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Liberalism and Marx: An interview with Domenico Losurdo

Pam C. Nogales C. and Ross Wolfe Platypus Review 46 | May 2012 On March 17, 2012, Ross Wolfe and Pam Nogales of the Platypus Affiliated Society interviewed Domenico Losurdo, the author, most recently, of Liberalism: A Counter-History (2011). What follows is an edited transcript of their conversation. Full video of the interview can be found at <http://vimeo.com/38923840> Ross Wolfe: [...]

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Changes in art and society: A view from the present

Mary Jane Jacob, Robert Pippin, and Walter Benn Michaels Platypus Review 46 | May 2012 On 31 March 2012, the Platypus Affiliated Society invited Mary Jane Jacob (School of the Art Institute of Chicago), Robert Pippin (University of Chicago), and Walter Benn Michaels (University of Illinois at Chicago) to speak on the theme of “Changes in Art [...]

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Splits, regroupments, war, and revolution in Germany, 1914–1920: A conversation with Ben Lewis

Spencer A. Leonard and Watson Ladd Platypus Review 46 | May 2012   Last winter, on their radio show Radical Minds on WHPK-FM Chicago, Spencer A. Leonard and Watson Ladd interviewed Ben Lewis, a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain and co-author and translator, together with Lars T. Lih, of Zinoviev and Martov: Head to Head in [...]

| May 1st, 2012 | Continued

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Platypus Review editorial statement of purpose and submission guidelines

Statement of purpose Taking stock of the universe of positions and goals that constitutes leftist politics today, we are left with the disquieting suspicion that a deep commonality underlies the apparent variety: What exists today is built upon the desiccated remains of what was once possible. In order to make sense of the present, we [...]

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About Platypus

The Platypus Affiliated Society The Platypus Affiliated Society, established in December 2006, organizes reading groups, public fora, research and journalism focused on problems and tasks inherited from the “Old” (1920s-30s), “New” (1960s-70s) and post-political (1980s-90s) Left for the possibilities of emancipatory politics today. [PDF] Get connected with the Platypus Yahoo! discussion group and the Platypus [...]

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Platypus summer 2012: Democracy and Marxism

Chicago Saturdays 1–4PM School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) 112 S. Michigan Ave. room 920 Facebook invitation: http://www.facebook.com/events/339098822822962/ • required / + recommended reading Film screening: May 2012 • Last Party 2000 (2001) Week 1. May 26, 2012 Marx and democracy • Dick Howard, selections from The Specter of Democracy (2002) + Howard, [...]

May 14th, 2012 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Platypus summer 2012: Trotsky and Trotskyism

Boston, Chicago, Halifax, New York, Philadelphia, and Toronto Saturdays 1–4PM School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) 112 S. Michigan Ave. room 920 2–5PM New School University New York (New School) Lang Café, Eugene Lang Building 65 W. 11th St. ground floor (enter at 66 W. 12th St.) conference room New York University (NYU) [...]

May 8th, 2012 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Platypus introductory readings

10 sessions of readings introducing the raison d’être of the Platypus project.

August 3rd, 2010 | | Comments Off | Continued
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Platypus introductory readings II

A second series of 10 sessions introducing the raison d’être of the Platypus project.

January 16th, 2011 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Platypus primary Marxist reading group Winter–Spring 2012

II. Introduction to revolutionary Marxism Chicago, Frankfurt, London, New York, and Thessaloniki Saturdays 1–4PM School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) 112 S. Michigan Ave. room 920 New School University New York (New School) Lang Café, Eugene Lang Building 65 W. 11th St. ground floor (enter at 66 W. 12th St.) University of Chicago [...]

December 18th, 2011 | | 0 comments | Continued
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The occupation of art’s labor: An interview with Julia Bryan-Wilson

Chris Mansour Platypus Review 45 | April 2012 [PDF] On November 28, 2011, Chris Mansour interviewed Julia Bryan-Wilson, Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of California, Berkeley and the author of Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam War Era (2009). Mansour and Bryan-Wilson talked about the history of the Art Workers’ Coalition and [...]

April 1st, 2012 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Learning from the Communist Movement of the 20th century

A response to Richard Rubin Grover Furr Platypus Review 45 | April 2012 [PDF]   RICHARD RUBIN ARGUES that “the 1930s were a decade of defeat for the Left.” His essay, “1933,” in the Platypus Review issue on The Decline of the Left in the 20th Century,[1] is an idealist abstraction from real historical events, one founded on [...]

April 1st, 2012 | | 9 comments | Continued
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The New Left zombie is dead! Long live Occupy!

David Haack Platypus Review 45 | April 2012 [PDF] In the Eighteenth Brumaire, Marx disagrees with Hegel’s famous quote about history when he writes, “Hegel remarks somewhere that all facts and personages of great importance in world history occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce…”[1] Occupy [...]

April 1st, 2012 | | 2 comments | Continued
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What is the #Occupy movement?

A roundtable discussion Hannah Appel, Erik Van Deventer, Nathan Schneider, Brian Dominick, and Jeremy Cohan. Platypus Review 44 | March 2012 [PDF] Late in 2011, the Platypus Affiliated Society hosted a series of roundtable debates on the #Occupy Wall Street Movement. Speakers at the event held on December 9, 2011 at New York University included Hannah Appel (OWS [...]

March 1st, 2012 | | 1 comment | Continued
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Marx at the margins: An interview with Kevin Anderson

Spencer A. Leonard Platypus Review 44 | March 2012 [PDF] Last summer, Spencer A. Leonard interviewed Kevin Anderson, author of Lenin, Hegel, and Western Marxism (1995) and Marx at the Margins (2010). The interview was broadcast on August 2, 2011 on the radio show Radical Minds on WHPK–FM Chicago. What follows is an edited transcript of their [...]

March 1st, 2012 | | 1 comment | Continued


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