Red Library: A Political Education Podcast for Today's Left

THE NEW SHOW HAS ARRIVED. Welcome....to Subjective Conditions: Exploring the Mind and Body Under Capitalism! Comrade Adam/Chairman Bane is joined by The Comrade That Cannot Be Perceived, Courtney, and Jess for our inaugural episode.  LET'S GET GALAXY-BRAINED, COMRADES. Show References Psychedelic White Internal Family Systems (IFS) Complex PTSD (C-PTSD) Subjective Conditions Patreon Page

In the series finale of Red Library - A Political Education Podcast for Today's Left, we bring you a massive 3 part foray into the alchemical and esoteric labyrinth of Hegel and his relation to the Hermetic Tradition. This is a spiritual sequel to The Enchantments of Mammon series and the most goth/magikal episode we have ever done so who better to join us than our podrades from The Regrettable Century? Pt. 2 has our Comrade in Christ™ and RIP Kevin™ leading up chapters on Hegel's early philosophical development and the Phenomenology of Spirit's relationship to Hermeticism. It's been a hell of a ride and we are going out by turning that philosophical lead into gold the Red Library way (i.e. with meme references and live shitposting)! ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibrarypodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod Click here to listen to the Lost Horizons Network podcast Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes  Click here to support Red Library on Patreon Click here to find Red Library on Facebook Click here to find the host's political theory blog, Capillaries: Theory at the Front

In the series finale of Red Library - A Political Education Podcast for Today's Left, we bring you a massive 3 part foray into the alchemical and esoteric labyrinth of Hegel and his relation to the Hermetic Tradition. This is a spiritual sequel to The Enchantments of Mammon series and the most goth/magikal episode we have ever done so who better to join us than our podrades from The Regrettable Century? Pt. 2 has our Comrade in Christ™ and RIP Kevin™ leading up chapters on Hegel's early philosophical development and the Phenomenology of Spirit's relationship to Hermeticism. It's been a hell of a ride and we are going out by turning that philosophical lead into gold the Red Library way (i.e. with meme references and live shitposting)! ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibrarypodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod Click here to listen to the Lost Horizons Network podcast Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes  Click here to support Red Library on Patreon Click here to find Red Library on Facebook Click here to find the host's political theory blog, Capillaries: Theory at the Front

In the series finale of Red Library - A Political Education Podcast for Today's Left, we bring you a massive 3 part foray into the alchemical and esoteric labyrinth of Hegel and his relation to the Hermetic Tradition. This is a spiritual sequel to The Enchantments of Mammon series and the most goth/magikal episode we have ever done so who better to join us than our podrades from The Regrettable Century? It's been a hell of a ride and we are going out by turning that philosophical lead into gold the Red Library way (i.e. with meme references and live shitposting)! ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibrarypodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod Click here to listen to the Lost Horizons Network podcast Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes  Click here to support Red Library on Patreon Click here to find Red Library on Facebook Click here to find the host's political theory blog, Capillaries: Theory at the Front

It's an All-Star Lost Horizons Network Cast™ as we finally get into our promised right-wing/reactionary/fascist thinkers tier list!   The Regrettable Century Gang, our Comrade in Christ™, Mir, CC Don, and Chairman Bane dive into part 1 of the list. Everyone will be outed as a closet reactionary by the end. We will finally become Red-Brown Library: A Political Education Podcast for Today's Strasserites at long last! ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibrarypodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod Click here to listen to the Lost Horizons Network podcast Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes  Click here to support Red Library on Patreon Click here to find Red Library on Facebook Click here to find the host's political theory blog, Capillaries: Theory at the Front

We Out Here™ for Plowin' with McGowan Pt. 8. It's time for the final battle. It's the Red Library Lacanian/Marxist version of AvengersInfinityWarEndgame™.  More Red Troika DAGGERS OUT™ action abounds on the last two chapters of McGowan with closing thoughts. Chairman Bane aka White Morpheus aka Comrade Adam leads the final two chapters on scarcity and abundance and the sublime and the market. Final thoughts happen. Shit talking does occur. Lessons are learned. A new day dawns. Reality is often disappointing. Further Reading/References Lost Horizons Podcasting Network Todd McGowan Why Theory? Podcast Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets Review ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibrarypodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod Click here to listen to the Lost Horizons Network podcast Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes  Click here to support Red Library on Patreon Click here to find Red Library on Facebook Click here to find the host's political theory blog, Capillaries: Theory at the Front

A Lost Horizons Network Collaboration It's time once again for Real Nerd Hourz with our podrades from The Regrettable Century! And we decided to keep it chill this time and read a book together that is only 1000 pages. We join forces to kick off our new collaborative reading series on Eugene Macarraher's The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity.  Chairman Bane and TRC Crew are once again joined by our special guest and Comrade in Christ™, Mir, for the podcasting version of The Book of Revelations as we end our reading series The Enchantments of Mammon. RIP Kevin™ leads this one as we talk everything from utopia to Ayn Rand to Herbert Marcuse. THESE ARE THE END TIMES. Further Readings/References Eugene McCarraher The Enchantments of Mammon Review ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibrarypodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod Click here to listen to the Lost Horizons Network podcast Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes  Click here to support Red Library on Patreon Click here to find Red Library on Facebook Click here to find the host's political theory blog, Capillaries: Theory at the Front

