Dimitrios Roussopoulos

A panel hosted by the Platypus Affiliated Society in Montreal on January 29, 2015. Sponsored by Concordia Co-op Bookstore, Étudiant-e-s socialistes UQAM and Alternative socialiste. This is part of an international series of panels organized by the Platypus Affiliated Society. For previous panels in this series please see: <marxism-and-anarchism/> Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Julien Daigneault (Alternative socialiste, Étudiant-e-s socialistes UQAM) Catherine Janvier (Revolutionary Communist Party / Parti communiste révolutionnaire) [Read More]

A panel held on April 5, 2014 at the Sixth Annual Platypus International Convention at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Chris Cutrone (Platypus) Samir Gandesha (Simon Fraser University) Nikos Malliaris (Lieux Communs) Dimitrios Roussopoulos (Transnational Institute of Social Ecology) Joseph Schwartz (Temple University) Description No coarser insult, no baser defamation, can be thrown against the workers than the remark, ‘Theoretical controversies are for the intellectuals’ [Read More]

A panel held at the Sixth Annual Platypus International Convention on Saturday, April 5, 2014 at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Dimitrios Roussopoulos (Transnational Institute of Social Ecology) Tarek Shalaby (Revolutionary Socialists (Egypt)) Joshua Stephens (Institute for Anarchist Studies) Description It seems that there are still only two radical ideologies: Anarchism and Marxism. They emerged out of the same crucible - the Industrial Revolution, the unsuccessful revolutions of 1848 and 1871, a weak liberalism, the centralization of state power, the rise of the workers movement, and the promise of socialism. [Read More]