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May 10, 2025 by MHI

Episode 137: Reading Dunayevskaya’s “Form and Plan” in 2025 (Part I)

April 25, 2025 by MHI

Episode 136: Fighting for Humanity in the Digital Space (with guest Gavin Mueller)

April 11, 2025 by MHI

Episode 135: Grossmanism and the Specter of Physical Quantities

March 28, 2025 by MHI

Episode 134: Conversation with a Concerned Austrian Communist about the Far Right

March 14, 2025 by MHI

Episode 133: Marx’s “Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte” … and the Trump Regime

February 28, 2025 by MHI

Episode 132: American Trade Unionism in the Face of Trumpism

February 14, 2025 by MHI

Episode 131: Reading Capital Belatedly: Gabriel Cracks the Spine

January 31, 2025 by MHI

Episode 130: Marx’s Conception of Socialist Society: Responses to Raekstad’s Reading

January 18, 2025 by MHI

Episode 129: Update on the Ukrainian Resistance to Putin’s Invasion (with Ralph Keller)

January 3, 2025 by MHI

Episode 128: The New Stage of Struggle Against Trumpism (Discussion of MHI Editorial)

December 13, 2024 by MHI

Episode 127: The Pro-Truth Pledge and Building a Movement for Truth (with Tim Ward)

November 29, 2024 by MHI

Episode 126: Anti-Rallo: Spanish Libertarian Tries—but Fails-to Destroy Marx’s Capital (with Carlos Ezquerra and Sebastian Hernandez)

November 17, 2024 by MHI

Episode 125: ChatRFH 2.0—Special 125th-Episode Zoom Chat!

October 25, 2024 by MHI

Episode 124: Heinrich’s Failed De(con)struction of Marx’s Falling-Rate-of-Profit-Theory (with Christos Balomenos)

October 4, 2024 by MHI

Episode 123: White Rural Rage (with Jane Michaels)

September 21, 2024 by MHI

Episode 122: New English Translation of Capital, volume 1 (interview with Paul Reitter and Paul North)

September 6, 2024 by MHI

Episode 121: The US Labor Movement: Reflections of Aaron Williams, Veteran Union Staffer and Marxist-Humanist

August 2, 2024 by MHI

Episode 120: Marx’s Conceptions of Freedom and Domination—Interview with Paul Raekstad

July 5, 2024 by MHI

Episode 119: Marx’s Falling Rate of Profit—Ralph Keller Calls Out Seth Ackerman’s “Dead Dog Treatment,” Refutes Error

June 7, 2024 by MHI

Episode 118: The Ethics of Interpretation, or “What Suresh Naidu & Jacobin Really Meant”

May 17, 2024 by MHI

Episode 117: The Politics of Marx’s Capital—Interview with William Clare Roberts

May 3, 2024 by MHI

Episode 116 Is There Life After Tankieism?: BadMouse Recants, BadMouths Stalinism

April 19, 2024 by MHI

Episode 115: Stranger than Truth—Spurious Correlations Between “Values” and “Prices”

April 5, 2024 by MHI

Episode 114: Canadian Politics: The White-Nationalist Right & Indigenous Nations (with Theresa Henry)

March 22, 2024 by MHI

Episode 113: Marx’s Critique of Darimon in the Grundrisse, Part 2

March 9, 2024 by MHI

Episode 112: Marx’s Critique of Darimon in the Grundrisse, Part 1

February 23, 2024 by MHI

Episode 111: Accounting for Capitalism’s Economic Crises—Interview with Rob Bryer

February 9, 2024 by MHI

Episode 110: Value and Labor Relations in Capitalism and Socialism, Part 2

January 26, 2024 by MHI

Episode 109: Value and Labor Relations in Capitalism and Socialism, Part 1

January 12, 2024 by MHI

Episode 108: Seth Weiss’s “IMHO Tail-ends Hamas, Abandons Marxist-Humanist Philosophy”

December 31, 2023 by MHI

Episode 107: “Witness Underground” Filmmakers on the Jehovah’s Witnesses (and other cults, religious & political)

December 15, 2023 by MHI

Episode 106: “With Friends Like These …”: Israeli Leftist Yuval Idan Responds to “Western Leftist Friends”

December 1, 2023 by MHI

Episode 105: “What can stop Trumpism?”

November 17, 2023 by MHI

Episode 104: “From Each According to Their Ability, to Each According to Their Needs”—Part 2

November 6, 2023 by MHI

Episode 103: “From Each According to Their Ability, to Each According to Their Needs”—Part 1

October 21, 2023 by MHI

Episode 102: Our Political-Epistemological Crisis (interview with Steven Nadler & Lawrence Shapiro)

October 6, 2023 by MHI

Episode 101: Anti-Trans Politics (interview with Ettingermentum)

September 14, 2023 by MHI

Episode 100: ChatRFH—Special 100th-Episode Zoom Chat!

