Platypus primary Marxist reading group Summer 2013: Late capitalism


Chicago, New York

Saturdays 1–4PM CST

School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC)

112 S. Michigan Ave. room 920

Sundays 2–5PM EST

New School University

Eugene Lang College

65 W. 11th St. room 258

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Summer 2013

Late capitalism

required / * recommended reading

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Week 1. | Jun. 22–23, 2013

• Moishe Postone, “Contemporary historical transformations: Mandel and Bell” (1999)

• Daniel Bell, “Modernism and capitalism” (Foreword to The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism, 1978)

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Week 2. | Jun. 29–30, 2013

• Ernest Mandel, Late Capitalism (1972) pp. 8-183

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Week 3. | Jul. 6–7, 2013

Mandel, Late Capitalism pp. 184-342

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Week 4. | Jul. 13–14, 2013

Mandel, Late Capitalism pp. 343-473

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Week 5. | Jul. 20–21, 2013

Mandel, Late Capitalism pp. 474-590