Category: Podcasts

Behind the News, a radio show hosted by writer and political analyst Doug Henwood for about 30 years, has aired an episode on Democratic Economic Planning. In the episode, he receives Aaron Benanav on his recent article published in New Left Review and Jerome Nikolai Warren on the potential of cooperatives. The episode can be…

In this episode of the podcast Tech Won’t Save Us, host Paris Marx interviews Aaron Benanav about his recent articles for the New Left Review that outline his vision for a multi-criterial socialist economy, with this episode focusing on how such an economy can center human experience through democratic discourse to drive social and technological…

In the new episode of the German left-wing “Dissens” Podcast, Matthias Schmelzer talks about the current strategic debates within the climate movement, Degrowth and democratic economic planning. This episode is part of a series on planning, called “Was ist der Plan?”. The previous two episodes in the series are with Christoph Sorg, introducing the topic…

In this episode of the Behind the News podcast, host Doug Henwood interviews Aaron Benanav about his recent article for the New Left Review, where he outlines contemporary possibilities for a democratically planned economy. You can listen to the episode here.

In this episode of The Debunking Economics podcast, post-Keynesian economist Steve Keen and radio broadcaster Phil Dobbie discuss how governments can engage in central planning in a manner that ensures that resources are allocated effectively so that the rich aren’t favoured and the failures of the Soviet-type societies aren’t repeated. This episode is a sequel…

In this episode of the Future Histories podcast, host Jan Groos interviews Anna Kornbluh, a Professor of English at University of Illinois Chicago. They talk about the prevalence of aesthetic immediacy and lack of vision in today’s cultural media and why we need positive pictures and narratives of the future, touching on both, climate-futures and…

In this episode of The Debunking Economics podcast, post-Keynesian economist Steve Keen and radio broadcaster Phil Dobbie discuss the book The People’s Republic of Walmart, which argues that capitalist corporations like Walmart demonstrate how central planning can be realised today without the issues of the Soviet-type societies. The episode can be either listened to or…

The From Alpha to Omega Podcast has recently released a two part interview with Paul S. Adler. The first episode centers on Adler’s 1990 paper “Marx, Machines, and Skill” and the question if capitalism deskills workers. The second episode focuses on Adler’s 2019 book “The 99 Percent Economy. How Democratic Socialism Can Overcome the Crises…

Roger Avelado was interviewed by Tom O’Brien at his From Alpha to Omega podcast about the Vanguard Method. The Vanguard Method is an adaptation of the Toyota Production System (TPS) for the service sector. It proposes moving from a command-and-control approach to one based on systems thinking. Roger Avelado admires the Vanguard Method and argues…

An episode of the “Red Medicine” podcast with interview guest Jess Thorne has recently been released. The episode discusses the topic of worker’s self-management and is thematically close with a report on worker led innovation by Jess Thorne that was published earlier this year. Here’s the description of the podcast episode: “Jess Thorne returns to…

The “From Alpha to Omega” Podcast has released two episodes with Matt Vidal on his book “Management Divided: Contradictions of Labor Management“. Matt gives a detailed Marxist analysis of lean production and it’s implications for a socialist mode of producition. The Interview has been split into two parts. Part 1 can be found here, part…

In a recent episode of the “Tech Won’t Save Us” Podcast, hosted by Paris Marx, Cecilia Rikap ended her interview with calling for the democratic economic planning of AI and cloud infrastructure, especially by countries in the global south. This section of the interview starts at 42:29 of the podcast episode. The episode can be…