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Fighting Fascism - Clara Zetkin from 2020-07-25T23:46:42
“Fascism is the strongest, most concentrated, and classic expression at this time of the world bourgeoisie’s general offensive. It is urgently necessary that it be brought down."
Witches, Witch-Hunting and Women (Part 2 - New Forms of Capital Accumulation and Witch-Hunting in Our Time) - Silvia Federici from 2020-05-26T11:39:15
"We are witnessing an escalation of violence against women, especially African-descendant and Native-American women, because 'globalisation' is a process of political recolonisation intended to ...
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Witches, Witch-Hunting and Women (Part 1 - Revisiting Capital Accumulation and the European Witch Hunt) - Silvia Federici from 2020-05-16T20:55:05
‘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 'Witches, Witch-Hunting a...
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A Great Love (Part 2) - Alexandra Kollontai from 2020-05-06T20:02:40
This week we're once again collaborating with our comrades from The Tolerant Left podcast to bring the second of our two part episode covering 'A Great Love' by...
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A Great Love (Part 1) - Alexandra Kollontai from 2020-04-26T19:23:26
“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 our comrades from The ...
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Caliban and the Witch (Chapter 5 - Colonisation and Christianisation) - Silvia Federici from 2020-04-18T15:21:40
In our fifth and final installment of our readings from Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici we focus on 'Chapter 5 - Colonisation and Christianisat...
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Caliban and the Witch (Chapter 4 - The Great Witch-Hunt in Europe) - Silvia Federici from 2020-04-11T13:52
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 of homosexuality, how wome...
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My Answer to an American Questionnaire - Pasha Angelina from 2020-04-03T20:02:21
“How did you become what you are, Pasha?”
Praskovya Angelina, affectionately known as Pasha Angelina, takes issue with an American Encyclopaedia's recognition of her as being ...
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Caliban and the Witch - Silvia Federici (Chapter 3 - The Great Caliban: The Struggle Against The Rebel Body) from 2020-03-27T22:00:35
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 Great Caliban: The...
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Caliban and the Witch - Federici (Chapter 2 - The Accumulation of Labor and Degradation of Women) from 2020-03-17T00:39:21
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 austerity, women as the reproducers of the workforce,...
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Communism and the Family - Alexandra Kollontai from 2020-03-05T20:47:12
'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, Kollontai shows how the old family unit is no longer us...
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Caliban and the Witch - Silvia Federici (Chapter I - All the World Needs a Jolt) from 2020-02-23T23:08:16
Women, the body and 'primitive accumulation'. In just the first chapter of this essential work, Silvia Federici wrestles with these topics, and many more. Join us in the first of our readings on 'C...
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How Lenin Studied Marx - Nadezhda Krupskaya from 2020-02-16T13:53:11
"In moments of greatest difficulty and danger, when many stronger comrades lost heart and succumbed to doubt, Nadezhda Krupskaya remained always the same, totally convinced of the rightness of t...
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Reform or Revolution - Rosa Luxemburg from 2020-02-06T21:42:45
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 vital changes necessary to tackle the manif...
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Capital #16 - Primitive Accumulation (ch. 26-33) from 2020-01-28T20:58:51
This time we learn how the enclosure of the commons, the centralisation of the land and the privatisation of the product of agricultural production coerces us through threat of death to join the ne...
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Capital #15 - The Process of Accumulation of Capital (ch. 23-25) from 2020-01-18T00:02:10
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 businesses to devour smaller ones, the brutal livi...
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Capital #14 - Production of Absolute and Relative Surplus-Value; and Wages (ch. 16-22) from 2019-12-20T16:42:37
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 ways that we are. As we go through chapters 16-22...
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Capital #13 Bonus from 2019-12-16T08:01:56
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 companion resources. If you'd like to join the ...
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Capital #13 - Machinery and Large-Scale Industry (Part 2 - ch. 15 continued) from 2019-12-01T19:10:27
More dialectics, more dualities. Machinery is wielded as a weapon against the working class. Marx shows us how machinery was not the great liberator it was made out to be. When capital gives with o...
