  Transition to Part 2 (On Patreon) GUEST: Keegan Kjeldsen (EssentialSalts / Untimely Reflections) • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@untimelyreflections • The Nietzsche Podcast (Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/show/0ZARzVCRfJZDCyeKjvIEfE • Untimely Reflections Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/untimelyreflections FOLLOW 1Dime: • Substack (Articles and Essays): https://1dimereview.substack.com/ • X/Twitter: https://x.com/1DimeOfficial • Instagram: instagram.com/1dimeman • Check out my main channel videos: https://www.youtube.com/@1Dimee Tags: #1DimeRadio #Fukuyama #PoliticalPhilosophy #Hegel #TheNietzschePodcast #EssentialSalts #UntimelyReflections Leave a like, drop a comment, and give the show a 5-star rating on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you listen to this.

 Get access to The Backroom (95+ exclusive episodes) on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime This week on 1Dime Radio, I’m joined by Dr. Cadell Last, creator of Philosophy Portal, to unpack what feels like a shifting “world spirit” in politics and culture. We dig into the collapse of New Atheism, the move from reason to “spirit,” why Jordan Peterson landed when he did, and how religion and politics are re-emerging as answers to a modern crisis of meaning. Along the way we talk Marx, “events” like 9/11 that fracture shared narratives, and why capitalism keeps generating contradictions it cannot metabolize. In the Backroom (Patreon exclusive), we go further into the global right-wing shift, the return of suppressed contradictions liberals and leftists avoid, and figures like Nick Fuentes for Part 2. In Part 3 (also on Patreon only), we then discuss the idea of “Nationalist Internationalism,” arguing that genuine international cooperation requires strong sovereign nations first, and that real internationalism has to pass through nationalism rather than cosmopolitan globalism. Timestamps: 00:00:00  Nationalist Internationalism (The Backroom Preview) 00:04:01  The Conservative Zeitgeist 00:08:55  New Atheism's Rise and Fall 00:11:20  Jordan Peterson vs Sam Harris and the religion comeback 00:15:23  Why Marx's critique of religion is wrong 00:26:18  “Events” and the collapse of shared narratives 00:33:02  9/11, New Age mysticism, and the hunger for meaning 00:38:37  The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism 00:43:43  Badiou: truth procedures and politics-as-religion 01:08:29  Religion vs science, the knowledge problem 01:20:22  God, Religion, and ideology 01:45:08  Backroom preview (Patreon): global right shift, Nick Fuentes, nationalist internationalism GUEST: Dr. Cadell Last (Philosophy Portal) • Philosophy Portal (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCtCqYQFPhnU1OnHPveEnYw • Philosophy Portal (Site): https://philosophyportal.online/about • Cadell’s Website: https://cadelllast.com/ • X/Twitter: https://x.com/cadellnlast FOLLOW 1Dime: • Substack: https://1dimereview.substack.com/ • X/Twitter: https://x.com/1DimeOfficial • Instagram: instagram.com/1dimeman • Check out my main channel videos: https://www.youtube.com/@1Dimee Leave a like, drop a comment, and give the show a 5-star rating on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you listen to this. Tags: #1DimeRadio #CadellLast #PhilosophyPortal #Religion #NewAtheism #JordanPeterson #PoliticalPhilosophy #Globalism #Nationalism #Internationalism #Conservatism #RightWingShift

