Franklin Dmitryev

This moderated panel discussion on the relationship between Marxism and Anarchism today took place at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) on March 19 2014. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Franklin Dmitryev (News & Letters) Lou Downey (Revolutionary Communist Party USA) Wayne Price 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]

A moderated panel discussion hosted by the Platypus Affiliated Society on the interrelation of capital, history and ecology, held at Loyola University on November 19, 2013. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Franklin Dmitryev (News and Letters) Author of “Ecosocialism and Marx’s Humanism” Fred Magdoff (University of Vermont) Author of “What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism” Steven Vogel (Denison University) Author of “Against Nature: The Concept of Nature in Critical Theory” [Read More]

A workshop on News and Letters with Franklin Dmitryev held on March 30, 2012. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element At the fourth 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]