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Capital #12 - Bonus from 2019-11-21T20:42:44
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, The Lord of the Rings, T...
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Capital #12 - Machinery and Large-Scale Industry (ch. 15) from 2019-11-18T20:44:01
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 the workers and their families, automation, class ...
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Dialectical and Historical Materialism - Bonus from 2019-11-11T20:24:10
Stalin the eco-Marxist? Is China socialist? Some extra discussion on Stalin's 'Dialectical and Historical Materialism'. Enjoy! Follow us on Twitter at @prolesbookclub and shoot us a DM if you need ...
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Dialectical and Historical Materialism - Stalin from 2019-11-06T23:02:07
This 1938 piece is crucial to understanding the Marxist dialectical method and the conditions of material life and society. We explore the ever mobile, ever shifting state of nature and, with our b...
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Capital #11 - Surplus Value, Co-operation and the Division of Labour (ch. 11-14) from 2019-10-21T20:10:04
While the capitalists expropriate our surplus value, we learn how we work better together despite our alienation from one another. But is even this basic human co-operation stolen from us too? In t...
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Capital #10 - The Working Day (ch. 10) from 2019-09-20T01:41:16
Feel like you're always at work? In this wide-ranging discussion we cover the working-day, reproductive labour, the gig economy, unpaid internships and more. Listen to the Proles as they take on '...
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On Protracted War - Mao from 2019-09-12T15:34:47
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 Kuomintang, and analysed the political situati...
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Capital #9 - Constant and Variable Capital; and the Rate of Surplus Value (ch. 8-9) from 2019-09-04T20:05:55
As Marx clarifies and consolidates his theory of surplus-value; we talk 'dead-labour', 'living-labour' and the laughing-stock that is Nassau William Senior's 'last-hour theory'. Join the Proles an...
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Capital #8 - The Labour Process and the Valorization Process (ch. 7) from 2019-08-29T21:20:33
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 Mr. Moneybags expropriates the surplus value tha...
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Capital #7 - Bonus from 2019-08-22T16:00
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 companion resources. If you'd like to join the ...
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Capital #7 - The Buying and Selling of Labour-Power (ch. 6) from 2019-08-20T16:00
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: The Buying and Selling of Labour-Power. This ...
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Capital #6 - The General Formula for Capital (ch. 4-5) from 2019-08-11T21:28:47
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 Volume I' and we take on 'Chapter 4: The General For...
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Combat Liberalism - Mao from 2019-08-05T17:19:24
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 historical context, to our current times as well a...
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Capital #5 - Bonus from 2019-07-30T18:48:02
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 companion resources. If you want to join us, chip in a ...
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Capital #5 - Money continued (ch. 3) from 2019-07-30T17:34:38
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 through this chapter, the rest of the book becomes m...
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Capital #4 - Bonus from 2019-07-10T11:51:35
Like always, there's some bonus talk in this session. Enjoy!
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Capital #4 - Money (ch. 3) from 2019-07-08T18:36:44
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 links to companion resources. If you want to joi...
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Capital #3 - Bonus from 2019-07-02T22:46:54
Like always, there's some bonus talk in this session. Enjoy!
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Capital #3 – Exchange (ch. 2) from 2019-06-27T23:36:47
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 Twitter at @prolesbookclub, and shoot us a DM if yo...
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Capital #2 – Bonus from 2019-05-08T23:20:58
Some more sweet bonus content for our lovely comrades!
The session was edited by Tadici.
Intro/Outro music based on "Proles Pod Theme" by Ransom Notes <...
Capital #2 – The Commodity, continued (ch. 1) from 2019-04-30T20:20:18
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 accidental form of value to the money form and comm...
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Capital #1 – Bonus from 2019-04-24T15:57:08
There was still some interesting discussion after we wrapped so here ya go.
Intro music based on "Proles Pod Theme" by Ransom Notes
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Capital #1 – The Commodity (Chapter 1) from 2019-04-24T15:56:15
Welcome to Red Book Club. We are a Marxist educational podcast and study group challenging ourselves and each other to learn and grow by analysing and breaking down a wide array of important wor...
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