Alan Milchman

One of four panels held by the Platypus Affiliated Society at Left Forum 2014, from May 30 to June 1st, 2014. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Jon Bekken Alan Milchman James Livingston Chaired by Justin Elm Description Capital is not a book about politics, and not even a book about labour: it is a book about unemployment. —Fredric Jameson, Representing Capital: A Reading of Volume One [Read More]

A panel event held at the School for Visual Arts on February 25, 2014. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Alan Akrivos (Socialist Alternative) Dick Howard (Stony Brook) Alan Milchman (Internationalist Perspective) Joseph Schwartz (DSA) Description From the financial crisis and the bank bail-outs to the question of “sovereign debt”; from the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street; from the struggle for a unified European-wide policy to the elections in Greece and Egypt that seem to have threatened so much and promised so little – the need to go beyond mere “protest” has asserted itself: political revolution is in the air, again. [Read More]

A panel held on April 6 2013, at the 2013 Platypus International Convention at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Transcribed in Platypus Review #56 Panelists Elmar Flatschart (EXIT) Jamie Merchant (Permanent Crisis) Alan Milchman (Internationalist Perspective) Moderated by Gregor Baszak Description Perhaps one of the most influential developments in Marxist thought coming from Germany in the last decades has been the emergence of value critique. [Read More]

A workshop on Internationalist Perspective, with Alan Milchman, held on April 5, 2013, at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element At the fifth annual international convention of the Platypus Affiliated Society, speakers from various perspectives were asked to bring their experience of the Left’s recent history to bear on today’s political possibilities and challenges as part of the “Differing Perspectives on the Left” workshop series. [Read More]