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notes on Adorno in 1968-69
Notes on Trotsky and Luxemburg on 1917--19
notes on Lenin, "Left-Wing" Communism an Infantile Disorder (1920)
notes on Lenin, The State and Revolution (1917)
Notes on Luxemburg's The Mass Strike, the Political Party and the Trade Unions (1906)
notes on Lenin, What is to be done?---Platypus "neo-Leninism?"
notes on Feb. 15 reading Korsch "Marxism and Philosophy" (1923)
note on recent readings: Slaughter, Nettl, Luxemburg
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notes on Adorno in 1968-69
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Going it alone: Christopher Hitchens and the death of the Left
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Trotsky on art and politics: "with a sword or at least a whip in hand"
notes on Lenin, What is to be done?---Platypus "neo-Leninism?"
note on recent readings: Slaughter, Nettl, Luxemburg
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A Prelude to the History of the Left
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Radical Interpretations of the Present Crisis, NYC
Global Rut
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Capital in History
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My dialogue with Kliman on Chicago Political Workshop, Principia Dialectica and Marxist Humanism
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note on recent readings: Slaughter, Nettl, Luxemburg
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The Politics Of Critical Theory
Platypus Nashville Reading Group - Fall 2016
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Lukács's abyss
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The Politics of Critical Theory
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What is Critique?
Book review: Karl Korsch, Marxism and Philosophy
notes to Rousseau
My dialogue with Kliman on Chicago Political Workshop, Principia Dialectica and Marxist Humanism
notes on Adorno in 1968-69
Symptomology
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notes on Feb. 15 reading Korsch "Marxism and Philosophy" (1923)
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Disappearances
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Left behind
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Obama: three comparisons: MLK, JFK, FDR
Capital in history
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The dead Left: Trotskyism
Requiem for the 60s
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Radical Interpretations of the Present Crisis
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Responses to the Global Economic Downturn
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Crisis of the Left: New York City
notes on Adorno in 1968-69
Symptomology
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notes on Feb. 15 reading Korsch "Marxism and Philosophy" (1923)
Trotsky on "degeneration" and "entire generations passing into discard" (1933)
Living Marxism
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notes on Lenin, "Left-Wing" Communism an Infantile Disorder (1920)
my letter to The Nation on "Re-Imagining Socialism"
notes on Lenin, The State and Revolution (1917)
Notes on Luxemburg's The Mass Strike, the Political Party and the Trade Unions (1906)
excerpt from Trotsky
notes on Lukács
notes on Spartacists on Lenin and the vanguard party
Trotsky on art and politics: "with a sword or at least a whip in hand"
notes on Lenin, What is to be done?---Platypus "neo-Leninism?"
notes on Feb. 15 reading Korsch "Marxism and Philosophy" (1923)
2006 interview with Juliet Mitchell
note on recent readings: Slaughter, Nettl, Luxemburg
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Platypus Santa Cruz Marxist Reading Group Summer 2017
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Summer 2017 readings: Lenin and the 1917 Russian Revolution
Platypus Santa Cruz Primary Marxist Reading Group Winter-Spring 2017
Platypus primary Marxist Reading Group Winter -- Spring 2017
Summer 2016 readings: From the 1st to the 2nd International
Platypus primary Marxist Reading Group Winter -- Spring 2016
Berlin Summer 2015 Reading Group: Radical Bourgeois Philosophy
Summer 2015: From the 2nd to the 3rd International
Platypus primary Marxist readings: Anti-black racism in the U.S.
Platypus primary Marxist Reading Group Winter -- Spring 2015
Platypus primary Marxist reading group Summer and Fall/Autumn 2014 -- Winter 2015
Chicago Gender and Sexuality Reading Group Spring 2014
Platypus primary Marxist reading group Summer and Fall/Autumn 2013 -- Winter 2014
Platypus primary Marxist reading group Summer 2013: art and politics
Platypus primary Marxist reading group Summer 2013: Late capitalism
Platypus Primary Marxist Reading Group Winter -- Spring 2013
Platypus Primary Marxist Reading Group Summer and Fall/Autumn 2012 -- Winter 2013
Platypus summer 2012: Democracy and Marxism
Platypus introduction to the history of Marxism readings
Platypus primary Marxist reading group Fall/Autumn 2010 -- Winter 2011
Introduction to Platypus readings
Chicago North Side Reading Group Winter - Spring 2009
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1917
Marx@200: The point is to change the world (Knoxville, 3.27.19)
Revolutionary politics and thought
Democracy and The Left
On Anarchism and Marxism
1776 in world history
The 3 Rs: Reform, Revolution and "Resistance", London
The 3 Rs: Reform, Revolution, and Resistance, NYC
The 3 Rs: Reform, Revolution, and Resistance, Boston
The 3 Rs: Reform, Revolution, and Resistance, Dalhousie
A cry of protest before accommodation?
