Bio

<aside> 💡 Dr Daniel Tutt is a psychoanalytic Marxist philosopher, writer, teacher, and host of the Emancipations podcast. He is the author of Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Family: The Crisis of Initiation and How to Read Like a Parasite: Why the Left Got High on Nietzsche, and is working on a book on György Lukács. In addition to his online lectures and talks, he has taught philosophy at George Washington University, Marymount University, and the DC jail.

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https://youtu.be/7IDCy88x4pY?si=kI9O4HaY2GSJzBna

References

https://www.penguin.com.au/books/how-to-read-like-a-parasite-9781915672261

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-94070-6

https://www.penguin.com.au/books/how-to-read-like-a-parasite-9781915672261

https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/1589-the-politics-of-friendship

• An introductory question: you’ve written two books, Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Family: The Crisis of Initiation and How to Read Like a Parasite: Why the Left Got High on Nietzsche, why did you decide to write them?
  • Perhaps you could mention the Lukács book you’re writing here, too. I found the recent discussion with Christopher on the Young Idealist podcast enlightening.
• Another introductory question: What, to you, does it mean to be a Marxist? (Most of my audience tends to be from a non-Marxist CogSci/AI background)
  • What is class consciousness?
  • How is Marxism different from progressivism?
  • What, for you, is emancipatory politics?

Looking forward to discussing your particular view:

I also want to share some of my own ideas of friendship and its relation to politics which differs from these models of thinking friendship.

Marxism, Comradeship & Political Violence

• Since I have the opportunity, it behoves me to ask you about the Charlie Kirk assassination last month:
  • While I don’t think it was a Badiouean event, I do see it as a momentous event for not only American but even global politics.
  • What do you think this means for the leftist political project?
  • Do you see it as a 9/11 type event in how the right wing will respond?
  • The philosophy of violence warrants a whole podcast—in fact, a whole lecture series or multiple books—but generally speaking, what are your views on political violence and how should comrades respond to it?

Comrade

*This was the book I focused on the most.

• Who to you is a comrade? And who is not your comrade?

  • How’s a comrade different from an ally?

• What is a generic comrade?

  

  • I would love to discuss comradeship against identity politics, administrative neoliberal management, and systems. While it was at the start of the essay, it was the part that spoke to me the most, probably because this has personally affected me the most to the point of despondency.
  • What is the Marxist response to intersectional politics?

• What’s the role of the party in comradeship?