Red Book Club

Marxist-leninist reading/study group

[Red Book Club @RBCpod]

We're back with a discussion on the essential work 'Fighting Fascism' by the brilliant Clara Zetkin.

Delivered as a speech in 1923, her profound insight into what fascism is and how it can be beaten is as accurate and urgent as ever.

https://t.co/CabcoyI8Za

[Red Book Club @RBCpod]

In part 2 of Witches, Witch-Hunting and Women by Silvia Federici we discuss modern day witch-hunts, abuse as a weapon against feminism, the inherent violence of the IMF and World Bank, colonialism, women's solidarity and more.

New episode is now live!

https://t.co/mWVDzhde99

[Red Book Club @RBCpod]

Learn about men's fear of the power of women, how ahistorical distortions of the witch-hunts shape contemporary violent attitudes towards women and the true meaning of the word 'gossip' in part one of 'Witches, Witch-Hunting and Women' by Silvia Federici

https://t.co/r6L0dKOxWE

[Red Book Club @RBCpod]

In the second of our two-part collaboration with @tolerantleftpod on 'A Great Love' by Alexandra Kollontai, we talk about Natasha's struggle through abuse and neglect and how her courage and disillusionment helps her to eventually break free.

https://t.co/mS4a4NOlCH

[Red Book Club @RBCpod]

In our first fiction episode we collaborate with our comrades from @tolerantleftpod on 'A Great Love' by Alexandra Kollontai.

This heart-breaking and essential text gives us a profound insight into the abuse and misogyny suffered by non-men on the left

https://t.co/dVw3RDi5qy

[Red Book Club @RBCpod]

In our final episode on Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici we link colonisation in the Americas to the witch-hunts in Europe and discuss indigenous resistance.

Join us as we finish up the book with 'Chapter 5 - Colonisation and Christianisation'

https://t.co/0SmvYJOiPB

[Red Book Club @RBCpod]

Class war, the Devil and elite magicians of the bourgeoisie.

Join us for chapter 4 of Caliban and the Witch, 'The Great Witch-Hunt in Europe' where we learn how women were driven from the workforce, non-reproductive sex was criminalised and so much more.

https://t.co/rHVsX1dLzQ

[Red Book Club @RBCpod]

Join us for Pasha Angelina's 'My Answer to an American Questionnaire', in which we learn the about the strength and humility of this Hero of Socialist Labour, discover the indomitable spirit of the Soviet people and discuss the concept fame.

Now live!

https://t.co/3ziyPCNwqL

[Red Book Club @RBCpod]

Learn how we went from magical beings to time-keeping machines. This week we're discussing mechanical philosophy, magic, shame and more in 'Chapter 3 - The Great Caliban: The Struggle Against The Rebel Body' from Silvia Federici's 'Caliban and the Witch'.

https://t.co/r0VyRi6HcJ

[Red Book Club @RBCpod]

Accumulation of labor, degradation of women, bodily autonomy, the burden of austerity, reproducing the workforce, criminalisation of poverty, women's solidarity, colonisation and much more.

Our dense second episode on Caliban and the Witch is now live!

https://t.co/xyvQEBgGZe

[Invent The Future @proletarianinfo]

Mar. 8, 1917: On #InternationalWomensDay in Petrograd, women from textile mills all over the city begin a mass strike that will spread throughout the Russian Empire. The striking women kick off the February Revolution which will ultimately depose the tsar.

[The Tolerant Left Podcast @tolerantleftpod]

We're back! After a long break, we are rebooted and have brought some comrades along for the ride. Alekx, Eilex, and Savanah join the group, and for this episode we each discuss what it is like to be a nonman in a leftist space. Strap in, it's a spicy one

https://t.co/Z0MQqLQyp8

[Invent The Future @proletarianinfo]

Mar. 5, 1871: Rosa Luxemburg, revolutionary socialist, theorist, and economist, is born in Poland. Her contributions to Marxist political theory make her an indispensable source for revolutionaries.

[Red Book Club @RBCpod]

'Capitalism has placed a crushing burden on women's shoulders.'

This time we discuss how, 100 years on, capitalism has completely failed to improve the lives of working women.

Our episode on Communism and the Family by Alexandra Kollontai is now live!

https://t.co/pKC6azxCTe

[Invent The Future @proletarianinfo]

Feb. 26, 1869: Nadezhda Krupskaya, revolutionary, author, feminist, and educator, is born in St. Petersburg. Her work on the role of women in revolution, revolutionary archival and library science, and statecraft make her one of the most important Bolshevik authors.

[Red Book Club @RBCpod]

Witches, heretics, plague and accumulation. Join us as we learn about capital's violent reaction to peasant struggles.

Our first episode on 'Caliban and the Witch' by Silvia Federici is now live!

https://t.co/abqPFIe0NI

[Red Book Club @RBCpod]

Often dismissed through history as merely 'Lenin's wife', in this vital work Nadezhda Krupskaya elucidates how profoundly Lenin studied Marx and we acknowledge that her 'unshakable faith' led her to be a monumental figure in the struggle for socialism https://t.co/kUKb1aGrlf

[Invent The Future @proletarianinfo]

If you were in the old discord server that just got deleted without warning, send me a DM and I'll give you the link to the new one.

[Red Book Club @RBCpod]

As the first installment in our series on Marxist Feminists and in the wake of the disillusionment caused by the Iowa Democratic caucus controversy, we decided to read Rosa Luxemburg's 'Reform or Revolution' to help understand the necessity of revolution https://t.co/wP1Cdz8oYA

[Red Book Club @RBCpod]

"Capital comes into the world dripping from head to toe, from every pore, with blood and dirt."

Join us for the final episode in our series on Marx's masterpiece 'Capital - Volume I', where we cover all of 'Section 8 - So-Called Primitive Accumulation' https://t.co/wpVIkPh4yq