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

Aug 24, 2020

DON'T YOU DARE CALL IT A COMEBACK. 

Part 5 of our Todd McGowan Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets reading series is in full effect this week.

In Chapter 5, CC Alex leads us through a discussion on psychoanalytic approaches to freedom under capitalism, universals, and McGowan's use of the symbolic to...


Aug 17, 2020

A Lost Horizons Network Collaboration

It's time once again for Real Nerd Hourz with our podrades from The Regrettable Century! And we decided to keep it chill this time and read a book together that is only 1000 pages. We join forces to kick off our new collaborative reading series on Eugene Macarraher's The...


Aug 10, 2020

In a very special 2-part episode, Comrade Adam is joined by former guests and Red Library patrons, Comrades Tiberius and Ryan, to discuss bell hooks's The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love.

In part 2, we talk about masculinity and work, what love is for hooks, limitations in hooks's Second Wave Feminist...


Aug 3, 2020

In a very special 2-part episode, Comrade Adam is joined by former guests and Red Library patrons, Comrades Tiberius and Ryan, to discuss bell hooks's The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love.

We start part 1 with discussion of hooks's main arguments for the book overall, the nature of patriarchal hierarchy,...