August 18, 2023 by MHI

Episode 99: Right-wing Environmentalism—Interview with Peter Staudenmaier

July 28, 2023 by MHI

Episode 98: Breaking Free from the Trumpist Bubble—Interview with Jane Michaels

July 14, 2023 by MHI

Episode 97: Great Caesar’s Ghost! Jacobin Becomes Communications Strategist for Democratic Party

June 30, 2023 by MHI

Episode 96: Philosophy and the Transformation of Reality: Marx vs. Hegel and Feuerbach

June 9, 2023 by MHI

Episode 95: Trump (and Trump-Accommodationists) vs. the Rule of Law—interview with Seth Morris

May 26, 2023 by MHI

Episode 94: Dangers of Artificial Intelligence

May 12, 2023 by MHI

Episode 93: The Ongoing Crisis and Protests in Israel (interview with Avishai Green)

April 28, 2023 by MHI

Episode 92: “Wokeness” Criticized from the Left (interview with Susan Neiman)

April 14, 2023 by MHI

Episode 91: Economics of Socialism (with Nick Rogers)

March 31, 2023 by MHI

Episode 90: The Quack Attack on Americans’ Healthcare (interview with Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling)

March 17, 2023 by MHI

Episode 89: Four Open-Letter Authors Speak Truth to Historical Materialism

March 3, 2023 by MHI

Episode 88: Pseudo-Anti-Imperialism Defends the Indefensible—interview with Rohini Hensman

February 17, 2023 by MHI

Episode 87: The New Independent Union Organizing (interview with Felix Allen of Lowe’s Workers United)

February 3, 2023 by MHI

Episode 86: Deepening Revolt Against Iran’s Theocratic Regime (with Theresa Henry)

January 20, 2023 by MHI

Episode 85: Value, Price & Prattle: A Response to Lopes, Byron, and Historical Materialism

January 6, 2023 by MHI

Episode 84: Resurgent Union Organizing in the US (with Gabriel Donnelly)

December 23, 2022 by MHI

Episode 83: Causes of the Climate Crisis: Consumers and Politicians, or Capitalist Production?

December 3, 2022 by MHI

Episode 82: Ukrainian National Self-Determination: Answering Today’s “Imperialist Economism” and Campism

November 18, 2022 by MHI

Episode 81: Tankie Denialism, Holocaust Denialism – Interview with Sergey Romanov & Nicholas Terry

November 4, 2022 by MHI

Episode 80: Interview with Ukrainian Socialist Maksym Shumakov

October 21, 2022 by MHI

Episode 79: Dunayevskaya’s 1953 Letters: Transcending Vanguardism & Spontaneism

October 7, 2022 by MHI

Episode 78: The U.S. and the Holocaust

September 23, 2022 by MHI

Episode 77: Capitalist Exploitation – G. A. Cohen & Ben Burgis vs. Karl Marx

September 9, 2022 by MHI

Episode 76: “Sociological Marxism” and Capitalist Crises––Interview with Gavin Rae

August 26, 2022 by MHI

Episode 75: The “Dobbs” Decision & the Ongoing Fight for Abortion Rights (with Anne Jaclard)

August 5, 2022 by MHI

Episode 74: Marx on the Transformation of Capitalism into Communism

July 22, 2022 by MHI

Episode 73: Furedi’s Long Journey from Revolution to Reaction (interview with Ravi Bali)

July 8, 2022 by MHI

Episode 72: Chomsky’s Linguistics & Politics—Interview with David Golumbia

June 24, 2022 by MHI

Episode 71: The Cybercurrency Crash—Interview with David Golumbia

June 10, 2022 by MHI

Episode 70: The Gun Violence / White Power Connection (interview with John Stoehr)

May 27, 2022 by MHI

Episode 69: Henryk Grossman and “The End of Capitalism” (interview with Ted Reese)

May 13, 2022 by MHI

Episode 68: Chomsky on Ukraine, and the Universal Grammar of Whataboutism (with Bill Weinberg)

April 29, 2022 by MHI

Episode 67: A Metabolic Mess: On Foster & Clark’s “The Robbery of Nature”

April 15, 2022 by MHI

Episode 66: How Not to Evaluate the Relevance of “Capital”

March 25, 2022 by MHI

Episode 65: Rohini Hensman on Ukraine’s Protracted Struggle for National Liberation

March 13, 2022 by MHI

Episode 64: Ukraine Fights for National Self-Determination Against Russian Imperialism

March 4, 2022 by MHI

Episode 63: Bitcoin and Cyber-libertarianism—Interview with David Golumbia

February 18, 2022 by MHI

Episode 62: Participatory Economics (Parecon)––Interview with Michael Albert

February 4, 2022 by MHI

Episode 61: Defending Liberal Democracy: On What Grounds?