For the first of not 1 but 2 RL Patron-Exclusive Episodes™ for March, Chairman Bane, CC Don, and patron royalty and OGs MetroGnome and Gravesend Commissar fill in for CC Alex to discuss the oeuvre of Michael Bay through the lens of the reactionary mind.   This one is pure chaos, y'all. No prep work except for CC Don and Chairman Bane watching Armageddon while experiencing societal collapse in Texas during the recent ice storm. But as per usual, hot takes abound with some bordering on icy cold territory. Is Bay a nihilist or just a misanthrope? What does it mean to exist in a world after Christ/Harry Stamper has died? What is a resonance machine? Tune in to find out!   ***TECHINICAL NOTE: MetroGnome's mic has some weird clipping issues throughout the recording. We apologize for nothing and regret nothing.*** ----------------------------------------------- Email us at redlibrarypodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod Click here to listen to the Lost Horizons Network podcast Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes  Click here to support Red Library on Patreon Click here to find Red Library on Facebook Click here to find the host's political theory blog, Capillaries: Theory at the Front

We Out Here™ for Plowin' with McGowan Pt. 7! It's OG Red Troika action for this one as we go full DAGGERS OUT™ on not 1 but 2 chapters of Capitalism and Desire. CC Don leads the chapter on means and ends and Comrade Adam aka Chairman Bane aka White Morpheus leads the chapter on love.  ENJOY. Further Reading/References Lost Horizons Podcasting Network Todd McGowan Why Theory? Podcast Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets Review ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibrarypodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod Click here to listen to the Lost Horizons Network podcast Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes  Click here to support Red Library on Patreon Click here to find Red Library on Facebook Click here to find the host's political theory blog, Capillaries: Theory at the Front

A Lost Horizons Network Collaboration It's time once again for Real Nerd Hourz with our podrades from The Regrettable Century! And we decided to keep it chill this time and read a book together that is only 1000 pages. We join forces to kick off our new collaborative reading series on Eugene Macarraher's The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity.  The RL Gang and TRC Crew are joined by our special guest and Comrade in Christ™, Mir, as we dive into part 666 of Jammin' Some Mammon. Jason from TRC leads us through dystopia, the Catholic Worker, technocracy, and many productive tangents along the way!  Further Readings/References Eugene McCarraher The Enchantments of Mammon Review Alain Badiou on Love ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibrarypodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod Click here to listen to the Lost Horizons Network podcast Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes  Click here to support Red Library on Patreon Click here to find Red Library on Facebook Click here to find the host's political theory blog, Capillaries: Theory at the Front

BECOME A PATRON OF RED LIBRARY FOR AS LITTLE AS $1/MONTH BY CLICKING HERE!   We are kicking off 2021 right and firing up the Red Library podcast machines with the long-awaited release of our patron roundtable on decolonization and critical pedagogy!   Join the all-star patron cast of past guests and long-time patrons as they discuss some legendary books in the decolonial tradition as it relates to political education and liberation! ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibrarypodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod Click here to listen to the Lost Horizons Network podcast Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes  Click here to support Red Library on Patreon Click here to find Red Library on Facebook Click here to find the host's political theory blog, Capillaries: Theory at the Front

Part of Red Library's Real Late Night Philosophy Hourz Series Comrade Commissar Alex and Comrade Adam/Chairman Bane GO MOBILE on our long-awaited mega episode on Mari Ruti's The Singularity of Being: Lacan and the Immortal Within! For Part 2, we talk more about CC Alex being BIG MAD, violence, the ethics of sublimation, how we relate to commodities and Das Ding, love, and justice. Further Readings/References Mari Ruti Review of The Singularity of Being Sinthome Automaton and Tuche ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibrarypodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod Click here to listen to the Lost Horizons Network podcast Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes  Click here to support Red Library on Patreon Click here to find Red Library on Facebook Click here to find the host's political theory blog, Capillaries: Theory at the Front

Part of Red Library's Real Late Night Philosophy Hourz Series Comrade Commissar Alex and Comrade Adam/Chairman Bane GO MOBILE on our long-awaited mega episode on Mari Ruti's The Singularity of Being: Lacan and the Immortal Within! For Part 1, we set up a lot of the core arguments of Ruti's and interpretations of core Lacanian psychoanalytic concepts, delve into the Introduction and Chapter 1, and foreshadow all the things CC Alex is BIG MAD about with Ruti's daggers being out for his boi, Zizek.  Further Readings/References Mari Ruti Review of The Singularity of Being Lacan's Three Registers Das Ding Rick Roderick's Self Under Siege Lecture Series Hans Loewald ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibrarypodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod Click here to listen to the Lost Horizons Network podcast Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes  Click here to support Red Library on Patreon Click here to find Red Library on Facebook Click here to find the host's political theory blog, Capillaries: Theory at the Front

We continue our exploration of the Impossible Image with Comrade Commissar Alex from the Red Library gang! Along the way, Alex and Sam respond to some recent discussions across the Lost Horizons Network on the emancipatory potential of art and the Enchantments of Mammon Pt. 5 episode. What is an image? What makes it impossible? What are the two wolves inside Samuel? These are the questions at hand! ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibrarypodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod Click here to listen to the Lost Horizons Network podcast Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes  Click here to support Red Library on Patreon Click here to find Red Library on Facebook Click here to find the host's political theory blog, Capillaries: Theory at the Front

