Jun 30, 2019
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...
Jun 23, 2019
This week on the show, Comrade Commissar Don and I continue the descent into the heart of Foucault's Society Must Be Defended.
The lecture this week picks up on Foucault's idea of race war, the state of war in Hobbes's political theory and what he thinks that means, and more specific discussion about the development...
Jun 16, 2019
Comrade Louis joins me to boldly go where most Leftie podcasts fear to tread: History and Class Consciousness by Hungarian Marxist theorist extraordinaire, Georg Lukacs.
This one is all about what we aim for on Red Library by combining some serious theory with a healthy dose of that juicy historical context. We talk a...
Jun 9, 2019
We take a ride with Micky Foucault into Lecture 4 and focus on his introduction of race war and racist discourse and its relationship to discourse of class war. There is also shade thrown at Althusser, Comrade Commissar and I disagree on things, a knife fight almost happens which could split The Red Library...
Jun 2, 2019
Back in the saddle with our boi, Micky Foucault...
In Lecture 3, we explore Foucault's analysis of the discourse of sovereignty, the split of society into two binary groups opposing each other, and the connection between race war discourse and class war discourse.
Oh yeah...we also threaten to strike until we get a...