• Ep. 89: Four Open-Letter Authors Speak Truth to Historical Materialism

    The co-hosts are joined by four authors who have recently written open letters to Historical Materialism: Gabriel Donnelly, Ralph Keller, Seth Morris, and Vann Seawell. They explain why they have urged the journal to retract a paper, on Marx’s value theory, that is laden with misrepresentations and other falsehoods, and they criticize Historical Materialism’s refusal to retract the paper as well as its indifference to whether the content it publishes is true or false. They also detail specific misrepresentations and inaccuracies in the paper and discuss the political implications of fighting for pro-truth politics against Historical Materialism’s “both sides” posture.


    Plus current-event segment: the continuing “F-word” controversy. On Jacobin author Daniel Bessner’s recent dismissal of the term “fascism” and Jonathan Chait’s revelation of Bessner’s underlying “Left-First” agenda.


    Radio Free Humanity is co-hosted by Brendan Cooney and Andrew Kliman, and sponsored by Marxist-Humanist Initiative (https://www.marxisthumanistinitiative.org/ ). [...]


 

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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 MHI, 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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September 24, 2019