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 Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity. 

For part 3, Comrade Adam leads the discussion on advertising, the rise of the corporation, scientific management, imperialist eschatology, and we all get sick along the way at the sheer depravity of capitalism's development in the Gilded Age.

Further Readings/References

• Eugene McCarraher
• The Enchantments of Mammon Review
• Max Weber
• The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
• McCarraher on This is Hell!
• 8 Limbs of Yoga (Ashtanga)
• Stoicism
• Charles Taylor's Sources of the Self
• Liberation Theology
• Homestead Strike
• Pullman Strike
• Westinghouse's Dynamo
• Frederick W. Taylor
• Walter Lippman
• Robber Barons
• Ehrenreich on the PMC
• International Harvester's Pension Program
• Welfare Capitalism
• lil piss/yung piss
• Big Bill Haywood
• Christopher Lasch

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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 framework, gender abolition, biological essentialism, shame, spirituality, and tons more!

Further Reading/References

• bell hooks
• The Will to Change Review and Summary
• Relational-Cultural Theory
• adrienne marie brown
• Alain Badiou on Love
• Erich Fromm
• Emotional Labor Doesn't Mean What You Think It Does
• Postgenderism
• Wages for Housework
• Enemy Trailer
• Virtue Ethics

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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, how patriarchy impacts the ways men's ability to love and be vulnerable, and tons more. This one gets pretty personal for all of us in the best possible way.

Further Reading/References

• bell hooks
• The Will to Change Review and Summary
• Capitalist Realism
• Restorative Justice
• Barbara Deming
• Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
• Second-wave Feminism

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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 Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity. 

For part 2, CC Don is in the driver's seat and we are going to focus on Mammonism in the mid-19th century in the U.S. Topics of note include Puritanism, Transcendentalism, and all sorts of other good stuff. And CC Don brings his icy cold analysis as per usual with some core questions about McCarraher's concepts thus far. 

Further Readings/References

• Eugene McCarraher
• The Enchantments of Mammon Review
• Max Weber
• The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

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The Red Troika offers the most systematic, complex Icy Cold Take in the show's history focused on the conservative reactionary mindset in Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy.

Batman (the symbol of neoliberal right-wing authoritarian power) must battle his 3 greatest ideological foes: liberal technocratic biopower, a completely misunderstood version of anarchism, and the greatest threat, revolutionary Marxism-Leninism. But there is an even GREATER threat looming behind all 3...

The icy told take is so frosty it's gonna give you frostbite. Make sure to wear your mittens, comrades!

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Part of Red Library's Revolutionary Politics in Central and South America Series

At long last, we finally tackle the Guatemalan Revolution and the tragic rise and fall of Jacobo Arbenz in 1954 in a monstrous, dense two-part episode on Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States 1944-1954 by Piero Gleijeses.

In part 2, we pick up on Jacobo Arbenz's presidency, Decree 900 and agrarian reform in Guatemala, the beginnings of the CIA plot to out Arbenz, and take it all the way up to the final tragic days of Arbenz as the U.S.-backed coup led by Castillo Armas closes in on Guatemala City. We do our best to wrap up the episode and talk about what we can take away from studying the history of a communist vision for Guatemala that was brutally extinguished in the 1950's.

Further Reading/References

• Piero Gleijeses
• Radio War Nerd Patreon Page
• r/badhistory post on Jacobo Arbenz
• Maria Cristina Vilanova
• Jose Manuel Fortuny
• Guatemalan Party of Labour
• Decree 900
• The Logic of Violence in Civil War
• Formosa
• Adam Curtis's Documentary on Edward Bernays and Public Relations
• Archbishop Rossell y Arellano
• Castillo Armas
• Edward Bernays
• Dean Acheson
• Operation AJAX
• Allan Dulles
• John Foster Dulles
• Operation FORTUNE
• Operation PBSUCCESS
• Council on Foreign Relations
• John Peurifoy
• When Mountains Tremble
• Operation Gladio
• Efrain Rios Montt
• Human Terrain System
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Part of Red Library's Revolutionary Politics in Central and South America Series

At long last, we finally tackle the Guatemalan Revolution and the tragic rise and fall of Jacobo Arbenz in 1954 in a monstrous, dense two-part episode on Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States 1944-1954 by Piero Gleijeses.