January 21, 2022 by MHI

Episode 60: The Jan. 6 Fascist Insurrectionists: Enemy of Jacobin’s Enemy

January 7, 2022 by MHI

Episode 59: Capitalism and the Ecological Crisis

December 24, 2021 by MHI

Episode 58: Preparing for Constant Struggle Against Rising Authoritarianism and Continuing Chaos

December 10, 2021 by MHI

Episode 57: Rittenhouse Goes Unpunished; Arbery’s Murderers and Charlottesville Organizers Do Not

November 26, 2021 by MHI

Episode 56: Jacobin’s “Autopsy Report”: We Could Have Told Them So (and We Did)

November 12, 2021 by MHI

Episode 55: “Both Sides” Now: What’s Happened to the Alt-Right?

October 29, 2021 by MHI

Episode 54: Dunayevskaya on the Nature of the Stalinist Russian Economy

October 16, 2021 by MHI

Episode 53: Henryk Grossmann’s Breakdown Model

September 24, 2021 by MHI

Episode 52: The TSSI in Latin America: Breaking the Blockade

September 11, 2021 by MHI

Episode 51: Marx’s Reproduction Schemes: Unbalanced Growth and Critique of Trickle-Down Economics

August 24, 2021 by MHI

Episode 50: Marxism vs. Resurgent Tankieism (interview with László Molnárfi, university student in Ireland)

August 6, 2021 by MHI

Episode 49: Populist Rhetoric as Bullshit (interview with Avishai Green)

July 23, 2021 by MHI

Episode 48: Keith Kahn-Harris on Denialism––and Post-Denialism

July 9, 2021 by MHI

Episode 47: Ravi Bali on Conducting Arguments in an Honest, Revolutionary Manner

June 25, 2021 by MHI

Episode 46: Argumentation and Exploitation—Interview with Ben Burgis (Part 2)

June 11, 2021 by MHI

Episode 45: Argumentation and Exploitation – Interview with Ben Burgis (Part 1)

May 28, 2021 by MHI

Episode 44: “The State and Revolution” Reconsidered

May 15, 2021 by MHI

Episode 43: The Struggle for Black Lives After the Minneapolis Verdict

May 1, 2021 by MHI

Episode 42: A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear

April 17, 2021 by MHI

Episode 41: Is There a Non-Capitalist Way Forward for the Global South?

April 2, 2021 by MHI

Episode 40: COVID-19 Containment and the “Freedom-Loving” Backlash

March 20, 2021 by MHI

Episode 39: Michael Heinrich and F. H. Pitts’ Attempt to Eliminate Marx’s Crisis Theory

March 6, 2021 by MHI

Episode 38: Trump’s Base––Interview with David Norman Smith (Part 2)

February 20, 2021 by MHI

Episode 37: AOC’s Well-Being vs. Greenwald’s Sexist, Red-Brown Politics

February 6, 2021 by MHI

Episode 36: Trump’s Base––Interview with David Norman Smith (Part 1)

January 23, 2021 by MHI

Episode 35: Dunayevskaya on the Independence of the Black Struggle from the “General Class Struggle”

January 9, 2021 by MHI

Episode 34: Dunayevskaya on the “Vulgarization of Marxism” and Russian State-Capitalism

December 18, 2020 by MHI

Episode 33: Alternatives to Capitalism: What Happens After the Revolution?

December 5, 2020 by MHI

Episode 32: Making Marx Make Sense: The Early Years

November 20, 2020 by MHI

Episode 31: Marx’s Crisis Theory: New Spanish Defense

November 7, 2020 by MHI

Episode 30: Use-Value and Exchange-Value … and Value

October 24, 2020 by MHI

Episode 29: Kenya’s Response to COVID-19 (contrasted to that of Trumpist USA)

October 10, 2020 by MHI

Episode 28: Lebanon’s Protest Movement Since the Beirut Explosion

September 26, 2020 by MHI

Episode 27: Reading “American Civilization on Trial” in Costa Rica

September 13, 2020 by MHI

Episode 26: Dialogue with Patrick Murray on the Value-Form Paradigm, Part 2

August 29, 2020 by MHI

Episode 25: Dialogue with Patrick Murray on the Value-Form Paradigm, Part 1

August 14, 2020 by MHI

Episode 24: Combating Tankie Denialism: Specialist in Soviet History Rebuts Grover Furr

July 31, 2020 by MHI

Episode 23: The Rise of the Extreme Right in Europe

July 17, 2020 by MHI

Episode 22: A Post-Capitalist Future––Not by Politics Alone

July 3, 2020 by MHI

Episode 21: Consigned to the Jaco-dustbin of History

June 19, 2020 by MHI

Episode 20: Cockshott versus Marx––Interview with “RV”

