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

SPS Ep. 17 - On Chernobyl, the Brexit Party, and Platypus at George Mason University

July 5, 2019 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

On this episode, we chat about the HBO miniseries Chernobyl and Cold War nostalgia. Pamela Nogales discusses the ascendance of the Brexit Party in the UK with James Heartfield, a veteran Marxist and Brexit Party candidate. And Sophia Freeman and Pam Nogales sit down with members at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia to talk about Platypus chapter building & the left in the region. To learn more about the Platypus Summer Reading Group \“30 years of 1989: What was Stalinism in power? [Read More]

The New Deal and American Socialism (Left Forum 2019)

June 30, 2019 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

On June 30, 2019 at the Left Forum at Long Island University Brooklyn in New York City, the Platypus Affiliated Society hosted a panel titled \“The New Deal and American Socialism\“. Description: The New Deal is widely associated with socialism. This association holds true not only within the popular imagination shared across many sections of American society, but also within the historical imagination of the contemporary Left. This panel will consider the New Deal as it appeared to organized political tendencies that struggled for socialism during and after the 1930s. [Read More]

Beyond Sect or Movement: What is a Political Center? (Left Forum 2019)

June 30, 2019 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

On June 30, 2019 at the Left Forum at Long Island University Brooklyn in New York City, the Platypus Affiliated Society hosted a panel titled \“Beyond Sect or Movement: What is a Political Center?\” Description: In his 1973 essay, \“Anatomy of the Micro-Sect,\” Hal Draper gives a definition of a party as opposed to a ‘movement’ or the ‘sects’ that seemed to dominate the Left of his time: A > sect presents itself as the embodiment of the socialist movement, > though it is a membership organization whose boundary is set more or > less rigidly by the points in its political program rather than by its > relation to the social struggle. [Read More]

Platypus at the 2019 Left Forum

June 21, 2019 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

{.wp-image-32217} This year Platypus will participate in Left Forum at Long Island University Brooklyn in New York City, hosting two hosting two panels titled “The New Deal and American Socialism” and “Beyond Sect or Movement: What is a Political Center?” Visit leftforum.org for more details and registration. [7-12-2019]: Recordings of each event have been added below. Beyond Sect or Movement: What is a Political Center? Sunday, June 30th 10:00 a. [Read More]

Chris Cutrone interview with Symptomatic Redness, pt. 3/3

June 18, 2019 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

Note: there is a silent gap in the first 7 minutes of the audio. Former president of Platypus Chris Cutrone is interviewed on the Symptomatic Redness podcast with host Derick Varn, and guest host Lexi Kay of Swampside Chats. Chris took on a variety of relatively hostile questions for a few hours. This is part three and is available to the public. Derick Varn is a former member of the Platypus Affiliated Society. [Read More]

Aarhus Summer 2019 Reading Group: 30 years of 1989: What was Stalinism in power?

June 15, 2019 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

{.wp-image-29471} Saturdays 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. Dome of Visions Inge Lehmanns Gade 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark (Map) • required / + recommended reading recommended book: Isaac Deutscher, Marxism, Wars and Revolutions: Essays from Four Decades (Verso, 1984) [ * essays included in book] recommended background reading: Spartacist League, Genesis of Pabloism (1972) Week 1. The revolution betrayed | June 22, 2019 • Leon Trotsky, The Revolution Betrayed: What is the Soviet Union and Where is it Going? [Read More]

Chris Cutrone interview with Symptomatic Redness, pt. 2/3

June 11, 2019 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

Former president of Platypus Chris Cutrone is interviewed on the Symptomatic Redness podcast with host Derick Varn, and guest host Lexi Kay of Swampside Chats. Chris took on a variety of relatively hostile questions for a few hours and this is second part of the conversation. It is available in full for Zero Books Patrons only. Derick Varn is a former member of the Platypus Affiliated Society.

Teach-in: Trans Liberation (Chicago)

June 4, 2019 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

A teach-in on trans liberation held by David Faes at Northwestern University on June 4th, 2019. Description The socialist Left, which historically stood for increasing the scope of freedom, has historically shifted positions on issues of gender and sexuality. Recently, there has been some conflict over the trans identity, how it should be taken up by the Left if at all. What do such controversies tell us about the politics of sexual freedom and the history of the Left, moving forward? [Read More]

Chris Cutrone interview with Symptomatic Redness, pt. 1/3

June 2, 2019 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

Chris Cutrone is interviewed on the Symptomatic Redness podcast with host Derick Varn, and guest host Lexi Kay of Swampside Chats. Chris took on a variety of relatively hostile questions for a few hours. This is part one and is available to the public. Derick Varn is a former member of the Platypus Affiliated Society.

Teach-in: Democracy and class struggle from the ancient to the modern world (Athens)

June 1, 2019 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

A teach-in on democracy hosted by Richard Rubin of the Platypus Affiliated Society in Athens, Greece on June 1, 2019.