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Episode 86: Deepening Revolt Against Iran’s Theocratic Regime (with Theresa Henry)
The co-hosts interview Theresa Henry, author of recent articles on the ongoing revolt. They discuss the growth, deepening, and broadening of the rebellion, in the face of the Iranian regime’s efforts to crush it by means of executions and other forms of violence. Theresa highlights the leading role of women in the revolt, the activity of youth, and strikes by oilworkers. Contradictions within the rebellion are also discussed, as is the relation of the current stage of revolt to past revolutions and rebellions in Iran. Plus current current-events segment: the police murder of Tyre Nichols and the fightback against it. Radio Free Humanity is co-hosted by Brendan Cooney and Andrew Kliman, and sponsored by Marxist-Humanist Initiative (https://www.marxisthumanistinitiative.org/ ). [...]
WHAT IS RADIO FREE HUMANITY?
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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All Episodes of Radio Free Humanity
- Episode 86: Deepening Revolt Against Iran’s Theocratic Regime (with Theresa Henry) (2/3/2023)
- Episode 85: Value, Price & Prattle: A Response to Lopes, Byron, and Historical Materialism (1/20/2023)
- Episode 84: Resurgent Union Organizing in the US (with Gabriel Donnelly) (1/6/2023)
- Episode 83: Causes of the Climate Crisis: Consumers and Politicians, or Capitalist Production? (12/23/2022)
- Episode 82: Ukrainian National Self-Determination: Answering Today’s “Imperialist Economism” and Campism (12/3/2022)
- Episode 81: Tankie Denialism, Holocaust Denialism – Interview with Sergey Romanov & Nicholas Terry (11/18/2022)
- Episode 80: Interview with Ukrainian Socialist Maksym Shumakov (11/4/2022)
- Episode 79: Dunayevskaya’s 1953 Letters: Transcending Vanguardism & Spontaneism (10/21/2022)
- Episode 78: The U.S. and the Holocaust (10/7/2022)
- Episode 77: Capitalist Exploitation – G. A. Cohen & Ben Burgis vs. Karl Marx (9/23/2022)
- Episode 76: “Sociological Marxism” and Capitalist Crises––Interview with Gavin Rae (9/9/2022)
- Episode 75: The “Dobbs” Decision & the Ongoing Fight for Abortion Rights (with Anne Jaclard) (8/26/2022)
- Episode 74: Marx on the Transformation of Capitalism into Communism (8/5/2022)
- Episode 73: Furedi’s Long Journey from Revolution to Reaction (interview with Ravi Bali) (7/22/2022)
- Episode 72: Chomsky’s Linguistics & Politics—Interview with David Golumbia (7/8/2022)
- Episode 71: The Cybercurrency Crash—Interview with David Golumbia (6/24/2022)
- Episode 70: The Gun Violence / White Power Connection (interview with John Stoehr) (6/10/2022)
- Episode 69: Henryk Grossman and “The End of Capitalism” (interview with Ted Reese) (5/27/2022)
- Episode 68: Chomsky on Ukraine, and the Universal Grammar of Whataboutism (with Bill Weinberg) (5/13/2022)
- Episode 67: A Metabolic Mess: On Foster & Clark’s “The Robbery of Nature” (4/29/2022)
- Episode 66: How Not to Evaluate the Relevance of “Capital” (4/15/2022)
- Episode 65: Rohini Hensman on Ukraine’s Protracted Struggle for National Liberation (3/25/2022)
- Episode 64: Ukraine Fights for National Self-Determination Against Russian Imperialism (3/13/2022)
- Episode 63: Bitcoin and Cyber-libertarianism—Interview with David Golumbia (3/4/2022)
- Episode 62: Participatory Economics (Parecon)––Interview with Michael Albert (2/18/2022)
- Episode 61: Defending Liberal Democracy: On What Grounds? (2/4/2022)
- Episode 60: The Jan. 6 Fascist Insurrectionists: Enemy of Jacobin’s Enemy (1/21/2022)
- Episode 59: Capitalism and the Ecological Crisis (1/7/2022)
- Episode 58: Preparing for Constant Struggle Against Rising Authoritarianism and Continuing Chaos (12/24/2021)
- Episode 57: Rittenhouse Goes Unpunished; Arbery’s Murderers and Charlottesville Organizers Do Not (12/10/2021)
- Episode 56: Jacobin’s “Autopsy Report”: We Could Have Told Them So (and We Did) (11/26/2021)
- Episode 55: “Both Sides” Now: What’s Happened to the Alt-Right? (11/12/2021)
- Episode 54: Dunayevskaya on the Nature of the Stalinist Russian Economy (10/29/2021)
- Episode 53: Henryk Grossmann’s Breakdown Model (10/16/2021)
