A Platypus-wide teach-in on the CPGB’s campaign against Lukács and its stakes for Platypus as a project.
Audio Recording
Description
Held on Saturday January 11 1-4PM at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago 112 S. Michigan Ave. room 920 while simultaneously broadcast internationally via Livestream.
The preparatory readings for this event are as follows and can be found at:
- Mike Macnair, “The philosophy trap” 11/21/13
http://www.cpgb.org.uk/home/weekly-worker/987/lukács-the-philosophy-trap
- Chris Cutrone, “Defending Marxist Hegelianism against a Marxist critique” 8/11/11
- György Lukács, Original Preface (1922) to History and Class Consciousness (1923)
http://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/history/preface-1922.htm
CPGB contra Lukács
Communist Party of Great Britain (Provisional Central Committee) contra Georg Lukács
Paul Demarty, Chris Cutrone, Lawrence Parker
http://chriscutrone.platypus1917.org/?p=1716
Originally published in Weekly Worker January 24 – March 14, 2013. PDF:
http://chriscutrone.platypus1917.org/file/readings/cpgbcontralukacs031513.pdf
articles: - Paul Demarty, “The antinomies of Georg Lukács” 1/24/13 - Chris Cutrone, “Regression” 1/31/13 - Paul Demarty, “Dummy” 2/21/13 - Chris Cutrone, “Nota bene” 2/28/13 - Paul Demarty, “Bacon” 3/7/13 - Lawrence Parker, “Lukács reloaded” 3/7/13 - Chris Cutrone, “Unreloaded” 3/14/13
http://chriscutrone.platypus1917.org/?p=1716
Supplemental:
Chris Cutrone, “Gillian Rose’s ‘Hegelian’ critique of Marxism” 3/1/10