A podcast focused on creating engaging and accessible political education for today's Left. We read all those theory and politics books and teach them to you, the listener, so you don't have to. Then you take what you learn and put it into practice. You can find Red Library's sister project at https://capillariesblog.wordpress.com which focused on political theory and analysis. Come check it out!
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New Show Just Dropped! Subjective Conditions Ep. 1 - We Are The Break
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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-P…
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RL Finale! - Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition w. The Regrettable Century (Pt. 3)
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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…
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RL Finale! - Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition w. The Regrettable Century (Pt. 2)
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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…
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RL Finale! - Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition w. The Regrettable Century (Pt. 1)
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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…
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PATREON EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: 2 Fash 2 Tierious - Heidelberg Drift (Pt. 1)
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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 …
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The Enchantments of Mammon w. The Regrettable Century (Pt. 7 FINIS)
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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 B…
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PATREON EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: The Passion of the Michael Bay
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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 Armaged…
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Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (Pt. 7)
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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 Networ…
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The Enchantments of Mammon w. The Regrettable Century (Pt. 666)
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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 B…
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PATREON EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: Decolonization and Education Patron Roundtable (Pt. 1)
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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 book…
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The Singularity of Being: Lacan and the Immortal Within (Pt. 2)
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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…
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The Singularity of Being: Lacan and the Immortal Within (Pt. 1)
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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 concept…
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The Red Desert Ep. 1.2: The Impossible Image (Pt. 2) - The Feeling of Existence
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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 wol…
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The Enchantments of Mammon w. The Regrettable Century (No. 5)
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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 B…
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The Red Desert Ep. 1: The Impossible Image (Pt. 1) - The Supremacy of Artistic Feeling
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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 Follo…
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PATREON EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: What If Toys But God Is Dead?
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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, z…
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Organizing for Autonomy: Theory, History, and Strategy for Collective Liberation w. CounterPower
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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 scie…
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The Lost Revolution: Germany 1918-1923
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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 Spa…
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Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (Pt. 6)
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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 a…
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The Red Desert Ep. 0: Trending Toward the Vanishing Point of Geist
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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, philos…
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PATREON EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: Our Beautiful Big Red Failson
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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. --…
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Free Speech and the Suppression of Dissent During World War I w. Eric Chester
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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, Samue…
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The Enchantments of Mammon w. The Regrettable Century (Pt. 4)
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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 B…
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The World of Nations: Reflections on American History, Politics, and Culture (Pt. 2)
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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 R…
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PATREON EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: One Flew Over the Cuckoo Boidz Nest
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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…
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