- Episode 52: The TSSI in Latin America: Breaking the Blockade (9/24/2021)
- Episode 51: Marx’s Reproduction Schemes: Unbalanced Growth and Critique of Trickle-Down Economics (9/11/2021)
- Episode 50: Marxism vs. Resurgent Tankieism (interview with László Molnárfi, university student in Ireland) (8/24/2021)
- Episode 49: Populist Rhetoric as Bullshit (interview with Avishai Green) (8/6/2021)
- Episode 48: Keith Kahn-Harris on Denialism––and Post-Denialism (7/23/2021)
- Episode 47: Ravi Bali on Conducting Arguments in an Honest, Revolutionary Manner (7/9/2021)
- Episode 46: Argumentation and Exploitation—Interview with Ben Burgis (Part 2) (6/25/2021)
- Episode 45: Argumentation and Exploitation – Interview with Ben Burgis (Part 1) (6/11/2021)
- Episode 44: “The State and Revolution” Reconsidered (5/28/2021)
- Episode 43: The Struggle for Black Lives After the Minneapolis Verdict (5/15/2021)
- Episode 42: A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear (5/1/2021)
- Episode 41: Is There a Non-Capitalist Way Forward for the Global South? (4/17/2021)
- Episode 40: COVID-19 Containment and the “Freedom-Loving” Backlash (4/2/2021)
- Episode 39: Michael Heinrich and F. H. Pitts’ Attempt to Eliminate Marx’s Crisis Theory (3/20/2021)
- Episode 38: Trump’s Base––Interview with David Norman Smith (Part 2) (3/6/2021)
- Episode 37: AOC’s Well-Being vs. Greenwald’s Sexist, Red-Brown Politics (2/20/2021)
- Episode 36: Trump’s Base––Interview with David Norman Smith (Part 1) (2/6/2021)
- Episode 35: Dunayevskaya on the Independence of the Black Struggle from the “General Class Struggle” (1/23/2021)
- Episode 34: Dunayevskaya on the “Vulgarization of Marxism” and Russian State-Capitalism (1/9/2021)
- Episode 33: Alternatives to Capitalism: What Happens After the Revolution? (12/18/2020)
- Episode 32: Making Marx Make Sense: The Early Years (12/5/2020)
- Episode 31: Marx’s Crisis Theory: New Spanish Defense (11/20/2020)
- Episode 30: Use-Value and Exchange-Value … and Value (11/7/2020)
- Episode 29: Kenya’s Response to COVID-19 (contrasted to that of Trumpist USA) (10/24/2020)
- Episode 28: Lebanon’s Protest Movement Since the Beirut Explosion (10/10/2020)
- Episode 27: Reading “American Civilization on Trial” in Costa Rica (9/26/2020)
- Episode 26: Dialogue with Patrick Murray on the Value-Form Paradigm, Part 2 (9/13/2020)
- Episode 25: Dialogue with Patrick Murray on the Value-Form Paradigm, Part 1 (8/29/2020)
- Episode 24: Combating Tankie Denialism: Specialist in Soviet History Rebuts Grover Furr (8/14/2020)
- Episode 23: The Rise of the Extreme Right in Europe (7/31/2020)
- Episode 22: A Post-Capitalist Future––Not by Politics Alone (7/17/2020)
- Episode 21: Consigned to the Jaco-dustbin of History (7/3/2020)
- Episode 20: Cockshott versus Marx––Interview with “RV” (6/19/2020)
- Episode 19: Spanish Edition of “Reclaiming Marx’s ‘Capital’”––Interview with Translator (6/5/2020)
- Episode 18: The Value-Form Paradigm vs. Marx’s “Capital,” Part 2 (5/22/2020)
- Episode 17: The Value-Form Paradigm vs. Marx’s “Capital,” Part 1 (5/8/2020)
- Episode 16: Dunayevskaya’s Life and & Legacy––Interview with Anne Jaclard (4/24/2020)
- Episode 15: Dunayevskaya’s Revolutionary Interpretation of Hegel’s Dialectical Philosophy (4/12/2020)
- Episode 14: The New Game-Changing Inequality Database (3/28/2020)
- Episode 13: The Tankie Craze, Part 2—Disillusioned Radical Youth Fighting Stalinism (3/13/2020)
- Episode 12: Inequality of Wealth in the U.S. (2/28/2020)
- Episode 11: Defending, and Transcending, Liberal Democracy (2/14/2020)
- Episode 10: Marx’s “Critique of the Gotha Program” (2/1/2020)
- Episode 9: The Tankie Craze––Resurgent Stalinism among Youth (1/17/2020)
- Episode 8: A Long Journey From Marxists to Marx, Part 2 (1/3/2020)
- Episode 7: Implications of the UK Elections (12/20/2019)
- Episode 6: The Uprising in Lebanon (12/6/2019)
- Episode 5: A Long Journey From Marxists to Marx, Part 1 (11/22/2019)
- Episode 4: Green New Deal–Interview with Brendan Cooney (11/8/2019)
- Episode 3: Brexit-Interview with Chris Gilligan (10/25/2019)
- Episode 2: Fighting White Nationalism (10/11/2019)
- Episode 1: Obama-Trump Voters (9/26/2019)
September 24, 2019