{"id":63322,"date":"2026-08-13T09:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T23:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/?p=63322"},"modified":"2026-08-12T18:37:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T08:37:03","slug":"radio-mmt-episode-79-bill-mitchell-marx-socialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/?p=63322","title":{"rendered":"Radio MMT &#8211; Episode 79 Bill Mitchell: Marx &#038; Socialism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am travelling most of today and have commitments at the other end. So I have meaning to post his podcast I did with Melbourne radio station 3CR in July, so today is a good time to make it available here.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As I understand it, this is an edited version of a longer talk that was broadcast live on Friday, July 24, 2026 to the 3CR Melbourne audience.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the link to the show: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.3cr.org.au\/radiommt\/episode\/079-bill-mitchell-marx-socialism\">#079 Bill Mitchell: Marx &#038; Socialism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The use of the song &#8211; &#8216;The Revolution was Postponed Because of Rain&#8217; &#8211; by one of my favourite bands &#8211; Brooklyn Funk Essentials &#8211; was prompted by a conversation I had with Kevin prior to the live appearance.<\/p>\n<p>I thought it was very apt for the topic Kevin proposed.<\/p>\n<p>Have another listen &#8211; this band is really great.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LmuVrbaTtbA?si=kQdyihuYdGC12OoL\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>And, thanks to Kevin and Anne for inviting me to the 3CR studio and for the effort they put in to promote Modern Monetary Theory (MMT).<\/p>\n<p>That is enough for today!<\/p>\n<p>(c) Copyright 2026 William Mitchell. All Rights Reserved. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am travelling most of today and have commitments at the other end. So I have meaning to post his podcast I did with Melbourne radio station 3CR in July, so today is a good time to make it available here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[40,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-podcast","entry","no-media"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}