Red Book Club
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Fighting Fascism - Clara Zetkin
25 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“Fascism is the strongest, most concentrated, and classic expression at this time of the world bourgeoisie’s general offensive. It is urgently nec...
Witches, Witch-Hunting and Women (Part 2 - New Forms of Capital Accumulation and Witch-Hunting in Our Time) - Silvia Federici
26 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"We are witnessing an escalation of violence against women, especially African-descendant and Native-American women, because 'globalisation' is a proc...
Witches, Witch-Hunting and Women (Part 1 - Revisiting Capital Accumulation and the European Witch Hunt) - Silvia Federici
16 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
‘Every town has its witch, and every parish its trolls. We will keep them from life with the fire of joy.’ In the first of a two-part episode on '...
A Great Love (Part 1) - Alexandra Kollontai
26 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“All she wanted was to stand between him and the world, relieve him of his worries, help him bear his cross.” This week we're collaborating with ...
Caliban and the Witch (Chapter 4 - The Great Witch-Hunt in Europe) - Silvia Federici
11 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As we delve deepter into Silvia Federici's 'Caliban and the Witch', we learn about the origins of the banning of reproductive sex and the demonisation...
My Answer to an American Questionnaire - Pasha Angelina
03 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“How did you become what you are, Pasha?” Praskovya Angelina, affectionately known as Pasha Angelina, takes issue with an American Enc...
Caliban and the Witch - Silvia Federici (Chapter 3 - The Great Caliban: The Struggle Against The Rebel Body)
27 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How were we transformed from humans into machines? In this third installement of Silvia Federici's 'Caliban and the Witch' we discuss 'Chapter 3 - The...
Caliban and the Witch - Federici (Chapter 2 - The Accumulation of Labor and Degradation of Women)
17 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this incredibly dense chapter we take a deep dive into topics such as women's bodily autonomy, economic abuse, the weight placed on women by auster...
Communism and the Family - Alexandra Kollontai
05 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
'Capitalism has placed a crushing burden on women's shoulders.' In this piece by one of the towering figures of the working-women's movement, Kollonta...
Caliban and the Witch - Silvia Federici (Chapter I - All the World Needs a Jolt)
23 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Women, the body and 'primitive accumulation'. In just the first chapter of this essential work, Silvia Federici wrestles with these topics, and many m...
How Lenin Studied Marx - Nadezhda Krupskaya
16 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"In moments of greatest difficulty and danger, when many stronger comrades lost heart and succumbed to doubt, Nadezhda Krupskaya remained always the s...
Reform or Revolution - Rosa Luxemburg
06 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Reform or Revolution? Why is one doomed to fail while the other is the only path capable of delivering us from capitalism and bringing about the  ...
Capital #16 - Primitive Accumulation (ch. 26-33)
28 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This time we learn how the enclosure of the commons, the centralisation of the land and the privatisation of the product of agricultural production co...
Capital #15 - The Process of Accumulation of Capital (ch. 23-25)
18 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How do the rich become rich? In another wide-ranging episode we cover topics including how being rich leads to being richer, the tendency of large bus...
Capital #14 - Production of Absolute and Relative Surplus-Value; and Wages (ch. 16-22)
20 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we're covering the two types of surplus-value and how they are produced; as well as wages, what they are and why we are paid in the wa...
Capital #13 Bonus
16 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Like (almost) always, there's some bonus talk in this session. Enjoy! Follow us on Twitter at @prolesbookclub and shoot us a DM if you need links to...
Capital #13 - Machinery and Large-Scale Industry (Part 2 - ch. 15 continued)
01 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
More dialectics, more dualities. Machinery is wielded as a weapon against the working class. Marx shows us how machinery was not the great liberator i...
Capital #12 - Bonus
21 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this bonus session we take a break from talking about books to talk about.. other books, and a couple of movies. Books mentioned: The Hobbit...
Capital #12 - Machinery and Large-Scale Industry (ch. 15)
18 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Machinery makes things easier, but for who? This time we're talking about the development of machinery, the effects of machinery on the lives of th...
