Neoliberalism and its discontents

Neoliberalism and its discontents
ON APRIL 10, 2015, the Platypus Affiliated Society hosted a discussion on neoliberalism and the Left featuring Walter Benn Michaels, author of The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality; Toby Chow, an organizer with Southsiders Organized for Unity and Liberation (SOUL) and The People’s Lobby; Margaret Power, author of Right-Wing Women in Chile: Feminine Power and the Struggle Against Allende, 1964–1973; and Donald Parkinson, a founding member of the Communist League of Tampa. [Read More]

The American left and the "Black Question"

From politics to protest to the post-political

The American left and the "Black Question"
THE PLATYPUS AFFILIATED SOCIETY hosted a discussion on the politics of anti-racism and the American left on April 11, 2015 in Chicago. The speakers were Toby Chow, an organizer with Southsiders Organized for Unity and Liberation (SOUL) and The People’s Lobby; Brandon Johnson, an organizer for Chicago Teachers Union (CTU); August Nimtz, author of Lenin’s Electoral Strategy from 1907 to the October Revolution of 1917 (2014); and Adolph Reed, Jr. [Read More]