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Post-Left Theory: Beyond Anarchism, Marxism, and Vibes
“Is it not the supreme irony of our time that the main obstacle to the Left’s great themes is the Left itself? Post-Left Theory draws the only consistent one should not try to save the Left from its enemies, one should save its project from the Left. In Hegelian terms, the truth of the Left is no longer to be found in the Left. Chamas and McKerracher do not offer yet another lament over a dead Left. They do something far more dangerous. They think.” —Slavoj Žižek
“In reading Post-Left Theory, I hope you will come home to your mind! Reclaim and protect all that you your imagination, judgement, and powers of discernment above all.” —Nina Power
“Post-Left Theory opens with a first essential step of rejecting the Left’s authority. What becomes possible when we cease to grant the Left any authority, yet continue to explore the great themes it poisons and gatekeeps, like leisure, fulfilling work, production and ownership? Chamas and McKerracher bring two approaches into dialogue, reconstructing socialist politics and moving beyond the Left’s framing altogether. For me, that intellectual freedom is the essential starting point that postmortems of the Left never reach. With a spirit of creative freedom, the book explores what remains worth aspiring to.” —Angela Nagle
Post-Left Theory does not present a program for a movement. This is not a manifesto. Within these pages will be found no grand solutions; no prefabricated identity for consumers to wear. What this book supplies its reader is something more akin to a grenade to detonate one’s presuppositional coordinates. The disagreements within and between the pieces in this volume will force you to carve out your own position, and it will be your own, because you cannot read this book and walk away the same. Free yourself from the Party Line, the checkboxes of what can or cannot be said, and the cloistered confines of a captured dead end. What opens here is a horizon on a frontier. Come explore.
Tony Chamas (M.A.) and David McKerracher (M.A.) have forged a friendship over the last five years through conversations both on and off the air. Instead of pursuing PhDs, they each chose to build their own projects online. From Toronto, Canada, Tony creates comprehensive and beautiful video essays for 1Dime, hosts interviews on 1Dime Radio, and publishes essays on 1Dime Review. His next books are Freedom to Change Nothing, forthcoming from Sublation Media, and The Genealogy of Wokeism, forthcoming from Theory Underground. From McKerracher Family Farm in North Idaho, David runs Theory Underground, a post- (or pre-) institutional school of theory, neither left nor right, offering long-form lectures, both introductory and deep-dive, for workers with earbuds. He is the author of Why You Have No Time or Energy (Foreword by Slavoj Žižek), Editor-in-chief of Underground Theory, and the creator of TCG, The Liberating Arts Canon Trading Card Game.
“In reading Post-Left Theory, I hope you will come home to your mind! Reclaim and protect all that you your imagination, judgement, and powers of discernment above all.” —Nina Power
“Post-Left Theory opens with a first essential step of rejecting the Left’s authority. What becomes possible when we cease to grant the Left any authority, yet continue to explore the great themes it poisons and gatekeeps, like leisure, fulfilling work, production and ownership? Chamas and McKerracher bring two approaches into dialogue, reconstructing socialist politics and moving beyond the Left’s framing altogether. For me, that intellectual freedom is the essential starting point that postmortems of the Left never reach. With a spirit of creative freedom, the book explores what remains worth aspiring to.” —Angela Nagle
Post-Left Theory does not present a program for a movement. This is not a manifesto. Within these pages will be found no grand solutions; no prefabricated identity for consumers to wear. What this book supplies its reader is something more akin to a grenade to detonate one’s presuppositional coordinates. The disagreements within and between the pieces in this volume will force you to carve out your own position, and it will be your own, because you cannot read this book and walk away the same. Free yourself from the Party Line, the checkboxes of what can or cannot be said, and the cloistered confines of a captured dead end. What opens here is a horizon on a frontier. Come explore.
Tony Chamas (M.A.) and David McKerracher (M.A.) have forged a friendship over the last five years through conversations both on and off the air. Instead of pursuing PhDs, they each chose to build their own projects online. From Toronto, Canada, Tony creates comprehensive and beautiful video essays for 1Dime, hosts interviews on 1Dime Radio, and publishes essays on 1Dime Review. His next books are Freedom to Change Nothing, forthcoming from Sublation Media, and The Genealogy of Wokeism, forthcoming from Theory Underground. From McKerracher Family Farm in North Idaho, David runs Theory Underground, a post- (or pre-) institutional school of theory, neither left nor right, offering long-form lectures, both introductory and deep-dive, for workers with earbuds. He is the author of Why You Have No Time or Energy (Foreword by Slavoj Žižek), Editor-in-chief of Underground Theory, and the creator of TCG, The Liberating Arts Canon Trading Card Game.
644 pages, Paperback
Published October 15, 2026
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