Capital in history: The need for a Marxian philosophy of history of the Left
I want to speak about the meaning of history for any purportedly Marxian Left. We in Platypus focus on the history of the Left because we think that the narrative one tells about this history is in...
View ArticleObama and Clinton: "Third Way" politics and the "Left"
For the “Left” that is critical of him, the most common comparison made of Obama is to Bill Clinton. This critique of Obama, as of Clinton, denounces his “Centrism,” the trajectory he appears to...
View ArticleSchool of the Art Institute of Chicago marxist reading group meetings
SAIC chapter meets Sundays at 112 S. Michigan Ave. room 707 (7th floor) 1-4PM Contact lrojas@saic.edu if you are not affiliated with SAIC. The post School of the Art Institute of Chicago marxist...
View ArticleUniversity of Chicago, SAIC, MIT, NYU reading group starts January 11
1960s paths not taken (1): Civil Rights - Black Power Platypus Marxist readings for Sunday January 11, 2009 · Richard Fraser, Two Lectures on the Black Question in America and Revolutionary...
View ArticleUniversity of Chicago Marxist reading group Winter-Spring 2009
Platypus chapter at University of Chicago meets Sundays at Reynolds Club 5706 S. University Ave. 2nd floor South Lounge 2-5PM For more information contact mtorre3@artic.edu The post University of...
View ArticleSAIC Reading Group Spring 2009
Platypus chapter at SAIC meets Sundays at School of the Art Institute of Chicago 112 S. Michigan Ave. Room 707 1-4pm [contact: ian.morrison.a@gmail.com] The post SAIC Reading Group Spring 2009 appeared...
View ArticleTrotsky on art and politics: “with a sword or at least a whip in hand”
Re: Platypus: "They had friends, they had enemies, they fought, and exactly through this they demonstrated their right to exist." -- Trotsky, on the history of new political and artistic movements...
View ArticleBook review: Karl Korsch, Marxism and Philosophy
KARL KORSCH'S SEMINAL ESSAY “Marxism and Philosophy” (1923) was first published in English, translated by Fred Halliday, in 1970 by Monthly Review Press. In 2008, they reprinted the volume, which also...
View ArticleComments on Chris Cutrone’s review of Marxism and Philosophy by Karl Korsch
CHRIS CUTRONE WRITES, “What the usual interpretive emphasis on Lukács occludes is that the Frankfurt School writers grappled not only with the problem of Stalinism but with that of ‘anti-Stalinism’ as...
View ArticleTrotsky and Trotskyism, Lecture 7, 7.28.12
Richard Rubin Lecture 7: 1953-1963 Part of the Summer 2012 Platypus Affiliated Society Primary Reading Group Lecture Series: Trotsky and Trotskyism • recommended / + supplemental reading Week 7...
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