Podcasts by Radio Free Humanity: The Marxist-Humanist Podcast
Radio Free Humanity is a podcast covering news, politics and philosophy from a Marxist-Humanist perspective. It is co-hosted by Brendan Cooney and Andrew Kliman. We intend to release new episodes every two weeks. Radio Free Humanity is sponsored by Marxist-Humanist Initiative (https://www.marxisthumanistinitiative.org), but the views expressed by the co-hosts and guests of Radio Free Humanity are their own. They do not necessarily reflect the views and positions of MHI.
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RFH Ep. 62. Participatory Economics (Parecon)––Interview with Michael Albert from 2022-02-18T18:12:50
The co-hosts interview Michael Albert about his new book, No Bosses. He summarizes the main ideas and components of participatory economics (parecon) and discusses what’s new about his latest book....
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RFH Ep. 61: Defending Liberal Democracy: On What Grounds? from 2022-02-04T16:46:11
The co-hosts and Anne Jaclard discuss Andrew’s article, “On What Grounds Should We Defend Liberal Democracy?” The discussion focuses on defense of the liberal-democratic individual rights and freed...
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RFH Ep. 60- The Jan. 6 Fascist Insurrectionists: Enemy of Jacobin’s Enemy from 2022-01-21T18:52:55
Brendan and Andrew critically review, and provide an alternative to, the soft-on-fascist-insurrection discourse of Jacobin writers Branko Marcetic, David Sirota, and Ben Burgis, which sympathizes w...
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RFH Ep. 57 Post Rittenhouse from 2021-12-10T20:58:22
The co-hosts welcome Ron E. Turing and MHI’s Anne Jaclard to discuss the trials in Kenosha, Charlottesville, and Brunswick, Georgia. A participant in the Kenosha protests, Turing is the author of “...
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RFH Episode 55: “Both Sides” Now: What’s Happened to the Alt- Right? from 2021-11-12T16:28:08
Brendan and Andrew interview alt-right-watcher Davis Matthias-Foster about his article, “The Threat from the Far Right, Post-Trump.” Matthias-Foster explains why Marxist-Humanist Initiative’s posit...
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RFH Ep. 54-The Nature Of Russian Economy from 2021-10-29T18:23:04
Brendan and Andrew discuss Raya Dunayevskaya’s 1946-47 article, “The Nature of the Russian Economy,” and why the issues remain relevant to the fight for socialism today. Questions addressed in the ...
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RFH Episode 53: Henryk Grossmann’s Breakdown Model from 2021-10-16T13:25:44
Brendan interviews Andrew about his recent article,“Henryk Grossmann’s Breakdown Model: On the Real Cause of the Fictitious Breakdown Tendency.” Andrew argues that Grossmann’s model and associated ...
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Episode 52: The TSSI in Latin America from 2021-09-24T21:29:40
Brendan and Andrew interview two young Mexican economists, Alan Deytha and Sebastián Hernández, about their discovery and promotion of the temporal single-system interpretation of Marx’s value theo...
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RFH. Episode 51: Marx’s Reproduction Schemes: Unbalanced Growth & Critique of Trickle-Down Economics from 2021-09-11T00:56:26
The co-hosts discuss Andrew’s paper, Marx’s Reproduction Schemes as an Unbalanced-Growth Model, which challenges decades of commentary on the schemes of reproduction in volume 2 of Marx’s Capital. ...
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Episode 50: Marxism vs. Resurgent Tankieism (interview with László Molnárfi, in Ireland) from 2021-08-24T23:39:18
Episode 50: Marxism vs. Resurgent Tankieism (interview with László Molnárfi, in Ireland) by MHI
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Episode 49: Populist Rhetoric as Bullshit (interview with Avishai Green) from 2021-08-06T20:33:06
Brendan and Andrew interview Avishai Green, author of Speaking Bullshit to Power: Populism
and the Rhetoric of Bullshit and doctoral student in political science at the Hebrew University of
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Episode 48: Keith Kahn-Harris on Denialism––and Post-Denialism from 2021-07-23T14:47:44
The co-hosts welcome Keith Kahn-Harris, author of Denial: The Unspeakable Truth. They discuss what the various kinds of denialism have in common, strategies to fight denialism, and confronting the ...
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Episode 47: Ravi Bali on Conducting Arguments in an Honest, Revolutionary Manner from 2021-07-09T21:37:59
The co-hosts welcome back Ravi Bali to discuss his recently-published essay, “On Conducting Arguments in an Honest, Revolutionary Manner.” Ravi explains why he thinks truth-seeking should be an imp...