June 5, 2020 by MHI

Episode 19: Spanish Edition of “Reclaiming Marx’s ‘Capital’”––Interview with Translator

May 22, 2020 by MHI

Episode 18: The Value-Form Paradigm vs. Marx’s “Capital,” Part 2

May 8, 2020 by MHI

Episode 17: The Value-Form Paradigm vs. Marx’s “Capital,” Part 1

April 24, 2020 by MHI

Episode 16: Dunayevskaya’s Life and & Legacy––Interview with Anne Jaclard

April 12, 2020 by MHI

Episode 15: Dunayevskaya’s Revolutionary Interpretation of Hegel’s Dialectical Philosophy

March 28, 2020 by MHI

Episode 14: The New Game-Changing Inequality Database

March 13, 2020 by MHI

Episode 13: The Tankie Craze, Part 2—Disillusioned Radical Youth Fighting Stalinism

February 28, 2020 by MHI

Episode 12: Inequality of Wealth in the U.S.

February 14, 2020 by MHI

Episode 11: Defending, and Transcending, Liberal Democracy

February 1, 2020 by MHI

Episode 10: Marx’s “Critique of the Gotha Program”

January 17, 2020 by MHI

Episode 9: The Tankie Craze––Resurgent Stalinism among Youth

January 3, 2020 by MHI

Episode 8: A Long Journey From Marxists to Marx, Part 2

December 20, 2019 by MHI

Episode 7: Implications of the UK Elections

December 6, 2019 by MHI

Episode 6: The Uprising in Lebanon

November 22, 2019 by MHI

Episode 5: A Long Journey From Marxists to Marx, Part 1

November 8, 2019 by MHI

Episode 4: Green New Deal–Interview with Brendan Cooney

October 25, 2019 by MHI

Episode 3: Brexit-Interview with Chris Gilligan

October 11, 2019 by MHI

Episode 2: Fighting White Nationalism

September 26, 2019 by MHI

Episode 1: Obama-Trump Voters

Opposing Annexation and Transforming Canada (Zoom Meeting)

Join us (on Zoom) on April 27, 2025, from 1:00-3:00 pm EDT for our meeting: “Opposing Annexation and Transforming Canada.”

Theresa Henry will read from a draft article for With Sober Senses on the need and possibility for international solidarity between Indigenous sovereigntists and Canadian workers against Trump’s threats of economic coercion and annexation. She will argue that assertions of Indigenous nationhood are the ground of such solidarity and that it is in Canadian workers’ interests to support Indigenous sovereignty movements.

To attend, send MHI a request to attend by April 24; state briefly why you’re interested in MHI and your location.

ChatRFH–Special Live Ep. 125 of Radio Free Humanity

Sunday, Nov. 10, 2024, 1 – 3 pm EST

Live dialogue between the online audience and the co-hosts. The episode will be streamed live and also recorded. Participation is open to all. See our article for more information.

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“Raya Dunayevskaya: Biography of an Idea”

MHI is happy to distribute this documentary film by Alex Fletcher. It explores many major concepts of the philosopher, activist, and feminist Raya Dunayevskaya, who developed Marxist-Humanism over much of the last century, up until her death in 1987. The 79-minute film contains rare video clips of her speeches and offers glimpses of material in her archives, as well as featuring interviews of 3 MHI members who belonged to Dunayevskaya’s organization during her lifetime.

Film now available here. Review and trailer here.

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FILM AVAILABLE

“Raya Dunayevskaya: Biography of an Idea”

MHI is happy to distribute this documentary film by Alex Fletcher. It explores many major concepts of the philosopher, activist, and feminist Raya Dunayevskaya, who developed Marxist-Humanism over much of the last century, up until her death in 1987. The 79-minute film contains rare video clips of her speeches and offers glimpses of material in her archives, as well as featuring interviews of 3 MHI members who belonged to Dunayevskaya’s organization during her lifetime.

Film now available here. Review and trailer here.

Contact us if you would like MHI to join a discussion at your screening:
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Kliman-Harvey Marx Debate

“Capitalism’s Crises: A Debate”

Contributions by Andrew Kliman, David Harvey, and Doug Lain. Appendix by Raya Dunayevskaya.

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Marxist-Humanist Archives

This website’s Archives page contains numerous writings by Raya Dunayevskaya from 1941-1987 and some additional Marxist-Humanist writings. More documents will be added, including some not available elsewhere.

The major archive of Dunayevskaya’s works, The Raya Dunayevskaya Collection––more than 17,000 pages in addition to her books, audios, and videos––is housed in Wayne State University’s Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Walter P. Reuther Library in Detroit, MI. The Guide to the Collection is available here, and microfilm of the papers is on sale from Wayne State.

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