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The World of Nations: Reflections on American History, Politics, and Culture (Pt. 2)

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

Release Date: 10/05/2020

New Show Just Dropped! Subjective Conditions Ep. 1 - We Are The Break

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

RL Finale! - Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition w. The Regrettable Century (Pt. 3)

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

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...

RL Finale! - Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition w. The Regrettable Century (Pt. 2)

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

RL Finale! - Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition w. The Regrettable Century (Pt. 1)

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

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)!...

PATREON EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: 2 Fash 2 Tierious - Heidelberg Drift (Pt. 1)

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

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 Follow us on Twitter at Click to listen to the Lost Horizons Network podcast Click to...

The Enchantments of Mammon w. The Regrettable Century (Pt. 7 FINIS)

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

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...

PATREON EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: The Passion of the Michael Bay

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

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...

Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (Pt. 7)

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

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 ------------------------------------------------ Email us at Follow us on Twitter at Click to listen to the Lost Horizons Network podcast Click to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes Click to support Red Library on Patreon...

The Enchantments of Mammon w. The Regrettable Century (Pt. 666)

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

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,...

PATREON EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: Decolonization and Education Patron Roundtable (Pt. 1)

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

BECOME A PATRON OF RED LIBRARY FOR AS LITTLE AS $1/MONTH BY CLICKING ! 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 Follow us on Twitter at Click to listen to the Lost Horizons Network podcast...

More Episodes

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!

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