In part 1, we discuss the context of the book and some details about Gleijeses, the history of authoritarian dictators in Guatemala through the 1930's and 1940's, Juan Jose Arevalo, Arbenz and his background, the United Fruit Company, and tons more!

Further Reading/References

• Piero Gleijeses
• Radio War Nerd Patreon Page
• r/badhistory post on Jacobo Arbenz
• When Mountains Tremble Full Film
• Granito Trailer
• Anti-Imperialism: An Introductory Reading List on the Capillaries Blog
• Jacobo Arbenz
• The Guatemalan Revolution
• Juan Jose Arevalo
• Jose Manuel Fortuny
• 1932 Salvadoran Peasant Uprising and Massacre
• Jorge Ubico
• Juan Federico Ponce Vaides
• Castillo Armas
• Edward Bernays
• John Foster Dulles
• Carribean Legion
• Thomas Sankara

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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 Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity. 

Chris leads us through the Introduction and Part 1 to get things off just right. We talk about the general thesis of the book that the world is not disenchanted with capitalism but enchanted in a new corrupt way, the moral economy, the Commons, medieval communal life, Protestantism, romantic anti-capitalism, the Big Beards, William Blake, and tons more!

Further Readings/References

• Eugene McCarraher
• The Enchantments of Mammon Review
• Max Weber
• The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
• The Medieval Moral Economy
• The Commons
• The Reconquista
• Lebensraum
• John Locke
• Paradise Lost
• Gerard Winstanley
• David Hume
• Thomas Malthus
• William Blake
• John Ruskin
• William Morris
• Narodniks
• Wassily Kandinsky
• Gustav Landauer

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GET ACCESS TO THE FULL EPISODE FOR AS LITTLE AS $1/MONTH AT RED LIBRARY'S PATREON PAGE IN THE SHOW NOTES BELOW!   For this very special Patron-exclusive episode of Red Library, we had a round-table discussion with patrons of the show and a few special guests to talk about the ongoing BLM protests against racial violence and brutality by the State and police in the U.S. and around the globe!   This is going to be the first of many future roundtable discussions with patrons so get in on RL's Discord server to participate in future discussions and episodes!   ***BIG SHOUT OUT TO COMRADE TIBERIUS FOR HELPING ON THE EDITING FOR THIS EPISODE! o7***

Further Reading/References

• Article on Balko’s Rise of the Warrior Cop
• Puerto Rican BLM Protestors Bring Guillotine to Governor’s Mansion
• “Mask Off: Crisis & Struggle in the Pandemic,” 06 June 2020, Hunsinger, Richard and Eisenberg, Nathan, Cosmonaut.
• “Ten Days that Shook the World,” 04 June 2020, RS21.
• “Racism Is Surging in Germany. Tens of Thousands Are Taking to the Streets to Call for Justice”
• https://www.conter.co.uk/blog/2020/6/15/blm-anatomy-of-a-movement\
• https://www.leftvoice.org/inside-chaz-a-first-hand-account-of-the-autonomous-zone-in-seattle
• https://twitter.com/heresysquad/status/1272723171112706049
• https://itsgoingdown.org/get-in-the-zone/

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All aboard the McGowan train for part 4 of our Capitalism and Desire reading series! CHOO CHOO, COMRADES.

This one is all about sacrifice and the unconscious ways we sacrifice continuously in capitalism despite claims that the necessity of sacrifice is no longer needed in our modern, rationalist society.

Further Reading/References

• Georges Bataille
• The Social Consequence of Everything College Humor Video 

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