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[archiveorg freedomintheanthropocene2019platypusaffiliatedsociety width=640 height=480 frameborder=0 webkitallowfullscreen=true mozallowfullscreen=true] A moderated panel discussion hosted by the Platypus Affiliated Society on the interrelation of capital, history, and ecology. Panelists: Ashik Siddique, Democratic Socialists of America Ethan Wright, Zero Hour Mike Golash, Progressive Labor Party Wyatt Verlen, Platypus Affiliated Society Description: The Dutch atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen has characterized the period marked by the start of the industrial revolution in the 18th Century to the present as a new geological epoch “the Anthropocene”. [Read More]

[archiveorg doesmarxismevenmatterplatypusfairfax2019 width=640 height=480 frameborder=0 webkitallowfullscreen=true mozallowfullscreen=true] An introductory workshop by member Ethan Linehan on the development of freedom in human history from the Platypus perspective. In the mid-19th century, Marx and Engels famously observed that a \“spectre was haunting Europe: the spectre of Communism\“. 170 years later, it is Marxism itself that haunts us, while capitalism remains. What does it mean that Marx and Marxism still appeal, while political movements for socialism are weak or non-existent? [Read More]