Get access to The Backroom (95+ exclusive episodes) on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime This week on 1Dime Radio, I sit down with Rob Ashton, a trade unionist and frontrunner for the Federal NDP (New Democratic Party) leadership race. I ask him all about his policy platform, what the NDP needs to do to win back the working-class majority. and the biggest issues facing Canadians right now. We get into Ashton’s labour-first strategy, his comprehensive labor reform, whether higher union density risks inflation, what “full employment” should mean, how to rebuild domestic industry without turning it into corporate welfare, and why he thinks the NDP can become a party of real worker power again. Timestamps: 00:00:00  Intro 00:01:21  Why run for NDP leader as a non-career politician? 00:05:02  Why the NDP lost working-class support 00:11:46  Temporary Foreign Worker program, wage suppression, and migrant rights 00:19:07  How to make unionization easier, labour law reforms, union busting 00:32:13  Inflation, wages, and the “wage-price spiral” debate 00:34:33  Bank of Canada, full employment, and job guarantee talk 00:43:48  Free trade, protectionism, and rebuilding Canadian industry 00:49:13  “Pre-distribution” vs redistribution, what it means in plain language 01:00:49  Defence procurement, shipbuilding, and reindustrialization 01:04:20  Climate policy, nuclear, and a worker-centered transition 01:10:23  Alberta, energy jobs, tanker ban, and Indigenous consent GUEST: Rob Ashton, NDP leadership candidate, trade unionist (ILWU Canada) • Rob’s campaign: https://robashton.ca/ • Meet Rob: https://robashton.ca/meet-rob/ • Rob Ashton on X: https://x.com/Rob_T_E_Ashton • NDP leadership contestants page: https://leadership.ndp.ca/contestants How to vote in the NDP leadership race • Become an NDP member: https://act.ndp.ca/donate/membership-en • Leadership 2026 hub: https://leadership.ndp.ca/ • Leadership FAQ and voting info: https://leadership.ndp.ca/faq • Rules governing the leadership contest (official PDF): https://www.ndp.ca/sites/default/files/2026-leadershipgoverningrules.pdf FOLLOW 1Dime: • Substack (Articles and Essays): https://1dimereview.substack.com/ • X/Twitter: https://x.com/1DimeOfficial • Instagram: instagram.com/1dimeman • Check out my main channel videos: https://www.youtube.com/@1Dimee Leave a like, drop a comment, and give the show a 5-star rating on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you listen to this.

Get access to The Backroom (95+ exclusive episodes of 1Dime Radio) on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime In this episode, friend of the show, Philosopher Dave McKerracher of Theory Underground, and I dig into the idea of “radical responsibility,” basically the notion that if you’re trying to change the world, you’ve got more responsibility on your shoulders, not less. We talk about how bad messaging, cringe behavior, and ideological shortcuts can tank movements, including a wild DSA mishap. Pulling from Max Weber, history, and everyday politics, we argue that real progress comes down to considering real consequences and what a majority of people can actually get behind.  In the Backroom, Dave and I continue our spicy conversation on “Progress and Reaction,” taking a deeper look at how parts of the left end up functioning as “shocktroops for capital.” Timestamps:  0:00 Trump’s ICE Raids (Preview) 3:43  The Importance of Radical Responsibility  30:45 The Responsibility of the Radical Right 53:04 DSA Disaster  1:09:14 Nick Fuentes' Rise  1:25:49 Ends, means, & Intentions: The Ethics of Conviction vs Responsibility GUEST: David McKerracher (Theory Underground) • Theory Underground (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/@theory_underground • McKerracher of TU (X): https://x.com/theoryundrgrnd • Theory Underground (Substack): https://theoryunderground.substack.com/ • Underground Theory Volume 2 on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FZBNYSF9 FOLLOW 1Dime: • Substack (Articles and Essays): https://1dimereview.substack.com • X/Twitter: https://x.com/1DimeOfficial • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tonyof1dime/ • Check out my main channel videos: https://www.youtube.com/@1Dimee Leave a like, drop a comment, and give the show a 5-star rating on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you listen to this.

