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

Aug 31, 2019

This is a brief taste of Red Library's first Patron-exclusive episode dropping on Sept. 4th! It's raw, uncut content with The Red Troika that is Comrades Adam, Don, and Alex. We spend the evening using our collective Gorilla Wizard Mindset to tackle the genre of Elevated Horror and the films Hereditary and Midsommar...


Aug 25, 2019

OG Comrade and extraordinary documentary filmmaker, Anne Lewis, joins Red Library this week to talk the labor movement, oral history, cultural work, and her history in Left politics by way of Alessandro Portelli's book, Biography of an Industrial Town: Terni, Italy, 1831-2014. Anne also offers her wisdom on relating to...


Aug 19, 2019

Part 2 of our epic collaboration with our excellent podcasting comrades, The Regrettable Century, continues!

We continue with our exploration of the different schools of Marxist Hegelian interpretations in the Italy, the relationship between Marxism and fascism, the Frankfurt School, and generally explore how to take...


Aug 12, 2019

This week on Red Library, we bring you part 1 of a very special collaboration with one of our favorite podcasts, The Regrettable Century. We formed a Revolutionary Pessimist Justice League to read through Russell Jacoby's Dialectic of Defeat: Contours of Western Marxism.

We start part 1 (AKA the veritable split in the...


Aug 6, 2019

In this special mini-episode, Comrade Adam discusses some of the memories of women's equality under communism in Bulgaria after World War II and the lost future of Bulgarian communism and feminism from Kristen Ghodsee's book, The Left Side of History: World War II and the Unfulfilled Promise of Communism in Eastern...