Egypt, or, history's invidious comparisons
Film Review: _Che_
Notes on Trotsky and Luxemburg on 1917--19
my letter to The Nation on "Re-Imagining Socialism"
excerpt from Trotsky
notes on Feb. 15 reading Korsch "Marxism and Philosophy" (1923)
note on recent readings: Slaughter, Nettl, Luxemburg
Red-baiting and ideology
A polemic on protest
Interview: Ernesto Laclau
The 3 Rs: Reform, Revolution, and "Resistance"
The Left is dead! Long live the Left!
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Radical Ideology Today
Lenin and the Marxist Left after #Occupy
Changes in Art and Society
Art, Culture, and Politics
Rethinking the New Left (Chicago, 11/9/10)
Is Marx back?
The poverty of Pakistan's politics (PPP)
notes on Lenin, "Left-Wing" Communism an Infantile Disorder (1920)
my letter to The Nation on "Re-Imagining Socialism"
notes on Lenin, What is to be done?---Platypus "neo-Leninism?"
note on recent readings: Slaughter, Nettl, Luxemburg
Trotsky on "degeneration" and "entire generations passing into discard" (1933)
Obama and Clinton
Red-baiting and ideology
Capital in history
Five questions to the student Left
Iraq and the election
Ba'athism and the history of the Left in Iraq
Interview: Ernesto Laclau
Review: "La Commune"
Taking issue with identity
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Why I Joined Platypus
Third Parties and the Left: Problems and Prospects
Responses to the Global Economic Downturn
1873--1973: The century of Marxism
Changes in Art and Society
CrimethInc
Defining Democracy: The Labor Movement and #Occupy
G8 and NATO: Rulers, Domination, and Emancipation
International Marxist Tendency
Lenin and the Marxist Left after #Occupy
Occupy Chicago
Phase II
Revolutionary Communist Party (Canada) - Parti communiste revolutionnaire
The 90s and 2000's Left Today
Whence Anarchism?
Communist Party of Great Britain
Inclusive Democracy Collective
International Bolshevik Tendency
News and Letters
The League of Revolutionaries For A New America
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The call to advent
notes to Constant and Kant (1)
notes to Rousseau
notes on Adorno in 1968-69
notes on Adorno
notes on Trotsky and Trotskyism
Notes on Trotsky and Luxemburg on 1917--19
Notes on Lukács, "Standpoint of the Proletariat"
notes on Lenin, "Left-Wing" Communism an Infantile Disorder (1920)
notes on Lenin, The State and Revolution (1917)
Notes on Luxemburg's The Mass Strike, the Political Party and the Trade Unions (1906)
excerpt from Trotsky
notes on Lukács
notes on Spartacists on Lenin and the vanguard party
Trotsky on art and politics: "with a sword or at least a whip in hand"
notes on Lenin, What is to be done?---Platypus "neo-Leninism?"
notes on Feb. 15 reading Korsch "Marxism and Philosophy" (1923)
Trotsky on "degeneration" and "entire generations passing into discard" (1933)
Heidegger's conservative-reactionary misunderstanding of freedom
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Marxism and Feminism
50 years of 1968
Left Exit or No Brexit?
Exit Left or no Brexit?
What is political party for Marxism?
Is there a need for Left Unity?
Platypus Euroconference: CPGB Workshop
The Politics of Work, London
Why still read Lukács?
CPGB contra Lukács
What is imperialism? (What now?)
Conversations on the Left
What is Imperialism? (What Now?)
2013 Platypus International Convention Opening Plenary: The Left in Power?
Lenin and the Marxist Left after #Occupy
Splits, regroupments, war, and revolution in Germany, 1914--1920
Communist Party of Great Britain
Platypus Discussion of Mike Macnair's Critique
The Legacy of Trotskyism
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1917
György Lukács and his theory of "Reification"
Why still read Lukács?
On becoming things
Lukács's abyss
The politics of Critical Theory
Subject, class, and the Hegelian legacy in critical social theory
Lukács' Marxism
Justice and the Good Life in Lukács' History and Class Consciousness
Gillian Rose's 'Hegelian' critique of Marxism
Rejoinder to David Black
Book review: Karl Korsch, Marxism and Philosophy
notes on Adorno in 1968-69
Notes on Lukács, "Standpoint of the Proletariat"
notes on Lukács
Capital in history
"Let the dead bury the dead!"
Walter Benjamin
The Left is dead! Long live the Left!
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Not just snowflakes, fighting the culture wars in the age of Trump
The Millennial Left is dead
A Year, a Month, and a Day
What is the Occupy Movement?
The Day After: What is the #Occupy Movement? NYC III
The 3 Rs: Reform, Revolution, and Resistance, NYC
The occupation of art's labor
Defining Democracy: The Labor Movement and #Occupy
Lenin and the Marxist Left after #Occupy
Whence Anarchism?
2011, 1999, 1968 -- and 2012? The history of the Left and #Occupy
The Significance of Art in the Occupy Movement
What is the #Occupy Movement? London I
The movement as an end-in-itself?
What is the #Occupy Movement? NYC II
The Occupy movement, a renascent Left, and Marxism today
What is the #Occupy Movement?
