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

Jan 27, 2020

The Red Wickies (Comrades Adam, Alex, and Don) venture into the dark labyrinth that is The Lighthouse, the 2019 film by Robert Eggers.
 
We put our collective lighthouse maintenance skills together to explore the role of Greek myth in the film, madness, scientific rationalism, terrible bosses and exploitation of...


Jan 20, 2020

New mini-squared series, who dis?

Comrade Adam and Comrade Commissar Don dive into Ernest Mandel's concise book/pamphlet on the basics of Marxist economic theory, An Introduction to Marxist Economic Thought
 
In part 1, we cover some of the basic Marxist concepts such as use value and exchange value, surplus value,...


Jan 13, 2020

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...