Red Library: A Political Education Podcast for Tod 2a5b16

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 [email protected] 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 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 [email protected] 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 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, s 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 [email protected] 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 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 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 [email protected] 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 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 ed 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 [email protected] 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 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 [email protected] 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 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 ed 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 [email protected] 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 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 s 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 [email protected] 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 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) s 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 [email protected] 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 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 ed 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 [email protected] Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes  Click here to 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?  Interivity The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn Immanuel Kant J.P. Sartre Robert Solomon Erich Fromm Lacan's Theory Lacan's Obsessive and Hysterical Neurosis ------------------------------------------------ Email us at [email protected] 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 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 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 [email protected] 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 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 ed 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 [email protected] 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 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 ed 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 [email protected] 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 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 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 [email protected] 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 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 [email protected] Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes  Click here to 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 [email protected] Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes  Click here to 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 [email protected] Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes  Click here to 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 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 [email protected] 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 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 . 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--of-the-autonomous-zone-in-seattle https://twitter.com/heresysquad/status/1272723171112706049 https://itsgoingdown.org/get-in-the-zone/ ------------------------------------------------ Email us at [email protected] 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 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