Whither Marxism?
What is the #Occupy Movement? NYC I
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A Prelude to the History of the Left
Trotskyism in Greece
CPGB contra Lukács
What is Trotskyism?
Trotsky and Trotskyism, Lecture 7
Trotsky and Trotskyism, Lecture 6
Trotsky and Trotskyism, Lecture 5
Trotsky and Trotskyism, Lecture 4
Trotsky and Trotskyism, Lecture 3
Trotsky and Trotskyism, Lecture 2
Trotsky and Trotskyism, Lecture 1
1873--1973: The century of Marxism
Learning from the Communist Movement of the 20th century
The legacy of Trotskyism
The Legacy of Trotskyism
Trotsky's Marxism
Trotsky on art and politics: "with a sword or at least a whip in hand"
Trotsky on "degeneration" and "entire generations passing into discard" (1933)
The dead Left: Trotskyism
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Critical authoritarianism
Horkheimer in 1943 on party and class
Lenin and the Marxist Left after #Occupy
Book review: Karl Korsch, Marxism and Philosophy
notes on Adorno in 1968-69
notes on Adorno
Symptomology
notes on Trotsky and Trotskyism
notes on Lenin, "Left-Wing" Communism an Infantile Disorder (1920)
my letter to The Nation on "Re-Imagining Socialism"
Trotsky on art and politics: "with a sword or at least a whip in hand"
notes on Feb. 15 reading Korsch "Marxism and Philosophy" (1923)
2006 interview with Juliet Mitchell
To the victor, the spoils
Requiem for the 60s
Jeff Wall: The Return of the Modern? (a Review)
Who Needs the Left?
The Left is dead! Long live the Left!
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2013 Platypus International Convention: President's Report
"Program" and "Utopia"
Capital, History and Environmental Politics
Differing Perspectives on the Left
International Marxist Tendency (Canada)
Marx and "Wertkritik"
Revolutionary Communist Party (US)
SYRIZA (Greece)
Solidarity Halifax (Canada)
The Labor Left After Politics and After Utopia
What is Imperialism? (What Now?)
2013 Platypus International Convention Opening Plenary: The Left in Power?
EXIT! (Germany)
Internationalist Perspective (US)
New Compass and Demokratisk Alternativ (Norway)
Party for Socialism and Liberation (US)
Québec solidaire (Canada)
The Green Party (US)
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The Millennial Left is dead
Black politics in the age of Obama
Black Politics in the Age of Obama
Sexual Freedom and the History of the Left
The Future of the Status Quo
Lessons from the election
Book Review: Adolph Reed Jr. and Kenneth W. Warren, eds., _Renewing Black Intellectual History_
The American Left and the "Black Question:"
Labor struggles today
Progress or regress?
Symptomology
Progress or Regress?
Obama and Clinton
Obama: three comparisons: MLK, JFK, FDR
Iraq and the election
Obama: Progress in regress
The Hundred Days campaign: the present and future of SDS
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Democracy and the Left
What is the European Union and should we be against it?
Left Exit or No Brexit?
Democracy and the Left
Revolutionary politics and thought
Democracy and The Left
Democracy and the Left, Chicago,
Democracy and the Left, Halifax,
"These petrified relations must be forced to dance"
Defining Democracy: The Labor Movement and #Occupy
The Left and Prospects for Democracy in the Middle East: Iraq
The poverty of Pakistan's politics (PPP)
Remarks on Chris Cutrone's 'Iraq and the election: the fog of 'anti-war' politics'
Red-baiting and ideology
Iraq and the election
The Hundred Days campaign: the present and future of SDS
Remember our real Iranian friends
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Women’s March
2001
A reply to Stephan Grigat
To know the worst
Arab Spring into Winter?
Egypt, or, history's invidious comparisons
Lessons from the election
Forging a Left in Iran
The Green Movement and the Left
30 years of the Islamic Revolution in Iran
Teach-in: The Failure of the Islamic Revolution
Against the status quo
30 years of the Islamic Revolution in Iran
Iraq and the election
Persepolis and the personal consequences of failure
Review: Iran "Insights into its Religion, Politics, and Power"
Remember our real Iranian friends
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2001
Horkheimer in 1943 on party and class
Book Review: Robert B. Pippin, *After the Beautiful: Hegel and the Philosophy of Pictorial Modernism*
Revolution without Marx?
Religion and the Left, Halifax
Marx at the margins
History of Humanity
The History of Humanity
After Hegel
On the Possibility of What Isn't
Praxis, theory, and the unmakeable
Gillian Rose's 'Hegelian' critique of Marxism
Book Review: Susan Buck-Morss's *Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History*
notes on Lukács
Capital in history
The Left is dead! Long live the Left!
