Revolution without Marx?

Rousseau and his followers for the Left, Left Forum 2013

A panel discussion held at Left Forum 2013, at Pace University, on June 9, 2013. Video Recording Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element This panel was transcripted in Platypus Review #61 Speakers Chris Cutrone Spencer A. Leonard Sunit Singh Description Bourgeois society came into full recognition with Rousseau, who in the Discourse on the Origin of Inequality and On the Social Contract, opened its radical critique. [Read More]

In Reflection Upon Fifty Issues

A Presentation at the Platypus Review Issue No. 50 Launch Party

In October, the Platypus Review published it’s fiftieth issue. In celebration of this landmark occasion, at the issue No. 50 release party held in New York City on November 15, 2012, an international video conference with the members of the current and past editorial staff of the Platypus Review was held, including speakers involved with the Platypus Review from New York City and Chicago, USA, London, UK, Thessaloniki, Greece, Maastricht, the Netherlands, Frankfurt, Germany, and Graz, Austria. [Read More]

The Imperialism Question and the Twentieth Century

A panel discussion event held on May 28, 2010, at the 2010 Platypus International Convention held at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Atiya Khan Spencer A. Leonard Sunit Singh Description To many on the Left today, opposition to imperialism has become a political litmus test of sorts, but historically anti-imperialism was by no means an exclusively leftist political project whether we are speaking of right-wing anti-colonialism in the metropole or in the colonies. [Read More]