Opinion on the USSR and other previous or still existing "actually existing socialism" States?

Thoughts on Leninism and its derivatives (Trotskyism, Marxism-Leninism/Stalinism, Bordigism, Maoism, etc.) as revolutionary strategies?

Opinion about Zizek's proposed "bureaucratic socialism"?

Will you invite Zizek to do another interview after his Lenin 2017 book is published?

As an [insert adjective-]Marxist who is also in the publishing business, how does the free flow of .pdfs make you feel?

When will you have Jodi Dean on your show? What do you think about her work? What about Adrian Johnston?

Paul Cockshott and cybernetic Marxism-Leninism received some hype on /leftypol/ recently. Thoughts on them?

You reproduced. Congrats. There's a good chance kids born now will suffer immensely due to global warming in a not so distant future. Is this an example of what Dupuy calls the crisis of our time, that people's knowledge [say, of global warming] don't translate into belief [thus acting accordingly]?

Marx and his foes. Was he fair in his treatment of Proudhon, Bakunin,

Leftypol has a good number of under 18 comrades. Many of them express the desire to study theory but confess having problems that hinder them: anxiety, medication, lacking reading comprehension skills (mostly due to horrible education systems), lacking the social support (reading isn't cool, and you miss out on social life), being overwhelmed and drained by the sensuous overload of late capitalism, and so on. As a guy who shits out 3 magnificently written tomes and learns two new languages a day, what kind of advice can you give to our young comrades?

What kind of drugs have you tried, and which did you like or dislike and why?

Are you a member of a communist party, and if not, how dare you?

Doug, please sort these books in order of current relevance: Debord's Society of the Spectacle; Adorno's Culture Industry; Baudrillard's Simulacra. What are your reasons?

Please answer this conundrum: how is babby formed?

Did the kulaks deserve it? Did Trotsky deserve the ice pick?

Did the kulaks deserve it, and Trotsky the ice pick?

Did Makhno betray the first alliance or was it Trotsky?

Opinions on anarchism; what do you take issue with?

Opinions on transhumanism and how it might manifest itself in different societies?

What kind of visual art, films, music and literature do you enjoy, and what are some of your all-time (and/or current) favourites?

What do you think about the revolutionary potential of the third world relative to the first and second?

Opinion on Red Scare-pilling/Bread-pilling normies/capitalists (i.e. tips on how to do it)?

Do you subscribe to any form of spirituality?

How do you sleep at night knowing you've brain-washed millions of possible proficient capitalists into godless Cultural Marxism and away from real-world, common sense *oink* economics?

What do you think of /leftypol/ posting and circulating (pirated) books you and Zero Books publish around the board?

What other left publishers do you like, anddo you ever feel like you're "competing" with them?

What is your favorite book that you/Zero Books have published?

Is there hope?

Would you ever get Jehu on the podcast, perhaps both him and Varn on at the same time to spark up some debate, and would you maybe in the vain resuscitate Pop the Left?

How come so many books written today are little more than glorified blog posts inflated with fluff that contributes nothing to the ideas expressed?

Your general opinion on the following: communization theory, accelerationism, xenofeminism.

Is it a problem that Marxism seems to have receded into academia and cultural critique? To what degree was this trend already present in the Second and Third Internationals, and the idea of the Proletariat as an "identity" that workers must identify with in order to organize. Or is this organizing of "workers" counter-intuitive, as the goal of Communism is the abolition of this class of "workers" all together. Basically, how do you feel about the Frankfurt School, Althusser, and the legacy of academic Marxism that seems predisposed towards identity based conceptions of class, and how do you feel about the similar political/activist wing of Marxism, and do you feel they too tend to view class too much as an identity?

Have you read "Towards a New Socialism"?

What is your top 5 sci-fi novels?

Who's gonna win: communism or global warning?

Would you consider yourself an ultra-leftist, and have you read Gilles Dauvé's "Eclipse and Re-Emergence of the Communist Movement" and what did you think of it?

What's the weirdest thing you've ever masturbated to?

Why has Marxism retreated back into academia and Anarchism become the domain of lifestylists, both of which end up funneling potential radicals towards liberalism?

Touching on the above, has this retreat away from class struggle's front lines resulted in a left incapable of talking to the rest of the masses (who are proletarian before anything else)?

Cultural Revolution. More bad then good or the other way around?

What would you say is the main difference between Zero Books and Verso Books as publishers?

How do you feel about post-Keynesianism and MMT? Also, is there really any difference between Keynesianism and Marxism-Leninism economically, or are they truly both just "the left wing of capital" as left communists would categorize them?

Noam Chomsky: just a liberal and/or pop-leftist? Is he useful or interesting relative to others on the left, e.g. Slavoj Zizek? If so, do you think he was ever more or less than that?

Do you have any specific thoughts on the concept of a "left" accelerationism, or unconditional accelerationism in general?

Thoughts on Maoism Third-Worldism? Also, I know you used a clip of "Posadist Rebel News". but is he familiar with The Roo?

Could Marxism and anarchism ever be synthesized, or are they theoretically and practically too different?

Thoughts on Murray Bookchin and the Kurds in Rojava/the Syrian civil war?

Thoughts on Maoism-Third Worldism, and are you familiar with Jason Unruhe and his Maoist Rebel News?

Who do you think is the most important artist alive today?

Has the Party form outlived itself as viable or even possible mode of organizing? If so, what's the alternative, and what are your general thoughts on vanguardism, democratic centralism and Alain Badiou?

Who's your celeb crush?

Is identity politics ruining discourse in the Left, and to what degree? What does the future of the Left look like?

Favourite anime?

Would you rather be 100 feet tall or as smart as Stephen Hawking?

"Authoritarianism". Is it a meaningful term, does it describe something good or bad, etc. and to what extent were Marx and Lenin already authoritarians in the negative sense people like Bakunin and Goldman described them as, and to what degree does Stalinism already exist in Marx and Lenin? If not, was Stalinism a betrayal of them or more of a historically-determined thing? Also, general thoughts on Stalin and Trotsky?

What do you think of leftists like Michael Parenti and/or the defense of Stalinist (or even post-Stalinist) Russia? Do they defend something that was meaningfully socialist or even good?

Thoughts on Blanquism?

Thoughts on the Weather Underground, RAF and other left insurrectionary/terrorist groups? Are/were they useful for socialism or the left in any way?