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Episode 46: Argumentation and Exploitation—Interview with Ben Burgis (Part 2) from 2021-06-25T18:06:11
The co-hosts welcome back popular leftist podcast host Ben Burgis. Andrew continues to “give him an argument” about his endorsement of G. A. Cohen’s “plain argument” about capitalist exploitation. ...
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Episode 45: Argumentation and Exploitation - Interview with Ben Burgis (Part 1) from 2021-06-11T22:08:53
Radio Free Humanity is a podcast covering news, politics and philosophy from a Marxist-Humanist perspective. It is co-hosted by Brendan Cooney and Andrew Kliman. We intend to release new episodes e...
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Episode 44: “The State and Revolution” Reconsidered from 2021-05-28T19:15:01
The co-hosts take a new look at V. I. Lenin’s 1917 work, The State and Revolution. They discuss the significance of its return to Marx and Engels’ view that the state machine needs to be broken (“s...
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Episode 43: The Struggle for Black Lives After the Minneapolis Verdict from 2021-05-15T22:32:37
Brendan and Andrew welcome Gabriel Donnelly, author of “Minneapolis After the Third Precinct,” and Anne Jaclard and Aaron Williams, main authors of Marxist-Humanist Initiative’s (MHI’s) editorial, ...
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Episode 42: A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear - interview with Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling from 2021-04-30T20:02:15
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Episode 41: Is There a Non-Capitalist Way Forward for the Global South? from 2021-04-17T01:58:13
In this episode, Brendan and Andrew discuss Raya Dunayevskaya’s pamphlet––Nationalism, Communism, Marxist-Humanism, and the Afro-Asian Revolutions. Writing in 1959, she put forward a way for the ne...
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Episode 40: COVID-19 Containment and the “Freedom-Loving” Backlash from 2021-04-02T18:09:19
Joining the co-hosts are Dr. Michael Fitzpatrick, a London physician active in the fight against COVID; John Gillott, a British sociologist of science and author of Bioscience, Governance and Polit...
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Episode 39: Michael Heinrich and F. H. Pitts’ Attempt to Eliminate Marx’s Crisis Theory from 2021-03-20T13:38:13
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Trump’s Base––Interview with David Norman Smith (Part 2) -- Ep. 38 from 2021-03-06T04:41:59
The co-hosts continue their interview with David Norman Smith (https://www.marxisthumanistinitiative.org/episode-36-trumps-base-interview-with-david-norman-smith-part-1), a sociologist at the Unive...
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AOC’s Well-Being vs. Greenwald’s Sexist, Red-Brown Politics -- Ep. 37 from 2021-02-20T01:03:10
Anne Jaclard of Marxist-Humanist Initiative and the co-hosts defend Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s video (https://www.instagram.com/p/CKxlyx4g-Yb/?hl=en) on the Trumpites’ fascistic Capitol Insurrectio...
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Trump’s Base––Interview with David Norman Smith (Part 1) -- Ep. 36 from 2021-02-06T01:38:23
The co-hosts interview David Norman Smith, a sociologist at the University of Kansas, about his research into the characteristics of Trump supporters and why they support Trump. Smith discusses que...
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Dunayevskaya on the Independence of the Black Struggle from the “General Class Struggle” -- Ep. 35 from 2021-01-23T02:24:47
Brendan and Andrew take a new look at the extensive “notes” that Raya Dunayevskaya made (https://www.marxisthumanistinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/RD-on-Coolidge.pdf) in preparation for ...
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Dunayevskaya on the “Vulgarization of Marxism” and Russian State-Capitalism -- Ep. 34 from 2021-01-09T06:17:55
Brendan and Andrew take a new look at Raya Dunayevskaya’s 1944 polemic, “A Restatement of Some Fundamentals of Marxism Against Carter’s Vulgarization.” (https://www.marxisthumanistinitiative.org/a-...
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Making Marx Make Sense: The Early Years -- Ep. 32 from 2020-12-05T04:38:03
Brendan interviews Andrew about his role in the development of the temporal single-system interpretation of Karl Marx’s value theory (TSSI). The interview focuses especially on Andrew’s personal ex...