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1917
Ends of philosophy
Book Review: Karl Korsch, Marxismus und Philosophie
A destroyer of vulgar-Marxism
The politics of Critical Theory
Lenin's liberalism
Gillian Rose's 'Hegelian' critique of Marxism
Rejoinder to David Black
Book review: Karl Korsch, Marxism and Philosophy
notes on Adorno in 1968-69
notes on Lukács
notes on Lenin, What is to be done?---Platypus "neo-Leninism?"
notes on Feb. 15 reading Korsch "Marxism and Philosophy" (1923)
University of Chicago Marxist reading group Winter-Spring 2009
Capital in history
The Left is dead! Long live the Left!
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Notes on philosophy
2001
The New Left zombie is dead! Long live Occupy!
Black nationalism and the legacy of Malcolm X
The Marxist turn
Rethinking the New Left
Rethinking the New Left (Chicago, 11/9/10)
New Left Regress
Disappearances
Adorno's Leninism
What are intellectuals good for?
Rosa Luxemburg's corpse
Book review: Karl Korsch, Marxism and Philosophy
Film review: The Baader-Meinhof Complex
Symptomology
The Left is dead! Long live the Left!
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Why I wish Hillary had won
The Millennial Left is dead
Slavoj Žižek, Donald Trump, and the Left
Not your grandfather's anti-fascism
The call to advent
Antifascism in the Age of Trump
Marxism in the Age of Trump
Marxism in the Age of Trump
Freedom from progress
The ironies of Trump's education policy
Rhetoric and Division of Left and Right in the Trump Era
Anti-Trumpism: what does it mean for the Left?
Paralysis of will
Why not Trump?
Who's afraid of Donald Trump?
ideology 15
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Revolutionary politics and thought
Radical Ideology Today
Forging a Left in Iran
Book review: Karl Korsch, Marxism and Philosophy
my letter to The Nation on "Re-Imagining Socialism"
excerpt from Trotsky
notes on Feb. 15 reading Korsch "Marxism and Philosophy" (1923)
Red-baiting and ideology
Finance capital
Five questions to the student Left
The Hundred Days campaign: the present and future of SDS
Walter Benjamin
Ba'athism and the history of the Left in Iraq
Process point
The Left is dead! Long live the Left!
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The struggle for a Catalan republic
The struggle for a Catalan Republic
What is the European Union and should we be against it?
Left Exit or No Brexit?
Québec and the future of the Canadian left
Something better than the nation?
1914 in the history of Marxism
Kashmir, socialists, and the right to self-determination
On nationalism
Why is it that nobody understands me, yet everybody likes me?
Rosa Luxemburg's legacy
An Unmet Challenge
The role of socialists in the civil war in Sri Lanka
Ba'athism and the history of the Left in Iraq
Remember our real Iranian friends
reflections 15
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The sport of protest
Resurrecting the 30s
Symptomology
Why the U.S. stimulus package is bound to fail
The necessity of leadership
A polemic on protest
Five questions to the student Left
Reenacting '68
Violence at the RNC
On the corner
Cracking the looking-glass
Kenya: Move over grandpa
On the election violence in Kenya
Protest and regression
Yesterday, I was an anarchist
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1933
Critical authoritarianism
Art And The Commodity Form, London
Horkheimer in 1943 on party and class
Art, Culture, and Politics
Egypt, or, history's invidious comparisons
The relevance of critical theory to art today
The Marxist hypothesis
notes on Adorno in 1968-69
notes on Lukács
Capital in history
To the victor, the spoils
"Let the dead bury the dead!"
Walter Benjamin
The Left is dead! Long live the Left!
1960s 14
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How the Counter-Culture shaped the Culture of Unfreedom
A Prelude to the History of the Left
Book Chat with Richard Wolin, author of The Wind from the East
The politics of Critical Theory
Rethinking the New Left (Chicago, 11/9/10)
'You don't need a Marxist to know which way the wind blows'
New Left Regress
Adorno's Leninism
2006 interview with Juliet Mitchell
University of Chicago, SAIC, MIT, NYU reading group starts January 11
Capital in history
Obama: Progress in regress
Requiem for the 60s
Jeff Wall: The Return of the Modern? (a Review)
exchanges 14
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Lenin's politics
Politics of the contemporary student Left
What is a movement?
Left behind
Progress or regress?
Resurrecting the 30s
Remarks on Chris Cutrone's 'Iraq and the election: the fog of 'anti-war' politics'
Afghanistan, internationalism and the Left
Red-baiting and ideology
Beyond the Politics of Anti-Gentrification
Re-thinking the Crisis of Capital in Light of the Crisis of the Left
Remember the future!
"Let the dead bury the dead!"
Organization, political action, history, and consciousness
international-bolshevik-tendency 14
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The death of Social Democracy
Is there a need for Left Unity?
Platypus Euroconference: IBT Workshop
Freedom in the Anthropocene, Toronto
Conversations on the Left
Third Parties and the Left: Problems and Prospects
Lenin and the Marxist Left after #Occupy
International Bolshevik Tendency
What is the #Occupy Movement? London I
The legacy of Trotskyism
The Marxist turn
Trotsky's Marxism
The Legacy of Trotskyism
Trotsky's Marxism
liberalism 14
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Slavoj Žižek, Donald Trump, and the Left
Back to Herbert Spencer!
