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 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedFeature Article #1
The movement as an end-in-itself? An interview with David Graeber
Ross Wolfe Platypus Review 43 | February 2012 [PDF] On December 16, 2011, Ross Wolfe interviewed David Graeber, Reader at Goldsmiths College in London , author of Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (2004), and central figure in the early stages of the #Occupy Wall Street Movement. What follows is an edited transcript of the interview. Ross Wolfe: [...]
PR web editor | January 31st, 2012 | Continued
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A destroyer of vulgar-Marxism
Platypus Review 43 | February 2012 [PDF] Book review: Karl Korsch, Marxism and Philosophy (Leipzig: C.L. Hirschfeld, 1923). Karl Kautsky Karl Kautsky’s 1924 review of Karl Korsch’s Marxism and Philosophy appears below in English for the first time [1]. It is hoped that other reviews of Marxism and Philosophy will also be made available in the very near [...]
PR web editor | January 30th, 2012 | Continued
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“Thirty years of counter-revolution”: An interview with Clyde Young
Spencer A. Leonard Platypus Review 43 | February 2012 [PDF] Last summer, Spencer A. Leonard interviewed Clyde Young, a veteran member of the Revolutionary Communist Party. The interview was broadcast on June 31, 2011 on the radio show Radical Minds on WHPK–FM Chicago. What follows is an edited transcript of their conversation. A shorter version of this [...]
PR web editor | January 29th, 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 [...]
Platypus Review editor | November 1st, 2007 | Continued
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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 [...]
