The co-hosts expose a real-world case of spurious correlation—the correlation between industry-level “values” and “prices,” drawing on chapter 11 of Andrew’s book, Reclaiming Marx’s “Capital,” and “Christianity versus Alternative Faith Bases,” his parody of the value-price correlation “studies.” They discuss why the value-price correlations are spurious, who started value-price correlation mania and why, what it has to do with Karl Marx’s actual value theory, how Andrew became involved, and more. He refutes objections to his findings made by Paul Cockshott & Allin Cottrell and by Emilio D ..read more

Radio Free Humanity Ep. 114: “Canadian Politics: The White-Nationalist Right & Indigenous Nations (with Theresa Henry).” Current-events segment: Victory against both-sidesism at NBC—dictator-enabling Ronna McDaniel fired after news staffers revolt ..read more

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Radio Free Humanity Ep. 112: “Marx’s Critique of Darimon in the Grundrisse, Part 1.” Interview on Andrew’s article on the critique and Marx’s fight against Proudhonism. Current-events segment: Justice Delayed—SCOTUS to hear Trump’s immunity claim ..read more

Radio Free Humanity Ep. 111: “Accounting for Capitalism’s Economic Crises— Interview with Rob Bryer.” On Rob’s book, “Accounting for Crises,” and Marx’s theory. Current-events segment: Judge Engoron & E. Jean Carroll grab Trump by the purse strings ..read more

Is the “law of value” specifically capitalistic, or does it also operate in socialism? What is the import of Marx’s claim that labor in capitalism is only indirectly social, but that it will be directly social in socialist society? If you’re a worker, what does that mean for you? To address these and related questions, Theresa Henry interviews Andrew about the 1943 article in which the Russian Stalinists revised their previous doctrines. In the Part 2, they discuss why the law of value is specifically capitalist, differences between Marx’s and the Stalinists’ conceptions of directly vs. indire ..read more

RFH Ep 109 Value and Labor Relations in Capitalism and Socialism, Part 1 by MHI ..read more

Radio Free Humanity Ep. 108: “Seth Weiss’s ‘IMHO Tail-ends Hamas, Abandons Marxist-Humanist Philosophy.’” On the concreteness of philosophy, opposing campism, and more. Current-events segment: SCOTUS reinstates Idaho’s ban on emergency abortions ..read more

Andrew Kliman and Gabriel Donnelly welcome Scott Homan and Chad Rhiger to discuss their film, “Witness Underground,” a documentary about young Jehovah’s Witnesses with a shared interest in music who managed to break free from the religion. They discuss Scott and Chad’s lives, the religion’s attitude to truth, and its cruel practice of shunning. The discussion also takes up cultish practices by other groups, religious and political; how to combat cultism; and the experience of “absolute possibility” upon leaving the Jehovah’s Witnesses. Plus current-events segment: SCOCO DQs DJT. Anne Jaclard a ..read more

Andrew Kliman and Gabriel Donnelly interview Yuval Idan, author of “To my Western leftist friends, from your leftist Israeli friend.” This widely read Medium post addresses Western leftists who treated Hamas’ terrorist attack as “an unfortunate situation,” “stayed silent,” or “lecture[d] us about context and resistance.” After recounting her own political history, Yuval and the interviewers discuss the prevalence of such “Western leftist” reactions, why they shocked her, what accounts for them, and why she thinks they have harmed Israeli and Palestinian leftists’ struggle. She lays out how she ..read more