Crisis of the eurozone and the Left

Responses to the global economic downturn

 July 3, 2012  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

THE FOLLOWING TRANSCRIPT is from an event that took place on April 2, 2012 at the University of Chicago, in conjunction with the 2012 Platypus International Convention, titled “Responses to the Global Economic Downturn.” Members and contacts of the Platypus Affiliated Society in Europe were invited to speak on their experience of leftist responses to the economic downturn. The speakers included Haseeb Ahmed (Netherlands), Valentin Badura (Austria), Cengiz Kulac (Austria), Moritz Roeger (Germany), Jerzy Sobotta (Germany), and Thodoris Velissaris (Greece). [Read More]
Crisis  Eurozone  Germany  Greece  Occupy 

Letter from Greece: Brief notes on Revolt and Crisis in Greece and the Greek situation

Review of Antonis Vradis and Dimitris Dalakoglou, eds., *Revolt and crisis in Greece: Between a present yet to pass and a future still to come*

 November 1, 2011  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

Oakland: AK Press & Occupied London, 2011 What is happening here exceeds us. (199) THERE IS A BAD THEORETICAL HABIT common among leftists: the confirmation of revolutionary aspirations through an unmediated verification by the “facts” or “data.” The ghost of an “objective” reality obscures the effort to grasp the “concrete” as the combination of many abstractions and, instead, “a chaotic representation [Vorstellung] of the whole” (Marx) is preferred, offering a temporary foundation for self-affirmation and miraculously turning a “bad” reality into a “good” one. [Read More]
Antonis Vardis  Dimitris Dalakoglou  Greece  Europe  European Union