A Lost Horizons Network Collaboration It's time once again for Real Nerd Hourz with our podrades from The Regrettable Century! And we decided to keep it chill this time and read a book together that is only 1000 pages. We join forces to kick off our new collaborative reading series on Eugene Macarraher's The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity.  Comrade Adam/Chairman Bane is running the show for No. 5 and we start off with some Big Brain™ listener questions before diving into human resources, public relations, Disney, aesthetics, and much more! Further Readings/References Going Mobile w. The Red Troika Bois: Explaining Memes Eugene McCarraher The Enchantments of Mammon Review ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibrarypodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod Click here to listen to the Lost Horizons Network podcast Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes  Click here to support Red Library on Patreon Click here to find Red Library on Facebook Click here to find the host's political theory blog, Capillaries: Theory at the Front

We focus on our concept of The Impossible Image as representing negativity and the Real in different ways. Sam brings an example from the art world and Adam brings one from the realm of religion. It all leads to asking "what is the revolutionary subject?" ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibrarypodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod Click here to listen to the Lost Horizons Network podcast Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes  Click here to support Red Library on Patreon Click here to find Red Library on Facebook Click here to find the host's political theory blog, Capillaries: Theory at the Front

The Red Troika delivers our most icy cold/spicy take episode on one of the most beloved film franchises in recent history: Toy Story. Icy Cold Takes™ abound on everything from alienation under capitalism, the co-optation of radical feminism by authoritarian liberal feminism, the crypto-fascism of the nuclear family in the films, the death of God, zoomers versus boomers, family court, and much more! This one gets deranged, unhinged, and chaos reigns as we destroy a sacred cow of settler colonialist ideology just in time for the holidays.  WELCOME TO OUR LIFEWORLD. ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibrarypodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod Click here to listen to the Lost Horizons Network podcast Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes  Click here to support Red Library on Patreon Click here to find Red Library on Facebook Click here to find the host's political theory blog, Capillaries: Theory at the Front

The Red Troika Bois are joined by Comrades Jaime and Pádraig from CounterPower/ContraPoder to talk about their newly published book, Organizing for Autonomy: History, Theory, and Strategy for Collective Liberation! We discuss the project of the book and CounterPower's approach to organizing, the role of theory for today's left, partisan social science, interpersonal relations on the Left, and tons more! ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibrarypodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod Click here to listen to the Lost Horizons Network podcast Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes  Click here to support Red Library on Patreon Click here to find Red Library on Facebook Click here to find the host's political theory blog, Capillaries: Theory at the Front

A new comrade/patron, Patrick, joins us in the history wing of the Red Library this week to tackle a long-overdue historical moment of everlasting importance for today's Left: the failed German Revolution of 1918. We talk about the history of the SPD, the infamous voting for war credits, Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, the March Action, the Spartacist League and Uprising, the Kapp Putsch, and more! This one has Big Radio War Nerd Energy and is already an RL classic! Further Reading/Sources The Lost Revolution: Germany 1918-1923 Chris Harman German Revolution 1918-19 Tony Cliff Rosa Luxemburg Karl Leibknecht Grigory Zinoviev Bela Kun German Empire Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) Erfurt Program Eduard Bernstein Leibknecht's Protest Against War Credits Spartacus League Friedrich Ebert Freikorps Gustav Noske Spartacist Uprising Kurt Eisner Kapp Putsch Communist International March Action ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibrarypodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod Click here to listen to the Lost Horizons Network podcast Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes  Click here to support Red Library on Patreon Click here to find Red Library on Facebook Click here to find the host's political theory blog, Capillaries: Theory at the Front

For Plowin' with McGowan Pt. 6/Chapter 6, CC Don is in the driver's seat to talk Hegel, the good infinite, and the bad infinite in capitalism. It's the skeleton crew on this one with just Podrade Neil and Comrade Adam/Chairman Bane joining in the fun.  This is a very breakfast food-heavy discussion. Many questions ensue. Marx is discussed. Daggers are drawn. Answers are sought and only more questions are found. ENJOY. Further Reading/References Hegel on the Dialectics of Infinity ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibrarypodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod Click here to listen to the Lost Horizons Network podcast Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes  Click here to support Red Library on Patreon Click here to find Red Library on Facebook Click here to find the host's political theory blog, Capillaries: Theory at the Front

We inaugurate a brand new companion project to Red Library called The Red Desert starting today!  This project is focused on Comrades Adam and Sam dive into active theorizing on our shared theoretical explorations/book projects and describe the spirit and nature of The Red Desert project. Some topics include form and content, time, film, art, philosophy, communism, and almost everything else. ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibrarypodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod Click here to listen to the Lost Horizons Network podcast Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes  Click here to support Red Library on Patreon Click here to find Red Library on Facebook Click here to find the host's political theory blog, Capillaries: Theory at the Front

Gravesend Commissar returns for our follow-up episode on The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller by GOING MOBILE on Superman: Red Son!  We talk about the War on Terror's influence on the comic, contradictions of the liberal mind, American exceptionalism, and the return of Cold War ideology. Hypocrisy is the greatest evil to the liberal worldview. ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibrarypodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod Click here to listen to the Lost Horizons Network podcast Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes  Click here to support Red Library on Patreon Click here to find Red Library on Facebook Click here to find the host's political theory blog, Capillaries: Theory at the Front

