What is the future of socialism?

 June 5, 2018  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

Platypus European Conference 2018 Goldsmiths, University of London Boris Kagarlitsky (Author; Institute of Globalization and Social Movements) Alex Demirovic (University of Frankfurt; Rosa Luxemburg Foundation) Mark Osbourn (Alliance for Workers Liberty) Hillel Ticktin (University of Glasgow; Founding Editor, Critique) Chris Cutrone (School of the Art Institute Chicago; Platypus) Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Description The recent polarisation of politics, in the UK manifested around Corbyn and Brexit, has led some commentators to herald the end of neoliberalism. [Read More]

1917--2017

 April 8, 2017  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

Audio recording of the closing plenary of the 9th annual Platypus Affiliated Society international convention. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Bryan Palmer Leo Panitch Chris Cutrone Description The First World War manifested an economic, social and political crisis of global capitalism, – “imperialism” – which sparked reflection in the mass parties of the Second International on the task of socialist politics. The revisionist dispute, the “crisis of Marxism” in which Lenin, Luxemburg and Trotsky first cut their teeth, shaped their understanding of the unfolding revolution as a necessary expression of self-contradiction within the movement for socialism. [Read More]
1917  Russian Revolution  Rosa Luxemburg 

Marxism in the Age of Trump

 April 7, 2017  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

Recording of the opening plenary of the 9 Annual International Platypus Convention, at the University of Chicago, April 7, 2017. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element An edited transcript was published in Issue #98 of the Platypus Review Panelists Chris Cutrone, Platypus Affiliated Society Greg Lucero, Socialist Party USA Catherine Liu, University of California Irvine Description The long anticipated outcome of the 2016 US Presidential Election — the coronation of Hillary Clinton — was dramatically derailed by the twin “populist” insurgencies of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump. [Read More]
Donald Trump  Marxism 

The Politics Of Critical Theory

Platypus 3rd European Conference, Vienna

 March 14, 2017  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

Audio Recording Part One Your browser does not support the audio element Part Two Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Chris Cutrone, Platypus Affilated Society, Chicago Martin Suchanek, Workers Power, Berlin Haziran Zeller, Berlin Description Recently, the New Left Review published a translated conversation between the critical theorists Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer causing more than a few murmurs and gasps. [Read More]
Critical Theory  Theodor W. Adorno 

The Legacy Of 1917

Platypus 3rd European Conference Vienna 2017

 March 14, 2017  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

What is the legacy of the 1917 Russian Revolution today? A teach-in on problems of Leftist historiography. Presented at the 3 European Conference, Vienna, 2017.

Audio Recording

Speakers

  • Chris Cutrone

  • Richard Rubin

The Crisis Of Neoliberalism

Platypus 3rd European Conference, Vienna 2017

 March 14, 2017  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Chris Cutrone, Platypus Affiliated Society, Chicago John Milios, former Chief economic advisor of SYRIZA, Athens Emmanuel Tomaselli, Funke Redaktion , International Marxist Tendency, Wien Boris Kargalitzky, Institute of Globalisation Studies and Social Movements, Moskau Description The Left has for over a generation – for more than 40 years, since the crisis of 1973 – placed its hopes in the Democratic and Labour Parties to reverse or slow neoliberal capitalism – the move to trans-national trade agreements, the movement of capital and labor, and austerity. [Read More]
Neoliberalism  Crisis 

What is socialism? International social democracy

Platypus 2016 convention opening plenary

 May 31, 2016  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

Opening plenary panel discussion at the 8 annual 2016 international convention of the Platypus Affiliated Society. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Jack Ross (author of The Socialist Party of America: A Complete History) Karl Belin (Pittsburgh Socialist Organizing Committee) Bernard Sampson (CPUSA) Chris Cutrone (Platypus Affiliated Society) Description This panel invites you to reflect on the history of social democracy from a Leftist viewpoint. [Read More]

1848 and Marxism

 October 28, 2015  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

Presented by the Platypus Affiliated Society at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 24 October, 2015. A teach-in on the revolutions of 1848 and the development of Marxism. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Video Recording Recommended preliminary readings Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Revolution 1789-1848, “Conclusion: Towards 1848” Hobsbawm, The Age of Capital 1848-75, “Revolutionary Prelude: The Springtime of Peoples” (pp. [Read More]

What is Political Party For The Left?

 April 22, 2015  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

The closing plenary of our Seventh Annual International Convention. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Chris Cutrone, Platypus Mike Macnair, CPGB (UK) Adolph Reed, Jr. (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Tom Riley, International Bolshevik Tendency (Canada) SAIC Moderated by Tom Willis Description In spite of many different political currents and tendencies the most significant question informing the “Left” today is the issue of “political party. [Read More]
Platypus International Convention 2015 

Empire and social democracy

Summer 2014 teach-in

 June 14, 2014  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

A discussion of the relation of Keynesianism, social-democratic politics and Marxism to the purported decline of the U.S. as global hegemonic state, beginning in the 1970s and continuing in “Left” discourse to the present held on June 14, 2014 at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Teach-in led by Chris Cutrone. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Video Recording Description Taking advantage of the break in our primary reading group schedule, we will hold a discussion of the relation of Keynesianism, social-democratic politics and Marxism to the purported decline of the U. [Read More]
American empire  Empire  Milton Friedman  Michael Harrington  Friedrich Hayek  John Maynard Keynes  Keynesianism  Marxism  Social Democracy  Socialism