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

Feb 24, 2020

The Legion of Doomers (CC Don and Comrade Adam) are coming at you with part 2 of our mini-squared series on Ernest Mandel's An Introduction to Marxist Economic Theory.
 
In the second installment, we review the third proof of the labor theory of value from part 1, transitions from precapitalist to capitalist modes of...


Feb 17, 2020

Part 2 of Red Library's Lost Futures Series

We continue our historical x-ray and analysis of the lost futures of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in Darko Suvin's Slendour, Misery, and Possibilities: An X-Ray of Socialist Yugoslavia with our podrades from The Regrettable Century.

Part 2 highlights include...


Feb 10, 2020

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...


Feb 3, 2020

Part 1 of Red Library's My Gott! Pure Ideology Series

Comrade Marvin joins us in the library this week to kick off our new ongoing series on ideology by taking on the Big Daddy himself: Fredric Jameson. We take aim at his recent 2019 Verso book, Allegory and Ideology, for this episode and provide a very big picture...