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:
- Reconciling revolution: An interview with Peter Dale ScottOn January 3, 2025, Platypus Affiliated Society member M. P. Byrne interviewed Peter Dale Scott, a former Canadian diplomat, poet, and professor emeritus of English at the University of California Berkeley. His critical writings on deep politics have focused on the clandestine operations of the American state from Vietnam through the War on Terror. Scott’s books include The War Conspiracy: The Secret Road to the Second Indochina War (1972), Deep Politics and the Death of JFK (1993), and most recently Reading the Dream: A Post-Secular History of Enmindment (2024).
- A Marxist critique of DSAThis essay argues that DSA’s commitment to electoralism within the Democratic Party, its reformism without a developed theory of the state, its class composition, and its ideologically diffuse “big tent” model together forms a set of contradictions that Marxist analysis reveals as structural rather than accidental.
- To restore political and social life in Syria: An interview with Yassin al-Haj SalehOn February 2 and March 4, 2025, Platypus Affiliated Society member D. L. Jacobs interviewed Yassin al-Haj Saleh, a Syrian writer and dissident who participated in the Syrian Revolution and the Arab Spring. Saleh was imprisoned from 1980 to 96 for his membership in the Syrian Communist Party (Political Bureau). Saleh is the author of The Impossible Revolution: Making Sense of the Syrian Tragedy (2017) and other books.
Das Neueste aus Die Platypus Review:
- Von Kautsky lernen heißt siegen lernen?Eine Rezension zu Ingar Soltys Buch „Karl Kautsky zur Einführung. Sozialismus und Klassenpartei“ von Johann Richter
- Mit Haustürwahlkämpfen in Richtung einer organisierenden KlassenparteiKommentar zum Podium „Was ist DIE LINKE?“ in Berlin am 4. Juli 2025 von Jorrit
- Was ist DIE LINKE?Am 4. Juli 2025 veranstaltete die Platypus Affiliated Society eine Podiumsdiskussion mit Dietmar Bartsch (DIE LINKE), Martin Suchanek (Gruppe ArbeiterInnen Macht), Charly Roffalski (DIE LINKE) und Jakob (Platypus) in Berlin zum Thema: Was ist DIE LINKE? Es folgt ein editiertes und gekürztes Transkript der Veranstaltung, die unter https://youtu.be/cbxbsZMQgJM?si=kBQueOdhVntk6WRB vollständig angehört werden kann.