Horkheimer in 1943 on party and class
The Sandernistas
Marx's liberalism?
An exposé of classic liberalism?
Liberalism and Marx
Interview with Domenico Losurdo on Liberalism for The Platypus Review
Lenin's politics
History of Humanity
Lenin's liberalism
Iraq and the election
The Hundred Days campaign: the present and future of SDS
The Left is dead! Long live the Left!
platypus 14
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What does it mean to say that Platypus is the psychoanalyst of the Left?
Platypus Nashville Reading Group - Fall 2016
What is Platypus Doing?
Democratic Socialists of America
Conversations on the Left
What is Imperialism? (What Now?)
Why I Joined Platypus
The 90s and 2000's Left Today
Platypus Discussion of Mike Macnair's Critique
Badiou and Post-Maoism
Ideology and the Student Left
The Platypus Synthesis
Trotsky on art and politics: "with a sword or at least a whip in hand"
notes on Feb. 15 reading Korsch "Marxism and Philosophy" (1923)
race 14
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Black Politics and the American Left
Marxism through the back door
Black Politics and State Violence: A Panel Discussion - UCSC
Black Politics and State Violence: A Panel Discussion - University of Chicago
The American Left And The "Black Question"
Platypus NYC Black Politics And State Violence
Black nationalism and the legacy of Malcolm X
Immigration and the Left
Book Review: Adolph Reed Jr. and Kenneth W. Warren, eds., _Renewing Black Intellectual History_
Book Review: Frantz Fanon, *Black Skin, White Masks*
An Unmet Challenge
Obama: Progress in regress
Taking issue with identity
"Race" in social-historical and political context
racism 14
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Anti-fascism in the age of Trump
No Nazis on Rocky Top?
Black Politics and the American Left
Marxism through the back door
Black Politics and State Violence: A Panel Discussion - UCSC
Black Politics and State Violence: A Panel Discussion - University of Chicago
Platypus NYC Black Politics And State Violence
Immigration and the Left
"A Black Man Speaks of Marx"
The American Left and the "Black Question:"
Book Review: Frantz Fanon, *Black Skin, White Masks*
Book Review: Michael Rudolph West. *The Education of Booker T. Washington: American Democracy and the Idea of Race Relations*
Five questions to the student Left
Ba'athism and the history of the Left in Iraq
imperialism 13
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Back to Herbert Spencer!
1914 in the history of Marxism
Internationalism fails
What is imperialism? (What now?)
Imperialism: What is it, why should we be against it?
The Imperialism Question and the Twentieth Century
Is Marx back?
Remarks on Chris Cutrone's 'Iraq and the election: the fog of 'anti-war' politics'
Five questions to the student Left
Iraq and the election
Ba'athism and the history of the Left in Iraq
The Left is dead! Long live the Left!
"Imperialism"
labor 13
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Labor And The State
The politics of work
The Politics of Work
The Labor Left After Politics and After Utopia
Defining Democracy: The Labor Movement and #Occupy
Book Review: Robert Fitch, _Solidarity for Sale: How Corruption Destroyed the Labor Movement and Undermined America's Promise_
Book Review: Randi Storch. *Red Chicago: American Communism at its Grassroots, 1928-35*.
Labor struggles today
Left behind
The necessity of leadership
To the victor, the spoils
Yesterday, I was an anarchist
Interview: Ernesto Laclau
organization 13
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Revolutionary politics and thought
notes on Lenin, What is to be done?---Platypus "neo-Leninism?"
note on recent readings: Slaughter, Nettl, Luxemburg
Jan 25 Discussion, Cliff Slaughter, "What is Revolutionary Leadership"
Red-baiting and ideology
The necessity of leadership
Finance capital
Five questions to the student Left
The Hundred Days campaign: the present and future of SDS
Organization, political action, history, and consciousness
Who Needs the Left?
Process point
Review: "La Commune"
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"A new world racing towards us"
The 90s and 2000's Left Today
The Marxist turn
Rethinking the New Left
Rethinking the New Left (Chicago, 11/9/10)
'You don't need a Marxist to know which way the wind blows'
You Don't Need to be a Marxist to Know Which Way the Wind Blows
Politics of the contemporary student Left
Politics of the Contemporary Student Left
What is a Movement?
Immigrants Rights and the Labor Movement
Review: Introducing SDS, Columbia Revolt, 1969
"Imperialism"
1917 12
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A Prelude to the History of the Left
1917--2017
Lessons of the Russian Revolution
1917--2017
1917--2017
Democracy and The Left
Lenin's legacy today
Egypt, or, history's invidious comparisons
Is the funeral for the wrong corpse?
Notes on Trotsky and Luxemburg on 1917--19
Dialectics of Defeat
History of the Left
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Is there a need for Left Unity?
Platypus Euroconference: CPGB Workshop
The Politics of Work, London
Why still read Lukács?
Conversations on the Left
What is Imperialism? (What Now?)
