Category: Podcasts

In this new episode of the This Machine Kills podcast, co-hosts Jathan Sadowski and Edward Ongweso Jr. interview Aaron Benanav about the specific details of his proposal for a multi-criterial socialist economy. This is the second episode of a two-parter on the topic, the first part of which you can find out more about here.…

Recently an episode of the FREE (Forum for Real Economic Emancipation) Podcast has been released, in which Grace Blakeley is interviewed by Clara Mattei. In the episode they touch (amongst other topics) upon the question of economic planning in capitalism today and how a genuinely democratic form of ecnomic planning could look like and where…

The german public broadcasting radio Deutschlandfunk Kultur recently published an interview with Jan Groos as part of their podcast series ‘Sein und Streit‘. In the interview the questions of the imagination of better futures, utopias and different models of democratic economic planning as examples of those were discussed. You can listen to the interview here…

In this new episode of the From Alpha To Omega podcast, host Tom O’Brien interviews Ferdia O’Driscoll, one of the co-founders of the International Network for Democratic Economic Planning and the creator of the Bright Age Beyond website and Youtube channel, about what self-determination theory is and why it matters for socialism. This is the…

In this new episode of the This Machine Kills podcast, co-hosts Jathan Sadowski and Edward Ongweso Jr. interview Aaron Benanav about the theoretical foundations of his proposal for a multi-criterial socialist economy. This is the first episode of a two-parter on the topic. A summary can be found below: We’re joined by Aaron Benanav to…

In this episode of The Blockchain Socialist podcast, Dr. Christoph Sorg of the Humboldt University of Berlin is interviewed about his journal article Finance as a form of economic planning, which discusses how the financial system is one of the ways that economic planning happens under capitalism and its implications for the theory and practice…

In this new episode of the From Alpha To Omega podcast, host Tom O’Brien interviews Ferdia O’Driscoll, one of the co-founders of the International Network for Democratic Economic Planning and the creator of the Bright Age Beyond website and Youtube channel, about what self-determination theory is and why it matters for socialism. This is the…

Simon Tremblay-Pepin, a professor at Saint Paul University and a member of the research group on democratic economic planning at the CRITS, was interviewed by Frédérick Aubert on his podcast La Pelotte. The interview is conducted in French and primarily focuses on the book Construire l’économie postcapitaliste (Building a Postcapitalist Economy), but also addresses the…

In this new episode of the Future Histories podcast, host Jan Groos interviews Aaron Benanav, an academic at Cornell University, about the second part of Benanav’s “Beyond Capitalism” essay series in the New Left Review. More specifically, Benanav lays out the institutional design of his proposal of a multi-criterial economy You can watch the episode…

In this new episode of the Future Histories podcast, host Jan Groos interviews Aaron Benanav, an academic at Cornell University, about the first part of Benanav’s “Beyond Capitalism” essay series in the New Left Review. More specifically, in this episode, Benanav lays the groundwork for his proposal of a multi-criterial socialist economy. You can watch…

In a recent episode of the Dissens podcast titled ‘Capitalism is broken, here’s how we overcome it’, Aaron Benanav talks about the economic crises of our times, centralisation of economic and political power and the hype around artificial intelligence. Building on those topics, he develops his own sketch of a democratically planned economy, based on…

Members of the Participatory Economy Project attended and gave presentations at the International Network for Democratic Economic Planning’s first ever in-person conference in Montreal in July 2025. In this recent episode of their podcast, PEP Talk, they discuss what they thought of the event.