Eric Chester, author of the new book from Monthly Review Press, Free Speech and the Suppression of Dissent During World War I, joins Comrade Adam in the library this week for a very special episode!  We work through Eric's new book and talk about the differing contexts of suppression of free speech in the UK and the U.S., Eugene Debs, the IWW, Samuel Gompers and the ALF-CIO legacy, and some of the legendary IWW strikes and labor drives during the period. Further Readings/References Eric T. Chester Free Speech and the Suppression of Dissent During World War I Eugene V. Debs Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) Fred Hampton James Baldwin Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Defense of the Realm Act Boer Wars  Patriot Act Debs's Canton Speech Samuel Gompers Aaron J. Leonard ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibrarypodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod Click here to listen to the Lost Horizons Network podcast Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes  Click here to support Red Library on Patreon Click here to find Red Library on Facebook Click here to find the host's political theory blog, Capillaries: Theory at the Front

A Lost Horizons Network Collaboration It's time once again for Real Nerd Hourz with our podrades from The Regrettable Century! And we decided to keep it chill this time and read a book together that is only 1000 pages. We join forces to kick off our new collaborative reading series on Eugene Macarraher's The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity.  CC Don is back in the driver's seat for Part 4 on populism. anarchist and socialist history, the craft movement, and much more! Further Readings/References Going Mobile w. The Red Troika Bois: Explaining Memes Eugene McCarraher The Enchantments of Mammon Review Max Weber The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism McCarraher on This is Hell! Christopher Lasch ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibrarypodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod Click here to listen to the Lost Horizons Network podcast Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes  Click here to support Red Library on Patreon Click here to find Red Library on Facebook Click here to find the host's political theory blog, Capillaries: Theory at the Front

We are joined in the Red Library this week by the OG of Leftist podcasting, C. Derick Varn, to read through Christopher Lasch's The World of Nations: Reflections on American History, Politics, and Culture. In Part 2, we discuss Lasch's critiques of how the word revolution functions on the Left, who the revolutionary subject was in the 1960's, the Rainbow Coalition in Chicago with the BPP, similarities between the Left and Right, culture's relationship to capitalist resistance, educational institutions, and tons more! Further Readings/References C. Derick Varn Christopher Lasch 1848 Revolutions Ferdinand Lassalle Jacques Ellul Clip of Bob Lee of the BPP Organizing with the Young Patriots in Chicago Bob Lee Days of Rage Review Analytical Marxism George Kennan Saul Alinksy Phyllis Schlafly ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibrarypodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod Click here to listen to the Lost Horizons Network podcast Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes  Click here to support Red Library on Patreon Click here to find Red Library on Facebook Click here to find the host's political theory blog, Capillaries: Theory at the Front

BECOME A PATRON OF RED LIBRARY FOR AS LITTLE AS $1/MONTH BY CLICKING HERE! The Red Troika delves into the 2019 film, Vivarium, to talk about bird conspiracies, antinatalism, the hell of home ownership, the tyranny of the nuclear family, evolutionary biology and beauty, and the true meaning of cuckoldry, and more off-the-rails topics in the horniest Red Library episode of all time! Buckle up and put on those winter coats for the icy cold takes - we almost didn't make it out of this one alive!  ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibrarypodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod Click here to listen to the Lost Horizons Network podcast Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes  Click here to support Red Library on Patreon Click here to find Red Library on Facebook Click here to find the host's political theory blog, Capillaries: Theory at the Front

We are joined in the Red Library this week by the OG of Leftist podcasting, C. Derick Varn, to read through Christopher Lasch's The World of Nations: Reflections on American History, Politics, and Culture. In part 1, we talk the gaps in Leftist understanding of U.S. history, asylums, the history of feminist movements in the 19th century, the temperance movement, the New Left, the university as a reactionary institution, imperialism, and much more! Varn brings so many icy cold takes you should put on your winter coat for this one, comrades! It's gonna get chilly...  Further Readings/References C. Derick Varn Christopher Lasch The World of Nations Review Epicureanism The Frankfurt School Irme Lakatos Georg Lukács H. Richard Niebuhr Pierre Bourdieu Jacques Barzun Lorraine Hansberry Jacques Ellul Oswald Spengler   ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibrarypodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod Click here to listen to the Lost Horizons Network podcast Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes  Click here to support Red Library on Patreon Click here to find Red Library on Facebook Click here to find the host's political theory blog, Capillaries: Theory at the Front

BECOME A PATRON OF RED LIBRARY FOR AS LITTLE AS $1/MONTH BY CLICKING HERE! Comrade/Patron Gravesend Commissar joins the Red Troika Bois for a spiritual sequel to our Christopher Nolan The Dark Knight Trilogy patron-exclusive episodes to talk about Frank Miller's legendary comic series The Dark Knight Returns. This is essentially a deep dive into the reactionary mind and aesthetics of postmodern fascism. :50 ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibrarypodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod Click here to listen to the Lost Horizons Network podcast Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes  Click here to support Red Library on Patreon Click here to find Red Library on Facebook Click here to find the host's political theory blog, Capillaries: Theory at the Front

