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

How does one rebel ethically? Can revolution be ethical if it strives for the absolute ideals of justice and equality? What is the role of freedom and mortality in politics and our existential being within our experiences of capitalism?

These and other questions are the subject of this week's episode as Comrade David joins us to read through The Rebel by the French-Algerian existentialist/absurdist philosopher and essayist, Albert Camus. As always with Comrade David, we also manage to relate rebellion and absurdist philosophy to comics, Ariana Grande, and the occult with a healthy dose of shit-talking along the way.

Yeet. Yeet.

Further Reading/References

• Analysis and Summary of The Rebel
• Albert Camus Biography
• Absurdist Philosophy
• Krushchev's Speech to the 20th Congress of the CPSU
• The Algerian War
• The Myth of Sisyphus
• Marquis de Sade
• Latreamont
• Max Stirner's The Ego and Its Own
• The Frankfurt School
• Erich Fromm's Escape from Freedom
• Daryl Davis and Talking with KKK Members
• Podcast and Summary of Ernest Becker's The Denial of Death

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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 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

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Part 2 of Red Library's Lost Futures Series

Our most excellent comrades from The Regrettable Century return to the library for epic task of studying the history of socialist political and economic society and its eventual eventual downfall in Yugoslavia from 1945 to the early 1990's. To do so, we read the 2015 work by Darko Suvin, Slendour, Misery, and Possibilities: An X-Ray of Socialist Yugoslavia.

We kick off part 1 with discussing the history of Yugoslavia and the partisan resistance during World War II, the break with Stalin and the U.S.S.R., the struggleation in the command economy years, and much more!

We also share a big announcement at the start of this episode!

Further Readings/References

• The Regrettable Century's Patreon Page
• Darko Suvin
• Interview with Darko Suvin
• The Life and Death of Yugoslav Socialism
• Haymarket's Historical Materialism Series
• David McNally's Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires, and Global Capitalism
• Yugoslav Partisans
• Josip Broz Tito
• Yalta Conference
• Greek Civil War
• Milovan Djilas's Conversations with Stalin
• Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
• Prague Spring
• Ernst Bloch
• Bretton Woods Conference
• Edvard Kardelj
• Milovan Djilas

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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, 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

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Part 2 of Red Library's Lost Futures Series WE ARE BACK. We are joined in the library by a new guest and patron of the show, Comrade Tiberius, to lead us through Common Space: The City as Commons by Stavros Stavrides. In the discussion, we talk about core elements in Stavrides' conception of the city as a common space such as the relationship between spaces and the people they create, modernism, the distinction between public and private, and what it would mean to struggle for a commons for us all. Further Reading/References

• Left Coast Media Podcast
• Stavros Stavrides
• Common Space: The City as Commons
• Occupy Movement
• Exarcheia
• Henri Lefebvre
• Utopian Socialism
• Haussmann's Renovation of Paris
• Red Vienna
• Le Corbusier
• Modernism
• Homo economicus
• Oikos
• Polis
• Liminality
• Jurgen Habermas
• Lifeworld
• Enclosure
• Popular Front Podcast
• Autonomism
• Susan Buck-Morss
• Review of Money: 5,000 Years of Debt and Power
• Polanyi's The Great Transformation

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