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Marx’s Crisis Theory: New Spanish Defense -- Ep. 31 from 2020-11-20T23:28:58
Brendan and Andrew welcome back (https://www.marxisthumanistinitiative.org/episode-19-spanish-edition-of-reclaiming-marxs-capital-interview-with-translator) Guillem Murcia López, a translator of th...
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Use-Value and Exchange-Value … and Value: Ep. 30 from 2020-11-07T01:49:01
The co-hosts discuss a Yale University colloquium talk, “Use-Value and Exchange-Value … and Value,” that Andrew delivered on October 7. Much of the discussion is about common misconceptions regardi...
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Kenya’s Response to COVID-19 (contrasted to that of Trumpist USA) -- Ep. 29 from 2020-10-24T03:23:23
The co-hosts and Anne Jaclard interview Dr. Pauline Muchina, author of “Please Aid Kenyan Children & Women Facing COVID-19, Floods, Locusts.” (https://www.marxisthumanistinitiative.org/internationa...
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Lebanon’s Protest Movement Since the Beirut Explosion -- Ep. 28 from 2020-10-10T15:55:40
Jade Saab, who previously appeared on the podcast to discuss “The Uprising in Lebanon,” (https://www.marxisthumanistinitiative.org/episode-6-the-uprising-in-lebanon) returns to provide an update in...
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Reading “American Civilization on Trial” in Costa Rica -- Ep. 27 from 2020-09-26T03:46:32
Raya Dunayevskaya’s pamphlet, “American Civilization on Trial: Black Masses as Vanguard” (ACOT) (http://www.marxisthumanistinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/American-Civilization-on-Trial.p...
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Dialogue with Patrick Murray on the Value-Form Paradigm, Part 2 -- Ep. 26 from 2020-09-13T01:46:11
Brendan and Andrew continue their dialogue with Patrick Murray, the noted value-form theorist. (The value-form paradigm is a Marx-inspired strand of political economy that focuses on the market.) P...
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Dialogue with Patrick Murray on the Value-Form Paradigm, Part 1 -- Ep. 25 from 2020-08-29T03:32:56
Brendan and Andrew welcome Patrick Murray, the noted value-form theorist, onto the podcast. (The value-form paradigm is a Marx-inspired strand of political economy that focuses on the market.) Patr...
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Combating Tankie Denialism: Specialist in Soviet History Rebuts Grover Furr--Ep. 24 from 2020-08-14T21:23:13
Brendan and Andrew interview Lesley Rimmel (https://history.okstate.edu/people/emeriti), a professor emerita of history at Oklahoma State University who specializes in the history of Russia under S...
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The Rise of the Extreme Right in Europe -- Ep. 23 from 2020-07-31T21:44:37
The co-hosts interview Ralph Keller, who has been studying the resurgence of the extreme right in Germany and elsewhere in the European Union. They discuss the extent of the resurgence; why the res...
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A Post-Capitalist Future––Not by Politics Alone -- Ep. 22 from 2020-07-17T22:39:37
Brendan interviews Andrew about his With Sober Senses essay, “Not by Politics Alone: Thinking Through a Post-Capitalist Future.” (https://www.marxisthumanistinitiative.org/alternatives-to-capital/n...
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Consigned to the Jaco-dustbin of History -- Ep. 21 from 2020-07-03T22:39:01
Owing to the leading role of African-Americans, Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign imploded, and now an uprising for Black lives and against police violence has swept the US and the world. The c...
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Cockshott versus Marx––Interview with “RV” -- Ep. 20 from 2020-06-19T15:57:33
Scottish computer scientist Paul Cockshott and his devotees have frequently portrayed Marx as a proponent of their own “labor theory of value.” But a recent essay by “RV,” (https://paulcockshott.wo...
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Episode 19: Spanish Edition of “Reclaiming Marx’s ‘Capital’”––Interview with Translator from 2020-06-05T22:58:46
The co-hosts interview Guillem Murcia López, a translator of the just-published Spanish edition (https://www.elviejotopo.com/libro/reivindicando-el-capital-de-marx/) of Andrew’s book Reclaiming Mar...
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The Value-Form Paradigm vs. Marx’s “Capital,” Part 2 -- Ep. 18 from 2020-05-22T22:59:39
The second half of a two-part interview on the “value-form paradigm”—a Marx-inspired and market-focused strand of political economy. Some years ago, the noted value-form theorist Patrick Murray (ht...