2013 Platypus International Convention Opening Plenary: The Left in Power?
Lenin and the Marxist Left after #Occupy
Communist Party of Great Britain
Platypus Discussion of Mike Macnair's Critique
CPGB Teach-In at Platypus International Convention 2011
The Legacy of Trotskyism
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"Fighting instead of managing capitalism"
Something better than the nation?
Crisis of the eurozone and the Left
Responses to the Global Economic Downturn
Antisemitism and the Left
The Contemporary German and American Lefts
German psycho
On nationalism
Why is it that nobody understands me, yet everybody likes me?
Rosa Luxemburg's legacy
Rosa Luxemburg's corpse
Film review: The Baader-Meinhof Complex
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Communist League of Tampa
Communist Party USA (CPUSA)
GSOC -- UAW
Institute of Social Ecology
Recomposition
Socialist Party, USA (SPUSA)
Can there be a working class culture and experience?
Democracy and the Left
Electoral Politics And The Left
Neoliberalism and its Discontents
The American Left And The "Black Question"
What is Political Party For The Left?
stalinism 12
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A Prelude to the History of the Left
50 years of 1968
2001
Remembrance of things past
1873--1973: The century of Marxism
Platypus 2011 President's report
The Legacy of Trotskyism
The Maoist insurgency in India: End of the road for Indian Stalinism?
Is the funeral for the wrong corpse?
An Unmet Challenge
Red-baiting and ideology
The Left is dead! Long live the Left!
feminism 11
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Women’s March
Marxism and Feminism
Women: the Longest Revolution?
Women: The Longest Revolution (Chicago)
Women: the Longest Revolution (Frankfurt)
Women: The Longest Revolution at Loyola University Chicago
Women: The longest Revolution?
Gender and the new man
Emancipation in the heart of darkness
2006 interview with Juliet Mitchell
Interview: Ernesto Laclau
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Marxism and Feminism
Is there a need for Left Unity?
Platypus Euroconference: IBT Workshop
Conversations on the Left
Third Parties and the Left: Problems and Prospects
Lenin and the Marxist Left after #Occupy
International Bolshevik Tendency
What is the #Occupy Movement? London I
The Marxist turn
The Legacy of Trotskyism
Trotsky's Marxism
iraq 11
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What is imperialism? (What now?)
10 years after the Iraq War
Imperialism: What is it, why should we be against it?
The Left and Prospects for Democracy in the Middle East: Iraq
Going it alone: Christopher Hitchens and the death of the Left
Remarks on Chris Cutrone's 'Iraq and the election: the fog of 'anti-war' politics'
Iraq and the election
Ba'athism and the history of the Left in Iraq
The Left is dead! Long live the Left!
Tariq Ali Interviewed by Chris Cutrone
"Imperialism"
ows 11
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The Day After: What is the #Occupy Movement? NYC III
The 3 Rs: Reform, Revolution, and Resistance, NYC
The New Left zombie is dead! Long live Occupy!
Defining Democracy: The Labor Movement and #Occupy
Lenin and the Marxist Left after #Occupy
Whence Anarchism?
2011, 1999, 1968 -- and 2012? The history of the Left and #Occupy
The Environmentalism of Occupy
What is the #Occupy Movement? London I
What is the #Occupy Movement? Cambridge I
What is the #Occupy Movement? NYC I
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Summer 2017 readings: Lenin and the 1917 Russian Revolution
Berlin Summer 2016 Readings: Marxism and Identity
Summer 2016 readings: From the 1st to the 2nd International
Berlin Summer 2015 Reading Group: Radical Bourgeois Philosophy
Summer 2015: From the 2nd to the 3rd International
Platypus Primary Marxist Reading Group Summer 2013: Art and Politics
Platypus Primary Marxist Reading Group Summer 2013: Late Capitalism
Platypus Summer 2012 Reading Group: Democracy and Marxism
Platypus Summer 2012 Reading Group: Trotsky and Trotskyism
Platypus Chicago Summer 2010 Reading Group: Marx and Marxism
Platypus Chicago Summer 2009 Reading Group: Radical Bourgeois Philosophy
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1918--2018
No Nazis on Rocky Top?
Marxism and Feminism
50 years of 1968
Anti-fascism in the age of Trump
Critical authoritarianism
Critical authoritarianism
Platypus Houston Reading Group - Fall 2016
What Does Climate Change? - New York
What is the Left? What is Marxism? London 2013 Reading Group
Platypus primary Marxist Reading Group Winter -- Spring 2014
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Freedom in the Anthropocene, Toronto
Capital In History: A Platypus Teach-in
Radical Interpretations of the Present Crisis, NYC
Teach-in: Does Marxism Really Matter?
Capital in History
Left Behind: The Working Class in Crisis
Capital, Spectacle, and Modernity
Re-thinking the Crisis of Capital in Light of the Crisis of the Left
Remember the future!