Part of Red Library's Lost Futures Series Comrade Adam (a.k.a. Chairman Bane) joins podrades Remi and Niko from Cosmonaut's brilliant Ecology Cast series to discuss Kohei Saito's Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy: Karl Marx's Ecosocialism from Monthly Review Press in 2017. We discuss the concept of metabolism, Marx's evolution of thought on ecology being the core realm of capitalist crisis, agricultural chemistry, the role of a Marxist ecosocialist perspective to stop the destruction of capital across the planet, and much more! Further Reading/References Kohei Saito Interview with Saito on Karl Marx's Ecosocialism Comrade Adam's Review of Karl Marx's Ecosocialism for Houston Review of Books Cosmonaut Magazine Cosmopod's Ecology Cast Series John Bellamy Foster Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA) Jason W. Moore's Capitalism in the Web of Life Review of Kevin B. Anderon's Marx at the Margins Ludwig Feuerbach Helena Sheehan Christopher Cauldwell Alexander Bogdanov Roland Daniels Justus von Liebig Karl Fraas Agrophysics   ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibrarypodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod Click here to listen to the Lost Horizons Network podcast Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes  Click here to support Red Library on Patreon Click here to find Red Library on Facebook Click here to find the host's political theory blog, Capillaries: Theory at the Front

Part of Red Library's Revolutionary Politics in Central and South America and Real Philosophy Hourz Series We are joined by Comrade/Patron Brant of Houston Review of Books to tackle George Ciccarielo-Maher's Decolonizing Dialectics and get into some real theoretical ICY COLD TAKES in the library this week.  We discuss the relationship between dialectics and decolonization, postcolonialism and decolonial theory, Frantz Fanon, Enrique Dussel, try to recuperate Georges Sorel for today's Left a bit, universals, and the dialectic being mobile and armed in Venezuela under Chavez. This one is THICC, SPICY, and ICE COLD, comrades! Further Reading/References Houston Review of Books George Ciccariello-Maher GCM's Website Decolonizing Dialectics Bring the Ruckus Oakland Georges Sorel José Carlos Mariátegui Decoloniality Postcolonialism Jacobinism Teleology Communist International Hannah Arendt Négritude Alexandre Kojéve Afro-pessimism The Black Jacobins Enrique Dussel Emmanuel Levinas Can Dialectics Break Bricks Full Film Caracazo Jacobin Article on AFL-CIA in Venezuela The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Documentary about 2002 Attempted Coup of Chavez Ernesto Laclau Strike at the Helm Speech from Hugo Chavez ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibrarypodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes  Click here to support Red Library on Patreon Click here to find Red Library on Facebook Click here to find the host's political theory blog, Capillaries: Theory at the Front

DON'T YOU DARE CALL IT A COMEBACK.  Part 5 of our Todd McGowan Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets reading series is in full effect this week. In Chapter 5, CC Alex leads us through a discussion on psychoanalytic approaches to freedom under capitalism, universals, and McGowan's use of the symbolic to explain capital's functioning along with all the usual Red Troika hijinks. ENJOY. Further Reading/References Did the Ancient Greeks Believe in Their Myths?  Interpassivity The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn Immanuel Kant J.P. Sartre Robert Solomon Erich Fromm Lacan's Register Theory Lacan's Obsessive and Hysterical Neurosis ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibrarypodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod Click here to listen to the Lost Horizons Network podcast Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes  Click here to support Red Library on Patreon Click here to find Red Library on Facebook Click here to find the host's political theory blog, Capillaries: Theory at the Front

A Lost Horizons Network Collaboration It's time once again for Real Nerd Hourz with our podrades from The Regrettable Century! And we decided to keep it chill this time and read a book together that is only 1000 pages. We join forces to kick off our new collaborative reading series on Eugene Macarraher's The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity.  For part 3, Comrade Adam leads the discussion on advertising, the rise of the corporation, scientific management, imperialist eschatology, and we all get sick along the way at the sheer depravity of capitalism's development in the Gilded Age. Further Readings/References Eugene McCarraher The Enchantments of Mammon Review Max Weber The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism McCarraher on This is Hell! 8 Limbs of Yoga (Ashtanga) Stoicism Charles Taylor's Sources of the Self Liberation Theology Homestead Strike Pullman Strike Westinghouse's Dynamo Frederick W. Taylor Walter Lippman Robber Barons Ehrenreich on the PMC International Harvester's Pension Program Welfare Capitalism lil piss/yung piss Big Bill Haywood Christopher Lasch ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibrarypodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod Click here to listen to the Lost Horizons Network podcast Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes  Click here to support Red Library on Patreon Click here to find Red Library on Facebook Click here to find the host's political theory blog, Capillaries: Theory at the Front

In a very special 2-part episode, Comrade Adam is joined by former guests and Red Library patrons, Comrades Tiberius and Ryan, to discuss bell hooks's The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love. In part 2, we talk about masculinity and work, what love is for hooks, limitations in hooks's Second Wave Feminist framework, gender abolition, biological essentialism, shame, spirituality, and tons more! Further Reading/References bell hooks The Will to Change Review and Summary Relational-Cultural Theory adrienne marie brown Alain Badiou on Love Erich Fromm Emotional Labor Doesn't Mean What You Think It Does Postgenderism Wages for Housework Enemy Trailer Virtue Ethics ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibrarypodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod Click here to listen to the Lost Horizons Network podcast Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes  Click here to support Red Library on Patreon Click here to find Red Library on Facebook Click here to find the host's political theory blog, Capillaries: Theory at the Front

