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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.

[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]

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]