Overview of all pages with the issue #51 - THE PLATYPUS AFFILIATED SOCIETY

Election 2012: An interview with Jill Stein

November 6, 2012 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

ON NOVEMBER 3, 2012, Spencer A. Leonard interviewed 2012 Green Party candidate Jill Stein. What follows is an edited transcript of the interview. Spencer A. Leonard: You have written that, “It is time for the Left to be realistic about how it is going to build the power we need to make the changes we want.”1 In what ways has the Left been unrealistic in the past? How is your candidacy intended to break with that, in howsoever modest a way? [Read More]

Jill Stein Radical Minds /2012 Election

Election 2012: An interview with Luis J. Rodriguez

November 1, 2012 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2012 the radio program *Radical Minds* on WHPK (88.5 FM) broadcast an interview with Luis J. Rodriguez. The interview was conducted by Edward Remus and Spencer A. Leonard of the Platypus Affiliated Society. Rodriguez has forty years of experience as an organizer among diverse communities and is the author of 15 books. He co-founded the Network for Revolutionary Change in October of 2011, and in July of 2012 he joined the Justice Party’s 2012 presidential campaign as Rocky Anderson’s running mate. [Read More]

Luis J. Rodriguez

Election 2012: An interview with Cornel West

November 1, 2012 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

LAST MAY, the Platypus Affiliated Society hosted a conversation on the campus of the University of Chicago between Carl Dix of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA and Cornel West, a veteran member of the Democratic Socialists of America, the co-author of The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto (2012), and Professor of Philosophy and Christian Practice at the Union Theological Seminary in New York. Watson Ladd and Spencer A. [Read More]

Cornel West /2012 Election

Election 2012: An interview with Carl Dix

November 1, 2012 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

LAST MAY, the Platypus Affiliated Society hosted a conversation on the campus of the University of Chicago between Carl Dix of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA and Cornel West, a veteran member of the Democratic Socialists of America, the co-author of The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto (2012), and Professor of Philosophy and Christian Practice at the Union Theological Seminary in New York. Edward Remus circled back to that conversation in a July 3, 2012 interview with Carl Dix on the radio show Radical Minds on WHPK (88. [Read More]

Carl Dix Radical Minds /2012 Election

Class consciousness (from a Marxist perspective) today

November 1, 2012 | The Platypus Affiliated Society • Other languages: Deutsch, Ελληνικά

FOR MARXISTS the division of modern socioeconomic classes is not the _cause_ of the problem of capitalism but rather its effect. Modern classes are different from ancient separations between castes, such as between the clergy or priestly caste, and the noble aristocracy or warrior caste, and the vast majority of people, “commoners,” or those who were ignorant of divinity and without honor, who, for most of history, were peasants living through subsistence agriculture, a mute background of the pageantry of the ancient world. [Read More]