In a very special 2-part episode, Comrade Adam is joined by former guests and Red Library patrons, Comrades Tiberius and Ryan, to discuss bell hooks's The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love. We start part 1 with discussion of hooks's main arguments for the book overall, the nature of patriarchal hierarchy, how patriarchy impacts the ways men's ability to love and be vulnerable, and tons more. This one gets pretty personal for all of us in the best possible way. Further Reading/References bell hooks The Will to Change Review and Summary Capitalist Realism Restorative Justice Barbara Deming Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women Second-wave Feminism ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibrarypodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod Click here to listen to the Lost Horizons Network podcast Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes  Click here to support Red Library on Patreon Click here to find Red Library on Facebook Click here to find the host's political theory blog, Capillaries: Theory at the Front

A Lost Horizons Network Collaboration It's time once again for Real Nerd Hourz with our podrades from The Regrettable Century! And we decided to keep it chill this time and read a book together that is only 1000 pages. We join forces to kick off our new collaborative reading series on Eugene Macarraher's The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity.  For part 2, CC Don is in the driver's seat and we are going to focus on Mammonism in the mid-19th century in the U.S. Topics of note include Puritanism, Transcendentalism, and all sorts of other good stuff. And CC Don brings his icy cold analysis as per usual with some core questions about McCarraher's concepts thus far.  Further Readings/References Eugene McCarraher The Enchantments of Mammon Review Max Weber The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibrarypodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod Click here to listen to the Lost Horizons Network podcast Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes  Click here to support Red Library on Patreon Click here to find Red Library on Facebook Click here to find the host's political theory blog, Capillaries: Theory at the Front

***BECOME A PATRON FOR ONLY $1/MONTH! LINK TO OUR PATREON PAGE IN THE LINKS BELOW*** The Red Troika offers the most systematic, complex Icy Cold Take in the show's history focused on the conservative reactionary mindset in Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy. Batman (the symbol of neoliberal right-wing authoritarian power) must battle his 3 greatest ideological foes: liberal technocratic biopower, a completely misunderstood version of anarchism, and the greatest threat, revolutionary Marxism-Leninism. But there is an even GREATER threat looming behind all 3... The icy told take is so frosty it's gonna give you frostbite. Make sure to wear your mittens, comrades! ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibrarypodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes  Click here to support Red Library on Patreon Click here to find Red Library on Facebook Click here to find the host's political theory blog, Capillaries: Theory at the Front

Part of Red Library's Revolutionary Politics in Central and South America Series At long last, we finally tackle the Guatemalan Revolution and the tragic rise and fall of Jacobo Arbenz in 1954 in a monstrous, dense two-part episode on Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States 1944-1954 by Piero Gleijeses. In part 2, we pick up on Jacobo Arbenz's presidency, Decree 900 and agrarian reform in Guatemala, the beginnings of the CIA plot to out Arbenz, and take it all the way up to the final tragic days of Arbenz as the U.S.-backed coup led by Castillo Armas closes in on Guatemala City. We do our best to wrap up the episode and talk about what we can take away from studying the history of a communist vision for Guatemala that was brutally extinguished in the 1950's. Further Reading/References Piero Gleijeses Radio War Nerd Patreon Page r/badhistory post on Jacobo Arbenz Maria Cristina Vilanova Jose Manuel Fortuny Guatemalan Party of Labour Decree 900 The Logic of Violence in Civil War Formosa Adam Curtis's Documentary on Edward Bernays and Public Relations Archbishop Rossell y Arellano Castillo Armas Edward Bernays Dean Acheson Operation AJAX Allan Dulles John Foster Dulles Operation FORTUNE Operation PBSUCCESS Council on Foreign Relations John Peurifoy When Mountains Tremble Operation Gladio Efrain Rios Montt Human Terrain System   ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibrarypodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes  Click here to support Red Library on Patreon Click here to find Red Library on Facebook Click here to find the host's political theory blog, Capillaries: Theory at the Front

Part of Red Library's Revolutionary Politics in Central and South America Series At long last, we finally tackle the Guatemalan Revolution and the tragic rise and fall of Jacobo Arbenz in 1954 in a monstrous, dense two-part episode on Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States 1944-1954 by Piero Gleijeses. In part 1, we discuss the context of the book and some details about Gleijeses, the history of authoritarian dictators in Guatemala through the 1930's and 1940's, Juan Jose Arevalo, Arbenz and his background, the United Fruit Company, and tons more! Further Reading/References Piero Gleijeses Radio War Nerd Patreon Page r/badhistory post on Jacobo Arbenz When Mountains Tremble Full Film Granito Trailer Anti-Imperialism: An Introductory Reading List on the Capillaries Blog Jacobo Arbenz The Guatemalan Revolution Juan Jose Arevalo Jose Manuel Fortuny 1932 Salvadoran Peasant Uprising and Massacre Jorge Ubico Juan Federico Ponce Vaides Castillo Armas Edward Bernays John Foster Dulles Carribean Legion Thomas Sankara ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibrarypodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes  Click here to support Red Library on Patreon Click here to find Red Library on Facebook Click here to find the host's political theory blog, Capillaries: Theory at the Front