Capital in history
emancipation 10
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Book review: Karl Korsch, Marxism and Philosophy
notes to Rousseau
excerpt from Trotsky
note on recent readings: Slaughter, Nettl, Luxemburg
Heidegger's conservative-reactionary misunderstanding of freedom
Obama and Clinton
On the Relationship between Psychoanalysis and Emancipatory Politics
Interview: Ernesto Laclau
Taking issue with identity
The Left is dead! Long live the Left!
environmentalism 10
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What Does Climate Change? - New York
What Does Climate Change? - Chicago
What Does Climate Change? - London
Revolutionary politics and thought
Freedom in the Anthropocene, Chicago
The Anthropocene and Freedom
Capital, History and Environmental Politics
The Environmentalism of Occupy
Oil and the Left
Disappearances
maoism 10
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50 years of 1968
Book Review: Josh Moufawad-Paul: *Continuity and Rupture, Philosophy in the Maoist Terrain*
Book Chat with Richard Wolin, author of The Wind from the East
"Thirty years of counter-revolution"
The Occupy movement, a renascent Left, and Marxism today
Kashmir, socialists, and the right to self-determination
The Maoist insurgency in India: End of the road for Indian Stalinism?
Chinoiserie
Red-baiting and ideology
The Hundred Days campaign: the present and future of SDS
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2001
When was the crisis of capitalism?
Beyond Post-Industrial Society and Neo-Marxism
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Subject, class, and the Hegelian legacy in critical social theory
The Imperialism Question and the Twentieth Century
Capital in history
"Let the dead bury the dead!"
Marx after Marxism
The Left is dead! Long live the Left!
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Revolutionary Politics and Thought
150 Years after the First International
Anarcho-Syndicalist Review
Democratic Socialists of America
Europe, Its Crisis, And The Global Left
Lieux Communs (France) / Political Group for Autonomy (Greece)
Marxism and Anarchism, Chicago
TOP B3rlin
The Concept of Left and Right
Tony Cliff's Legacy Today
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Forgetting Mark Fisher
Marx@200: The point is to change the world (Knoxville, 3.27.19)
CPGB contra Lukács
The Birth of a Revolution?
"Thirty years of counter-revolution"
The Legacy of Trotskyism
The Idea of Communism
The Marxist hypothesis
Book Review: Randi Storch. *Red Chicago: American Communism at its Grassroots, 1928-35*.
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Why I Joined Platypus
2011, 1999, 1968 -- and 2012? The history of the Left and #Occupy
Technology, Un/Employment, and the Left
The Environmentalism of Occupy
Third Parties and the Left: Problems and Prospects
Arab Spring into Winter?
Finance Capital and Occupy
Interview with Domenico Losurdo on Liberalism for The Platypus Review
The Significance of Art in the Occupy Movement
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Democracy and the Left, Halifax,
Third Parties and the Left: Problems and Prospects
Crisis of the Left: New York City
The Marxist turn
Platypus 2011 President's report
The Green Movement and the Left
The Left and Prospects for Democracy in the Middle East: Iraq
What is a Movement?
Tariq Ali Interviewed by Chris Cutrone
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Horkheimer on Lenin's "Empiriocriticism"
Horkheimer in 1943 on party and class
The Occupy movement, a renascent Left, and Marxism today
The politics of Critical Theory
The Politics of Critical Theory
Book Review: Theodor W. Adorno, *Philosophy of New Music*
Why is it that nobody understands me, yet everybody likes me?
Rejoinder to David Black
Book review: Karl Korsch, Marxism and Philosophy
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The 90s and 2000's Left Today
Ideology and the student left
Imperialism: What is it, why should we be against it?
Ideology and the Student Left
The New School occupation and the direction of student politics
Red-baiting and ideology
Five questions to the student Left
The Hundred Days campaign: the present and future of SDS
Process point
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Election 2012: An interview with Jill Stein
Election 2012: An interview with Carl Dix
No University is an Island
Marx at the margins
The Birth of a Revolution?
"Thirty years of counter-revolution"
Black nationalism and the legacy of Malcolm X
You Don't Need to be a Marxist to Know Which Way the Wind Blows
What are intellectuals good for?
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The crisis of neoliberalism
The Greek left tradition and the SYRIZA phenomenon
Horkheimer in 1943 on party and class
The crisis in Greece and the prospects for the Left
¿Más allá de la izquierda y la derecha? (Beyond left and right?)
Radical Ideology Today
SYRIZA (Greece)
The Labor Left After Politics and After Utopia
2013 Platypus International Convention Opening Plenary: The Left in Power?
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Book Talk by David Black: 'Alfred Sohn-Rethel's Neo-Kantian Marxism: A Critique'
Does Marxism Really Matter?
Is Marx Back?
The New School occupation and the direction of student politics
Beyond the Politics of Anti-Gentrification
The Hundred Days campaign: the present and future of SDS
To the victor, the spoils
The 3 Rs: Reform, Revolution, and "Resistance"
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Back to Herbert Spencer!
Imperialism: What is it, why should we be against it?
