Counter-Revolutionary Book Club
Dec 11, 2025 · 2 hr 51 min · 18 segments
The Counter-Revolutionary Book Club is a defiantly anti-communist series dedicated to dissecting and analyzing the far left’s most audacious texts and ideas. Explore a curated collection of documents…
Karlyn BorysenkoHost
there is a reason that i harp on the concept of zines people are sick of hearing me talk about the fucking zines people people are like okay carlin why why are you even bringing this shit up like what is so important about these fucking pamphlets that you're going around the country to all of these book fairs to get these zines well let me tell you what The zines tell you what ideas are propagating in the culture right now.
The zines tell you what ideas are floating around the leftist ecosystem right now.
Sorry, I'm still coughing at random times because I'm still the tiniest bit sick.
If you are reading the zines, you know what idea today's activists are thinking about.
And do you know how I know that? Because the thing we're going to read tonight was literally distributed as a fucking zine.
The thing we are about to read, which I think is a declaration of violent insurrection and insanity, the thing we are about to read was handed out as a zine at the No Kings protest.
And we know that because if we go to the anarchist library, which is where we're going to be reading it, the anarchist library is one of the places that we monitor for like new things coming out because everything gets published in the anarchist library.
The anarchist library is a totally free source of some of the most insane dystopian leftist shit ever.
So pretty much everything that is in the leftist ecosystem, we can find a digital copy of that thing in the anarchist library.
But the problem is, again, there's a lot of stuff in the anarchist library that is just like, It's not something a lot of people are reading.
There are some things that are influential in the anarchist library and there's some things that are not influential in the anarchist library.
But one of the things that we do when we find zines in the real world we can go to the anarchist library and find the digital copy of that zine.
there is a reason that i harp on the concept of zines people are sick of hearing me talk about the fucking zines people people are like okay carlin why why are you even bringing this shit up like what is so important about these fucking pamphlets that you're going around the country to all of these book fairs to get these zines well let me tell you what The zines tell you what ideas are propagating in the culture right now.
The zines tell you what ideas are floating around the leftist ecosystem right now.
Sorry, I'm still coughing at random times because I'm still the tiniest bit sick.
If you are reading the zines, you know what idea today's activists are thinking about.
And do you know how I know that? Because the thing we're going to read tonight was literally distributed as a fucking zine.
The thing we are about to read, which I think is a declaration of violent insurrection and insanity, the thing we are about to read was handed out as a zine at the No Kings protest.
And we know that because if we go to the anarchist library, which is where we're going to be reading it, the anarchist library is one of the places that we monitor for like new things coming out because everything gets published in the anarchist library.
The anarchist library is a totally free source of some of the most insane dystopian leftist shit ever.
So pretty much everything that is in the leftist ecosystem, we can find a digital copy of that thing in the anarchist library.
But the problem is, again, there's a lot of stuff in the anarchist library that is just like, It's not something a lot of people are reading.
There are some things that are influential in the anarchist library and there's some things that are not influential in the anarchist library.
But one of the things that we do when we find zines in the real world we can go to the anarchist library and find the digital copy of that zine.
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