A Lost Horizons Network Collaboration It's time once again for Real Nerd Hourz with our podrades from The Regrettable Century! And we decided to keep it chill this time and read a book together that is only 1000 pages. We join forces to kick off our new collaborative reading series on Eugene Macarraher's The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity.  Chris leads us through the Introduction and Part 1 to get things off just right. We talk about the general thesis of the book that the world is not disenchanted with capitalism but enchanted in a new corrupt way, the moral economy, the Commons, medieval communal life, Protestantism, romantic anti-capitalism, the Big Beards, William Blake, and tons more! Further Readings/References Eugene McCarraher The Enchantments of Mammon Review Max Weber The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism The Medieval Moral Economy The Commons The Reconquista Lebensraum John Locke Paradise Lost Gerard Winstanley David Hume Thomas Malthus William Blake John Ruskin William Morris Narodniks Wassily Kandinsky Gustav Landauer ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibrarypodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod Click here to listen to the Lost Horizons Network podcast Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes  Click here to support Red Library on Patreon Click here to find Red Library on Facebook Click here to find the host's political theory blog, Capillaries: Theory at the Front

GET ACCESS TO THE FULL EPISODE FOR AS LITTLE AS $1/MONTH AT RED LIBRARY'S PATREON PAGE IN THE SHOW NOTES BELOW!   For this very special Patron-exclusive episode of Red Library, we had a round-table discussion with patrons of the show and a few special guests to talk about the ongoing BLM protests against racial violence and brutality by the State and police in the U.S. and around the globe!   This is going to be the first of many future roundtable discussions with patrons so get in on RL's Discord server to participate in future discussions and episodes!   ***BIG SHOUT OUT TO COMRADE TIBERIUS FOR HELPING ON THE EDITING FOR THIS EPISODE! o7*** Further Reading/References Article on Balko’s Rise of the Warrior Cop Puerto Rican BLM Protestors Bring Guillotine to Governor’s Mansion “Mask Off: Crisis & Struggle in the Pandemic,” 06 June 2020, Hunsinger, Richard and Eisenberg, Nathan, Cosmonaut. “Ten Days that Shook the World,” 04 June 2020, RS21. “Racism Is Surging in Germany. Tens of Thousands Are Taking to the Streets to Call for Justice” https://www.conter.co.uk/blog/2020/6/15/blm-anatomy-of-a-movement https://www.leftvoice.org/inside-chaz-a-first-hand-account-of-the-autonomous-zone-in-seattle https://twitter.com/heresysquad/status/1272723171112706049 https://itsgoingdown.org/get-in-the-zone/ ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibrarypodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod Click here to listen to the Lost Horizons Network podcast Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes  Click here to support Red Library on Patreon Click here to find Red Library on Facebook Click here to find the host's political theory blog, Capillaries: Theory at the Front

All aboard the McGowan train for part 4 of our Capitalism and Desire reading series! CHOO CHOO, COMRADES. This one is all about sacrifice and the unconscious ways we sacrifice continuously in capitalism despite claims that the necessity of sacrifice is no longer needed in our modern, rationalist society. Further Reading/References Georges Bataille The Social Consequence of Everything College Humor Video  ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibrarypodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod Click here to listen to the Lost Horizons Network podcast Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes  Click here to support Red Library on Patreon Click here to find Red Library on Facebook Click here to find the host's political theory blog, Capillaries: Theory at the Front

Comrade Cooper Cherry (Triple C) from the Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour podcast is back in the library for part 2 of more Big Brain Energy and unraveling the Code of the post-modern Chad, Jean Baudrillard, in Symbolic Exchange and Death. For round 2, we talk about reproduction, the hyperreal (obvs), The Matrix, fashion, racism, death, the Death Drive, shitposting, actual shit and excrement, post-scarcity, poetry, and wrap things up. Further Readings/References Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour Patreon Page Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour iTunes Page Jean Baudrillard Symbolic Exchange and Death Overview Where Do I Start with Baudrillard?  Critical Perspectives on Waluigi Georg Simmel Simmel's Article on Fashion Brogue Shoes Fredric Jameson on Postmodernism Deterritorialization Homo economicus Mirowski's Machine Dreams Cybernetics About Schmidt Trailer Lacan's Symbolic, Imaginary, and the Real Rick Roderick's Great Courses Lecture on Baudrillard ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibrarypodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes  Click here to support Red Library on Patreon Click here to find Red Library on Facebook Click here to find the host's political theory blog, Capillaries: Theory at the Front

Comrade Cooper Cherry (Triple C) from the Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour podcast joins us for a very in-depth exploration with lots of Big Brain Energy of Jean Baudrillard's Symbolic Exchange and Death from 1976. Part 1 covers some basics about Baudrillard and situating him theoretically on the Left, the context of the book's publication and writing, the Real and radical indeterminacy, the shift from production to consumption, shopping in a pandemic, how to confront capital that doesn't exist on the plane of the real, the 3 orders of simulacra, and much more! Further Readings/References Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour Patreon Page Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour iTunes Page Jean Baudrillard Symbolic Exchange and Death Overview Where Do I Start with Baudrillard?  Critical Perspectives on Waluigi Andy Warhol's Mao Paintings Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra Anti-Oedipus by Deleuze and Guattari Semiotics Marcel Mauss Late Capitalism Bretton Woods Conference Velocity of Money Potlatch Baudrillard's 3 Orders of Simulacra 20 Types of Hypebeast Supreme Brick ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibrarypodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod Click here to listen to the Lost Horizons Network podcast Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes  Click here to support Red Library on Patreon Click here to find Red Library on Facebook Click here to find the host's political theory blog, Capillaries: Theory at the Front

