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

Nov 25, 2019

We are joined by our good comrade, Max, this week in the library to tackle a work of the brilliant Marxist sociologist and Big Dawg of Cultural Studies, Stuart Hall. Comrade Max joins us to lead a discussion on Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State, and Law and Order by Hall from 1978 which is terrifyingly relevant...


Nov 18, 2019

We continue our discussion on hauntology and dialectical pessimism with our good comrade, Neil,  from the From78 podcast.

On this episode, we continue into the great unknown and touch on many familiar topics and characters in the Red Library canon including Lacan, Melanie Klein, labor struggles, utopia,...


Nov 13, 2019

The Theoretical Peaky Blinders (Comrades Adam, Alex, and Don) went to see Parasite, the hot new film from Korean filmmaker Bong Joon Ho and unanimously agreed it warrants some Red Library time. We also discuss some of his other films including Snowpiercer and Okja which leads to bigger questions on the depiction of...


Nov 11, 2019

On this week of Red Library, we combine our podcasting powers with the excellent From78 podcast to collaborate on some meta-commentary about a lot of topics of frequent discussion on the show.
 
This was originally recorded as an episode of From78 but we wanted to share with you, comrade listeners, to help spread the...


Nov 4, 2019

It's been a long and strange journey but we've come to the end, dear comrades.

This is the final lecture of our Michel Foucault mini-squared series on Society Must Be Defended. We decided to do a full-length episode for you die hard listeners out there that also includes some final wrapping up comments and thoughts we...