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Marx and Wertkritik
Elmar Flatschart Alan Milchman Jamie Merchant . Originally published in the Platypus Review. On Saturday, April 6, 2013, the Platypus Affiliated Society hosted a panel, “Marx and Wertkritik,” at its...
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Black politics in the age of Obama
Cedric Johnson and Mel Rothenberg Platypus Review 57 | June 2013 On May 6, 2013, the Platypus Affiliated Society hosted a conversation on “Black Politics in the Age of Obama” at the University of...
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Conversations on the Left: What is to be done?
Bhaskar Sunkara, James Turley, & Ben Blumberg Platypus Review 57 | June 2013 On April 18th, 2013, the Platypus Affiliated Society organized a conversation at New York University between Bhaskar...
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Program and utopia
Roger Rashi, Sam Gindin, Richard Rubin, Aaron Benanav, and Stephen Eric Bronner . . This year’s Platypus International Convention concluded with the plenary “Program and Utopia,” held on June 6 at the...
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The many deaths of art
Anton Vidokle, Gregg Horowitz, Paul Mattick, and Yates McKee . Image: The “tombstone” of Kazimir Malevich, buried beneath The Black Square (1935) Originally posted over at the Platypus Review. Last...
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What is imperialism? (What now?)
Larry Everest (RCP-USA), Joseph Green (CV), James Turley (CPGB) . Image: Soldiers in Petrograd hold up a banner reading “Death to imperialism! Victory to the Red Army” (1920) Platypus Review 59 |...
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The antinomy of art and politics
A critique of art as cultural resistance . Image: Gustave Courbet, Self-Portrait: Man Smoking a Pipe (c. 1848-1849) Introduction . This article first appeared in September 2011, the same month that...
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The politics of work
Platypus Review December 2013 . . Robert Pollin, Stanley Aronowitz, Jason Wright . .. . . On September 20 2013, the Platypus Affiliated Society organized a panel discussion entitled The Politics of...
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Anti-fascism: Its problematic history and meaning
Manuel Kellner | Henning Mächerle Wolf Wetzel | Jan Gerber . Platypus Review 63 February 1, 2014 Image: Antifascist conference (1922) . Since the Nazi seizure of power eighty years ago...
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Radical ideologies today: Marxism and anarchism
Christoph Lichtenberg, Eva Curry Alex Khasnabish, Chris Parsons This spring, the Platypus Affiliated Society hosted a series panels on “Radical ideologies today: Marxism and anarchism” in New York,...
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Et tu, Slavoj? Must Žižek really be “destroyed”?
. Continuing its proud tradition of accepting literally every panel proposal submitted to it, no matter how poorly written or conceived, this year’s Left Forum at Pace University brings you “Žižek...
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Democracy and the Left
Alan Akrivos, Dick Howard Alan Milchman, Joseph Schwartz . On February 5, 2014, the Platypus Affiliated Society hosted a conversation titled ‘Democracy and the Left’ at the School of Visual Arts in...
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Jeremy Cohan Platypus Review August 1, 2011 . . At the Marxist Literary Group’s Institute on Culture and Society 2011, held on June 20–24, 2011 at the Institute for the Humanities,...
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The concept of the Left and the Right
A moderated panel Platypus Review 68 July 4th, 2014 . Chris Cutrone|Nikos Malliaris|Samir Gandesha . .. . We are the 99%! — Occupy Wall Street (September 2011) . The Left must define itself on the...
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The theory of “reification”
A response to Georg Lukács . Izrail’ Vainshtein Under the Banner of Marxism 10 (1924) . . The philosophical explanations present among people claiming to be Marxists manifest a...
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New York University November 26, 2012 Platypus Review 56 . . ..Loren Goldner | David Harvey Andrew Kliman | Paul Mattick . . . Last autumn, chapters of the Platypus Affiliated Society in New...
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Public discussion on “War and Capitalist Crisis” in NYC
In New York next week there will be a public discussion, the event description of which you can read below, on the conflict in Ukraine. This is part of a broader effort to gather contributions for an...
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