THE GLOVES ARE OFF. IT'S LEFTIST THEORIST (Post-1969) BATTLE ROYALE TIME.   Red Library just hit our goal of 50 patrons which we have been working on over the last year (AIR HORNS AIR HORNS). As a small thank you to all you comrade listeners out there that have been our ride-or-dies, Comrade Adam/Bane, CC Don/Joker, and CC Alex/Thanos/Lobo are ranking into a tiered hierarchy and in a completely arbitrary way the top 30ish Leftist theorists from 1969 onward.    This list is now official Red Library Party line and officially canon. This marathon episode involved a good bit of alcohol, heated debate, icy cold takes, contention, controversy, and lots of trash talking along the way.   Further Reading/References jreg's Political Ideology Tier List  Reviewbrah's Fast Food Tier List  Red Library's Top 30 Leftist Theorist (Post-1969) Tiered Hierarchy  ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibrarypodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes  Click here to support Red Library on Patreon Click here to find Red Library on Facebook Click here to find the host's political theory blog, Capillaries: Theory at the Front

BACK IN THE SADDLE AGAIN AND WE'RE NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANYMORE. The Red Troika plus CC Neil return for more McGowan psychoanalytical goodness.  In part 3, we focus on chapter 3 of Capitalism and Desire and discuss the Lacanian concept of The Gaze, presentations of women in film, Ayn Rand, self-interest and capitalism as a neutral background, Antigone, Adam becomes a Badiou Stan, lots of movie talk, and more! Further Reading/References The Gaze Zizek Lecture - The Spectator's Malevolent Neutrality Objectivism Antigone Scorpion and the Frog ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibrarypodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes  Click here to support Red Library on Patreon Click here to find Red Library on Facebook Click here to find the host's political theory blog, Capillaries: Theory at the Front

On this week's Red Library, we bring you a special collaborative episode with our podrade, Cooper Cherry, at the Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour podcast.  Comrade Adam went on Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour to discuss Slavoj Zizek's recent book-length hot take, Pandemic!: COVID-19 Shakes the World.  Further Readings/References Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour Patreon Page ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibrarypodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes  Click here to support Red Library on Patreon Click here to find Red Library on Facebook Click here to find the host's political theory blog, Capillaries: Theory at the Front

A Lost Horizons Network Collaboration This week on Red Library, Neil from the From78 Podcast and the Red Troika (Don, Alex, and Adam) continue our reading series on Todd McGowan's Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets. We kick off part 2 with some discussion of wrestling and basketball then dive into the theoretical depths on the colonization of public space by the private in capitalism, Kant, the surveillance state, Karens, Big Sad Boi Energy, Badiou's Event, and much more (as always!) Further Readings/References Lost Horizons Podcasting Network Todd McGowan Why Theory? Podcast Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets Review Revolutionary Left Radio's Episode with McGowan on Capitalism and Desire The Spectacle of Excess Blog Jurgen Habermas Hannah Arendt Lacan's Schema L Giorgio Agamben Jacques Ranciere Ludwig Wittgenstein Erich Fromm The Karen ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibrarypodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes  Click here to support Red Library on Patreon Click here to find Red Library on Facebook Click here to find the host's political theory blog, Capillaries: Theory at the Front

The Red Troika (CC Don, CC Alex, and Comrade Adam) dive into the hyper-aesthetics of horror in the modern Nicholas Cage classics, Mandy and Out of Space.    Hot takes and icy-cold takes abound in this episode on Nic Cage's Trump impression, reading Mandy as a depiction of Hillary's fall and Joe Biden's rise, and all sorts of absolute space and drug madness. ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibrarypodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes  Click here to support Red Library on Patreon Click here to find Red Library on Facebook Click here to find the host's political theory blog, Capillaries: Theory at the Front

On this week's Red Library, we interrupt our regularly scheduled program to bring your our first Lost Horizons Network collective podcast release, Here We Are Together, Still...After All.  Join Comrade Adam, Jason and Chris from The Regrettable Century, and Neil from the From78 Podcast, as we talk about dialectical pessimism, what the revolution is for each of us, and lots of good laughs along the way! Find the Lost Horizons Network podcast feed here! ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibrarypodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes  Click here to support Red Library on Patreon Click here to find Red Library on Facebook Click here to find the host's political theory blog, Capillaries: Theory at the Front

Our excellent fellow podcaster and Red Library patron, Comrade Jared, joins us in the library to tackle a towering figure in the current Marxist theory landscape, David Harvey. We read through his recent work, Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason. We discuss different models of how to understand capitalism as a total system, the social creation of value, economics as an objective science, ideology and deception within capitalism, whether there is ethical consumption under capitalism, and tons more! Further Readings/References From78 Podcast InForm: Podcast David Harvey Harvey's Capital Vol. 1 Lecture Series Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason Max Weber Byung-Chul Han William Davies The New Spirit of Capitalism ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibrarypodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes  Click here to support Red Library on Patreon Click here to find Red Library on Facebook Click here to find the host's political theory blog, Capillaries: Theory at the Front

As Red Library is a political education podcast, we think it's important to provide content that can be helpful for our comrade listeners to expand their own thinking and analysis but to also help radicalize others. In that spirit, here is the first of a new mini-episode series we are calling Red Gemz, short snippets from Red Library episodes that can be great introductions to the show and to also help radicalize and educate others on the type of icy-cold takes we specialize in. This is also a special preview of our upcoming episode on David Harvey's Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason. Enjoy!