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The Platypus Affiliated Society, established in December 2006, organizes reading groups, public fora, research and journalism focused on the 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.

The Latest from The Platypus Review:

  • “You can’t leave it all to the market”: An interview with Paul Cockshott
    On February 4, 2023, Platypus Affiliated Society members Diana Caudwell and D. L. Jacobs interviewed Paul Cockshott, a computer scientist, communist, and a lecturer at the University of Glasgow. Cockshott was a member of the British and Irish Communist Organisation in the 1970s, but later resigned along with other members, forming the Communist Organisation in the British Isles. He has written several books, including Towards a New Socialism (1993) and most recently How the World Works (2020).
  • Constant radical: An interview with Sue Bradford
    On June 6, 2023, Platypus Affiliated Society member Michael McClelland interviewed Sue Bradford. Bradford joined the Left in Aotearoa, New Zealand during the New Left era, participating in various organizations that recruited on campuses during the anti-Vietnam protests of the 1960s and 70s. After a brief absence from activism, she took part in 1981’s anti-racist campaigns against apartheid South Africa’s rugby team, who were then touring New Zealand. Shortly after, she joined the unemployed workers’ movement in the 1980s, before eventually becoming a household name as a Green Party Member of Parliament for 10 years in the 2000s. She now runs workshops for activists from a cooperative which she co-founded, Kōtare in Wellsford, where she also lives.
  • Advancing by return? An interview with Spencer A. Leonard
    On March 12, 2023, for episode 56 of the podcast Sh*t Platypus Says, Platypus Affiliated Society members Pamela C. Nogales C. and Andreas Wintersperger interviewed Spencer A. Leonard about the two volumes of Marx and Engels’s journalism that he has edited and written introductions for: Marx and Engels on Imperialism: Selected Journalism, 1856–62 and Marx and Engels on Bonapartism: Selected Journalism, 1851–59. Both volumes were published in 2023 by Lexington Books. Leonard is a founding member of the Platypus Affiliated Society. He teaches sociology at James Madison University.

Das Neueste aus Die Platypus Review:

  • Was ist revolutionäre Intersektionalität?
    Wie die Gewerkschaftsbewegung im Zweiten Deutschen Kaiserreich können heutige intersektionale Bewegungen die Selbstorganisation von Marginalisierten bewerkstelligen, die sich dadurch ihrer Marginalisierung entledigen können. Das Motto von Platypus lässt sich so wie folgt reformulieren: Nicht die Linke ist tot, bloß der Marxismus.
  • Sexuelle Befreiung und die Linke
    Der Ursprung alles menschlichen Lebens ist die Sexualität und alle Geschichte ist die Geschichte von Klassenkämpfen. Aber als wissenschaftlicher und politischer Begriff ist Sexualität ebenso wie Sozialismus und Marxismus ein Produkt der Moderne. Das Teach-in will der Frage nachgehen, wie Marxistinnen und Marxisten seitdem das Verhältnis von sexueller Befreiung und sozialistischer Revolution beurteilten und charakterisieren.