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The Value-Form Paradigm vs. Marx’s “Capital,” Part 1 -- Ep. 17 from 2020-05-08T21:44:13
Some years ago, Andrew participated in a published symposium (http://www.copejournal.com/critique-of-political-economy-vol-1/) on the “value-form paradigm”—a Marx-inspired and market-focused strand...
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Dunayevskaya’s Revolutionary Interpretation of Hegel’s Dialectical Philosophy -- Ep. 15 from 2020-04-11T16:28:42
Brendan interviews Andrew about his just-published With Sober Senses article, “Ceaseless Self-Movement: Dunayevskaya’s Interpretation of the Dialectic of the Absolute.” (https://www.marxisthumanist...
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The New Game-Changing Inequality Database -- Ep. 14 from 2020-03-28T01:02:35
The co-hosts discuss the new prototype account for the distribution of “personal income” (https://www.bea.gov/data/special-topics/distribution-of-personal-income)—what share of income is obtained b...
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The Tankie Craze, Part 2—Disillusioned Radical Youth Fighting Stalinism -- Ep. 13 from 2020-03-13T22:52:22
In a previous episode of this podcast series (https://www.marxisthumanistinitiative.org/episode-9-the-tankie-craze-resurgent-stalinism-among-youth), MHI organizational secretary Anne Jaclard discus...
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Inequality of Wealth in the U.S. -- Ep. 12 from 2020-02-28T20:57:59
Brendan interviews Andrew about his recent study “Wealth Inequality in the U.S.: Its Level, Trend, and Significance” (https://www.marxisthumanistinitiative.org/economics/wealth-inequality-in-the-u-...
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Defending, and Transcending, Liberal Democracy -- Ep. 11 from 2020-02-14T20:52:16
The co-hosts interview Adam Plante, a young New York City education activist and Marxist-Humanist thinker, about his work on liberal democracy. With respect to the current moment, they discuss such...
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Marx’s “Critique of the Gotha Program” -- Ep. 10 from 2020-01-31T22:37:50
Brendan and Andrew discuss Karl Marx’s Critique of the Gotha Program (https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/), written in 1875 to oppose the merger of two German socialist parties—...
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The Tankie Craze--Resurgent Stalinism among Youth -- Ep. 9 from 2020-01-17T21:16:27
Anne Jaclard, MHI’s organizational secretary and a veteran of the left ever since the 1960s, joins Brendan and Andrew to discuss and offer follow-up reflections on “Both Times as Tragedy: the Resur...
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A Long Journey From Marxists to Marx, Part 2 -- Ep. 8 from 2020-01-03T19:51:55
This is the long-promised second part of Brendan Cooney’s reflections on his political-theoretical evolution, in an interview conducted by his RFH co-host, Andrew Kliman. The discussion now turns m...
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Implications of the UK Elections -- Ep. 7 from 2019-12-20T18:46:10
Why was the Labour Party trounced so decisively in the December 12 parliamentary elections? What lessons should the pro-Corbyn left take away from the elections? Given that the strategy of much of ...
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The Uprising in Lebanon -- Ep. 6 from 2019-12-06T16:15:51
The co-hosts interview Jade Saab, a Lebanese-Canadian Ph.D. student and author of “Uprising in Lebanon Aims to Replace Entire Political System,” published last month in With Sober Senses. Saab prov...
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A Long Journey From Marxists to Marx Part 1 -- Ep. 5 from 2019-11-22T17:00:33
Brendan Cooney reflects on his political-theoretical evolution in this two-part interview, conducted by his RFH co-host, Andrew Kliman. They discuss the founding of his educational blog, Kapitalism...
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Green New Deal, Interview with Brendan Cooney -- Ep. 4 from 2019-11-08T19:00:04
RFH co-host Brendan Cooney has written and spoken extensively about “left economic populism,” including the Green New Deal (GND). In this episode, Andrew interviews Brendan about the GND, both as e...
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Brexit-Interview with Chris Gilligan -- Ep. 3 from 2019-10-25T16:00:02
The United Kingdom is scheduled to leave the European Union at the end of this month. Are Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s strong-arm tactics going to succeed in making Brexit happen now, “deal or no...
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Fighting White Nationalism. Episode 2 from 2019-10-11T09:00:34
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Obama-Trump Voters. Episode 1 from 2019-09-27T15:49:14
Why did some Obama voters flip to Trump in 2016? Some have argued that Obama-Trump voters were motivated by anti-neoliberal sentiment and that therefore the left should pander to the interests of t...
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