Get access to The Backroom (90+ exclusive episodes) on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime In this episode of 1Dime Radio, I sit down with Harper O’Connor, a rising Socialist YouTuber and DSA organizer, to make the socialist case for National Service and how the millitary can be transformed and used to solve climate change. This ain’t just a case for millitary conscription or to bring back the millitary draft per se, but rather for a broader, socialist vision of National Service. This includes the idea of a Civilian Climate Corps and broader service programs that could rebuild state capacity, civic trust, shared purpose, and the social fabric that atomized capitalism keeps dissolving.  In the Backroom Exclusive podcast on Patreon, Harper and I talk about how the Left lost younger men, why the far right is winning the “spiritual crisis,” and what a left-wing alternative could be, and we talk socialist strategy more broadly. Timestamps: 00:00:00  Why the Left Lost Young Men (The Backroom Preview) 00:06:03  The Civilian Climate Corps 00:11:41  Were not in Kansas anymore: Harper's Political Journey 00:16:51  The Citizen Army Idea: A Socialist Republican Idea 00:22:03 What if Everyone Joined the Military?  00:27:34 Belonging, Comradery, and Solidarity 00:33:17 Build Stuff, Save Lives, Learn Life Skills, Make Friends 00:37:06  Conscription Makes it Harder to Go to War 00:44:20  “Isn’t This Just Legitimizing Empire?” 00:49:22  Civic Duty, Coercion, and Collectivism 00:57:10  The Masculinity Crisis 01:04:44  Socialism or Eco-Fascism 01:17:43  Closing + The Backroom Teaser GUEST: Harper O’Connor, Socialist YouTuber and DSA organizer • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@UCZDSz1E3rJ18vefmK7Hw4YA  • “A Guide to Democratic Socialists of America” (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijlg0phla-s FOLLOW 1Dime: • Substack (Articles and Essays): https://substack.com/@tonyof1dime • X/Twitter: https://x.com/1DimeOfficial • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tonyof1dime/ • Check out my main channel videos: https://www.youtube.com/@1Dimee Leave a like, drop a comment, and give the show a 5-star rating on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you listen to this.

Get access to The Backroom (90+ exclusive episodes) and support 1Dime Radio: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime This week on 1Dime Radio, I am joined by Noj Rants, one of the sharpest new voices in Soviet history on YouTube. We go straight at the myths that both mainstream commentators and newer Marxist sympathizers tend to repeat, especially about the Lenin era, the Soviets themselves, and how the Soviet state actually functioned. We talk about bad historiography, timeline compression, “Lenin died, then Stalin took over” simplifications, Civil War narratives, archives, and why so much of Soviet history discourse ends up polarized into propaganda versus counterpropaganda.  In the Backroom segment on Patreon, NOJ Rants, and I keep going for four more hours, continuing the conversation. It is split into two parts, covering a wide range of Soviet history debates across multiple periods. In these two Patreon exclusive episodes, NOJ Rants, and I continue our conversation about contentious events in Soviet history, from the development of the Bolshevik one‑party state to the realities of Soviet “democracy.” We also discuss the Stalin period, the Red Purges, and NOJ Rants' hot takes on Marxism‑Leninism and the lessons of Soviet state-building.  I basically throw every question you can imagine at him and get his take on the biggest controversies, interpretations, and myths. We also get into the state of left-wing YouTube today, and how prominent leftist creators, especially Marxist-Leninists, tend to cover Soviet history. Timestamps: 00:00:00  The Backroom Preview  00:04:51  The Best Soviet History YouTuber 00:10:05  Where to start reading Soviet history, the best historians and books 00:20:19  Stalin Wasn't a Dictator According to the CIA?   00:37:43 The Soviet archives  00:42:36  How the Russian Civil War Timeline Gets Re-Written 00:44:44  Soviet elections, Mensheviks, SRs, & the Socialist Opposition 00:47:43 The Truth About Imperialist Encirclement 01:11:52  The Constituent Assembly and Bolshevik Consolidation 01:29:05   Was Soviet Democracy a real thing?  01:33:19  Prelude to the 4-hour Backroom Segment (Parts 2 and 2) GUEST: NOJ Rants (YouTuber, Soviet history) • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@nojrants FOLLOW 1Dime: • Substack (Articles and Essays): https://substack.com/@tonyof1dime • X/Twitter: https://x.com/1DimeOfficial • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tonyof1dime/ • Check out my main channel videos: https://www.youtube.com/@1Dimee  #soviethistory  #sovietunion  #russianrevolution  Leave a like, drop a comment, and give the show a 5-star rating on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you listen to this.