Category: Podcasts

The German Podcast “Geschichte der kommenden Welten” (history of coming worlds) has published a podcast on the history of the struggle over socialization of the coal industry in Germany. This podcast was created in cooperation with the think tank “Communia” and was inspired by their recently published report on the history of socialization of the…

The podcast General Intellect Unit has ended its hiatus through releasing an episode where host Kyle Thompson and our very own James Macumber discuss the essay “Beyond Capitalism—I” by Aaron Benanav that was published in New Left Review, which outlines the theoretical foundations of Benanav’s proposal for a multi-criterial socialism. A summary of the podcast…

Radio Arbetarbildning, a Swedish documentary podcast produced by an independent Marxist workers’ educational association, has published a short episode about Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara’s views on socialist economics, and about the Cuban ‘Great Debate’ which took place during the early years of the Cuban revolution. The podcast is in Swedish and can be heard here.

Recently Hugo Pompougnac, president of the think tank Espaces Marx, has interview INDEP co-founder Eric Meier for the first episode of the podcast “World on the Brink”, which is hosted by Espaces Marx. In the interview they talked about INDEP itself, the involved partner organisations and members, the current state of the discourse on democratic…

In this episode of the LBO News podcast, Doug Henwood interviews Aaron Benanav about his report published by the Autonomy think-tank that outlines his proposed transition strategy to realise a multi-criterial socialist economy. You can listen to the interview here, while you can read Benanav’s report for Autonomy here.

Tomas Härdin and David Zachariah recently appeared on the Swedish podcast Fredshetsarna (The Peacemongers). They talk about the letter Tomas wrote for Proletären (Only a global planned economy can solve the environmental crisis) and about an upcoming article that David and Tomas are working on. Other topics of conversation include the Soviet debate on planning,…

In this episode of the podcast From Alpha to Omega, host Tom O’Brien discusses Donal Ó Coisdealbha’s recent series of posts on his blog The Office For Control Over Results reviewing the book Supply Chain Science by Wallace J. Hopp and the implications for socialist planning. You can watch this episode here, while you can…

In this episode of the Future Histories podcast, host Jan Groos talks to Yousaf Nishat-Botero of the University of Birmingham about how ecological planning could operate in the 21st century through discussing a municipalist example in the form of the Office of Strategic Planning for the Barcelona metropolitan region. You can watch the episode here.

In this episode of the Future Histories podcast, host Jan Groos talks to Cédric Durand of the University of Geneva about the history, theory and contemporary practice of ecological planning. You can watch this episode here.

The Ones and Tooze podcast has released an episode where Adam Tooze, professor at Columbia University and Cameron Abadi, a deputy editor at Foreign Policy, discuss the history of economic planning in China from the Maoist era to the present day. Adam and Cameron then use this historical discussion to critically evaluate the 15th Five-Year…

In this episode of the podcast Critical Theory in Context, Jacob Blumenfeld interviews Aaron Benanav of Cornell University about Benanav’s proposal for a multi-criterial socialist economy. A summary of this episode (from the episodes website) can be found here: Should we be making recipes for the cook shops of the future? In part two of…

In this episode of the podcast Critical Theory In Context, Jacob Blumenfeld discusses the socialist calculation debate and its contemporary implications with John O’Neill of the University of Manchester. A summary of this episode (from the episode’s website) can be found here: What does it mean to plan an economy rationally—and who gets to decide…