Overview of all pages with the category #2019 - THE PLATYPUS AFFILIATED SOCIETY

Teach-in: Capital in History (Boston), 9.27.19

January 12, 2020 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

On September 27, 2019, at the Democracy Center in Cambridge, MA, the Platypus Affiliated Society hosted a teach-in led by Platypus members Divya M. and Soren W. on capital in history. What is the development of freedom in human history from the Platypus perspective? In the mid-19th century, Marx and Engels famously observed that a \“specter was haunting Europe: the specter of Communism\“. 170 years later, it is Marxism itself that haunts us, while capitalism remains. [Read More]

Ep. 20: On Euphoria & Gen Z, the UK General Elections, and voting Labour

December 10, 2019 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

On this episode of SPS, we discuss HBO’s Euphoria, what it says about the emerging “Zoomer” culture, and whether Gen Z’s cynicism should be taken for granted. Sophia Freeman interviews Peter Tatchell, a human rights advocate and veteran activist of the LGBTQ movement. They discuss his experience on the left and his thoughts on Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party. On the second half of the episode, Pamela Nogales is joined by London Platypus members, Efraim C. [Read More]

Sex and the Left (Bay Area, 8.12.19)

December 8, 2019 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

[archiveorg sexandtheleft2019 width=640 height=140 frameborder=0 webkitallowfullscreen=true mozallowfullscreen=true] Panel discussion on the topic of “Sex and the Left” at the Howard Zinn Book Fair in San Francisco on 8 Dec 2019, hosted by the Platypus Affiliated Society. Moderator: William Lushbough Featuring: - Norma Gallegos (Freedom Socialist Party [FSP] and Bay Area Radical Women in SF) - Lew Finzel (affiliated with News and Letters in Oakland with an interest in Charles Fourier and sexual utopias) - Audrey Crescenti (Platypus Affiliated Society) [Read More]

Teach-in: Labour and the Left (LSE, 12.5.19)

December 5, 2019 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

Teach-in by Efraim Carlebach of the Platypus Affiliated Society at the LSE SU Platypus Society on 5 December 2019, on the history of the Labour party and its relationship to the Left, and the December 2019 UK general election.

Teach-in: Capital in History (Aarhus, 25.10.19)

October 25, 2019 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

Teach-in at Aarhus by Platypus member Victor Cova. Description: The contemporary left seems weaker than ever. Compared to the uprisings of the 1960s, to say nothing of the world revolution of the 1920s, the events that followed the 2008 crisis (#Occupy, Arab revolutions, Movement of the Squares, Black Lives Matter...) were nothing short of disappointing. Marxism had inspired many of these earlier revolutionary attempts, but now seems hopelessly obscure. Where left-wing movements continue to talk about \“capitalism\“, \“class\“, and \“revolution\“, it is rarely clear what they mean by these words. [Read More]

30 Years of 1989: The end of history? (Corvallis, 10.17.19)

October 17, 2019 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

Panelists: Sarah Henderson - Author of Building Democracy in Contemporary Russia Adam Lunceford - Heart of the Valley Democratic Socialists of America GL Morrison - Oregon Communist Party William Smaldone - Author of European Socialism: A Concise History Description: 1989 is largely remembered as a decisive close to the Cold War contest between communism and capitalism—with the victory of the latter casting a seemingly damning verdict against Marxism as a form of politics. [Read More]

Teach-in: Althussers Marxismus (Wien, 11.10.19)

October 11, 2019 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

Teach-in, veranstaltet von der Platypus Affiliated Society im Café C.I. – Club International in Wien am 11. Oktober 2019. „In den 1980er Jahren verabschiedete sich eine ganze Generation Intellektueller im Zeichen der Postmoderne von jeglicher Utopie. Doch bereits zuvor war die Neue Linke in den 60er und 70er Jahren mit ihrer Rückkehr zu Marx gescheitert. Aus Sicht von Althusser inszenierten die Studenten weltweit 1968 eine „ideologische Revolte”. Sie revolutionierten den kulturellen Überbau, aber nicht die sozialen und politischen Verhältnisse. [Read More]

Sex and the Left (Goldsmiths, 10.10.19)

October 10, 2019 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

On 10 October, 2019, the Platypus Affiliated Society at Goldsmiths University hosted a panel on \‘Sex and the Left\‘. Panelists: - Jeanie Crystal (Artist) - Peter Tatchell (British Human Rights Campaigner, best known for his work with LGBT movements) - Rachel Holmes (Historian and author of Eleanor Marx: A Life, published by Bloomsbury Publishing) - Zack Murrell-Dowson (Researcher into Trans Liberation) What do we mean by a liberated sexuality? What are the bounds of sexual freedom available to us in capitalism? [Read More]

Teach-in: Mexican Democracy in the 21st Century (Santa Cruz, 10.7.19)

October 7, 2019 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

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A teach-in at the University of California Santa Cruz. Tracing the decline of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) in Mexico, the rise of Neoliberalism, and the election of AMLO, this teach-in asks how the failure of the Left in the past century informs Mexican Democracy in the 21st century.

Does Marxism Need a Theory of Power? @ Marx NU Conference (Copenhagen, 05.10.19)

October 5, 2019 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

Panel on \“Power\” at the Marx NU 2019 conference in Copenhagen organised by Selskab for Marxistiske Studier, with an intervention by PAS Aarhus member Victor C. With Michael Rahlwes (The Crisis of Marxism and Marx’s Critique of Politics), Erica Borg & Amedeo Policante (Capital, Biopower and the Anthropocene: Critical Reflections on the Earth Bank of Codes), Victor Sacha Cova (Does Marxism Need a Theory of Power?), followed by questions from the audience. [Read More]