Liberation Audio

About Liberation Audio

Socialist news and analysis from the front lines of struggle. Project of the Party for Socialism and Liberation.

Publisher

Liberation Audio

Category

news

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

11 Feb 2020

Latest episode

11 Jan 2025

Latest episodes

364 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   11 Jan 2025

   Overproduction: The absurdity of suffering amidst surpluses

   Liberation Audio host explores the absurdity of overproduction in capitalism, highlighting contradictions between surpluses and suffering with experts in the field.

2. 

   3 Sept 2024

   Thomas Sankara: Assessing the 3rd year of a revolutionary process

   The eighth installment in Liberation School’s series of previously untranslated works by Thomas Sankara is published on the day Sankara was born in 1949. We would like to thank Bruno Jaffré and the editorial team of ThomasSankara.net for letting us translate and publish these works and the following interview dated September 20, 1985. The text is from an interview with Thomas Sankara conducted by a graduate student, which results in, as Jaffré notes in his introduction, a unique style of dialogue. It was originally published in French under the title provided by the student, “At the dawn of the third year of the revolution, the birth of a new society.” Read the full article here: https://www.liberationschool.org/thomas-sankara-assesses-year-3-of-the-revolution/

3. 

   31 Jul 2024

   The class struggle in every commodity: Use value and exchange value

   Every year, Pew Research publishes a study on the U.S. population’s political priorities. Their 2024 report shows that, like the previous years, “no single issue stands out after the economy,” with almost 75 percent of respondents rating it the main goal for the next administration, a rate “considerably larger” than any other policy. Yet when we see pundits discuss “the economy” on the news, they speak an obscuring language. The economy is an abstraction, in that there is no such “thing” as the economy. What we call “the economy” is, in reality, the ways that humans produce, distribute, exchange, and consume products or services. In this sense, “the economy” has a history as long as humanity. Yet there are different ways of organizing the economy. Unlike what we’re taught, the capitalist economy is a relatively recent phenomenon and is neither the final, just, most effective, nor possible form of organizing what, how, and why we produce. The introductory article to this series ended with one of the most foundational of the contradictions of capitalism: between use value and exchange value. Understanding this one contradiction goes a long way in helping understand the antagonism between those of us who live by working and the few of them who live by making us work. The conflict between use value and exchange value is an expression of the struggle between classes. This entry explains some aspects of the contradiction between use value and exchange value, how they help us better understand the world around us, and some ways we can wield that understanding to explain the exploitation humans, all living creatures, and the Earth suffer from, which is necessary for eliminating the root cause of that suffering. Read the original article here: https://www.liberationschool.org/use-value-exchange-value/

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

51 ratings

Spotify

4.8 / 5

90 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 48 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

59

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

93

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