Dialectical and Historical Materialism - Bonus
11 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Stalin the eco-Marxist? Is China socialist? Some extra discussion on Stalin's 'Dialectical and Historical Materialism'. Enjoy! Follow us on Twitter a...
Dialectical and Historical Materialism - Stalin
06 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This 1938 piece is crucial to understanding the Marxist dialectical method and the conditions of material life and society. We explore the ever mobile...
Capital #11 - Surplus Value, Co-operation and the Division of Labour (ch. 11-14)
21 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
While the capitalists expropriate our surplus value, we learn how we work better together despite our alienation from one another. But is even this ba...
Capital #10 - The Working Day (ch. 10)
20 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Feel like you're always at work? In this wide-ranging discussion we cover the working-day, reproductive labour, the gig economy, unpaid internships an...
On Protracted War - Mao
12 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this underrated text, written during the War of Resistance in mid-1938, Mao Zedong stood strong in the face of criticism from temporary allies, the...
Capital #9 - Constant and Variable Capital; and the Rate of Surplus Value (ch. 8-9)
04 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
As Marx clarifies and consolidates his theory of surplus-value; we talk 'dead-labour', 'living-labour' and the laughing-stock that is Nassau William S...
Capital #8 - The Labour Process and the Valorization Process (ch. 7)
29 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The workers built the world! Join us in our lengthy discussion on how human beings impose their will on the natural world and how how our old friend ...
Capital #7 - Bonus
22 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Like (almost) always, there's some bonus talk in this session. Enjoy! Follow us on Twitter at @prolesbookclub and shoot us a DM if you need links to...
Capital #7 - The Buying and Selling of Labour-Power (ch. 6)
20 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Wanna see how the free man converts himself into a slave for a fixed amount of time in exchange for a living wage? Join us in our discussion of Ch.6: ...
Capital #6 - The General Formula for Capital (ch. 4-5)
11 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
M-C-M? C-M-C? Join us as we learn how money becomes capital! In this episode we continue on our journey through Karl Marx's masterpiece 'Capital Volum...
Combat Liberalism - Mao
05 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Join the Proles as we read through Mao's deeply insightful pamphlet 'Combat Liberalism' from 1937. We look at how these ideas applied to their own his...
Capital #5 - Bonus
30 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Like always, there's some bonus talk in this session. Enjoy! Follow us on Twitter at @prolesbookclub, and shoot us a DM if you need links to compani...
Capital #5 - Money continued (ch. 3)
30 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Proles finally finish up the notorious behemoth that is Chapter 3: Money, or the circulation of commodities. Have faith! If you can make it throu...
Capital #4 - Bonus
10 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Like always, there's some bonus talk in this session. Enjoy! Follow us on Twitter at @prolesbookclub, and shoot us a DM if you need links to co...
Capital #4 - Money (ch. 3)
08 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Proles continue onto Chapter 3: Money, or the Circulation of Commodities. Follow us on Twitter at @prolesbookclub and shoot us a DM if you need l...
Capital #3 - Bonus
02 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Like always, there's some bonus talk in this session. Enjoy! Follow us on Twitter at @prolesbookclub, and shoot us a DM if you need links to com...
Capital #3 – Exchange (ch. 2)
27 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, the Proles get a well-needed respite from the behemoth that was Chapter 1, and discuss Marx's chapter on Exchange. Follow us on Twi...
Capital #2 – Bonus
08 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Some more sweet bonus content for our lovely comrades! The session was edited by Tadici. Intro/Outro music based on "Proles Pod Theme" by Ra...
Capital #2 – The Commodity, continued (ch. 1)
30 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this session we finish our discussion on the first chapter of Capital by Karl Marx. This time we discuss the evolution from the elemantary or acci...
Capital #1 – Bonus
24 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
There was still some interesting discussion after we wrapped so here ya go. Intro music based on "Proles Pod Theme" by Ransom Notes READ MARX READ L...
Capital #1 – The Commodity (Chapter 1)
24 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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