Going it alone: Christopher Hitchens and the death of the Left
Remarks on Chris Cutrone's 'Iraq and the election: the fog of 'anti-war' politics'
Afghanistan, internationalism and the Left
Five questions to the student Left
Iraq and the election
Ba'athism and the history of the Left in Iraq
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Cap on Debt
The anti-political party
Book review: John Holloway, Fernando Matamoros & Sergio Tischler eds. *Negativity & Revolution: Adorno and Political Activism*
The Arab uprisings and the dawn of emancipatory history
An exposé of classic liberalism?
From Habakkuk to Locke: The non-peculiarity of the English Glorious Revolution
Book Review: Karl Korsch, Marxismus und Philosophie
A destroyer of vulgar-Marxism
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Marx@200: The point is to change the world (Knoxville, 3.27.19)
Europe, Its Crisis, And The Global Left
Radical Interpretations of the Present Crisis, Chicago, 1
Radical Interpretations of the Present Crisis
Beyond Post-Industrial Society and Neo-Marxism
Radical Interpretations of the Present Crisis, NYC
Global Rut
Andrew Kliman on his book 'Reclaiming Marx's Capital'
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The 3 Rs: Reform, Revolution and "Resistance", London
The 3 Rs: Reform, Revolution, and Resistance, NYC
The 3 Rs: Reform, Revolution, and Resistance, Boston
The 3 Rs: Reform, Revolution, and Resistance, Toronto
The 3 Rs: Reform, Revolution, and Resistance, Dalhousie
Why is it that nobody understands me, yet everybody likes me?
The 3 Rs: Reform, Revolution, and "Resistance"
Taking issue with identity
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The 3 Rs: Reform, Revolution and "Resistance", London
The 3 Rs: Reform, Revolution, and Resistance, NYC
The 3 Rs: Reform, Revolution, and Resistance, Boston
The 90s and 2000's Left Today
The 3 Rs: Reform, Revolution, and Resistance, Toronto
The 3 Rs: Reform, Revolution, and Resistance, Dalhousie
A polemic on protest
The 3 Rs: Reform, Revolution, and "Resistance"
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Lessons of the Russian Revolution
What is socialism? International social democracy
What Is Political Party For The Left?
Build political independence, don't tail after the ruling class!
Rosa Luxemburg and the party
What is a political party for the Left?
What is political party for the Left?
What is political party for Marxism?
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Art and the Commodity Form
Platypus summer 2012: Democracy and Marxism
U.S. Empire / Islamic Fundamentalism: Both Deadly. New School forum 4/27/11
Platypus introduction to the history of Marxism readings
Platypus primary Marxist reading group Fall/Autumn 2010 -- Winter 2011
Introduction to Platypus readings
MIT reading group
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Platypus primary Marxist reading group Summer and Fall/Autumn 2017 -- Winter 2018
Platypus primary Marxist Reading Group Winter -- Spring 2017
Platypus primary Marxist reading group Summer and Fall/Autumn 2016 -- Winter 2017
Berlin Summer 2016 Readings: Marxism and Identity
Platypus primary Marxist Reading Group Winter -- Spring 2016
Platypus primary Marxist Reading Group Winter -- Spring 2015
Platypus primary Marxist reading group Summer and Fall/Autumn 2014 -- Winter 2015
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The Greek left tradition and the SYRIZA phenomenon
The crisis in Greece and the prospects for the Left
Trotskyism in Greece
The Greek Economic Crisis
Crisis of the eurozone and the Left
Responses to the Global Economic Downturn
Letter from Greece: Brief notes on Revolt and Crisis in Greece and the Greek situation
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Black Politics and the American Left
Closing plenary: The Death of Social Democracy
Trans Liberation Workshop
Women: the Longest Revolution?
Workshop with Brian Tokar (Institute for Social Ecology)
Workshop with Jack Ross, (author of The Socialist Party of America: A Complete History)
Workshop: Bernie Sanders Campaign
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Platypus primary Marxist Reading Group Winter -- Spring 2017
Platypus primary Marxist reading group Summer and Fall/Autumn 2016 -- Winter 2017
Summer 2016 readings: From the 1st to the 2nd International
Platypus primary Marxist Reading Group Winter -- Spring 2016
Platypus primary Marxist readings: Anti-black racism in the U.S.
Platypus primary Marxist Reading Group Winter -- Spring 2015
Platypus primary Marxist reading group Summer and Fall/Autumn 2014 -- Winter 2015
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1914 in the history of Marxism
Imperialism: What is it, why should we be against it?
Going it alone: Christopher Hitchens and the death of the Left
Remarks on Chris Cutrone's 'Iraq and the election: the fog of 'anti-war' politics'
Afghanistan, internationalism and the Left
Ba'athism and the history of the Left in Iraq
The Left is dead! Long live the Left!
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Book Review: Michael Rudolph West. *The Education of Booker T. Washington: American Democracy and the Idea of Race Relations*
The sport of protest
Obama and Clinton
Friedrich Hayek and the legacy of Milton Friedman: Neo-liberalism and the question of freedom
Obama: Progress in regress
Walter Benjamin
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What does it mean to say that Platypus is the psychoanalyst of the Left?
Marx@200: The point is to change the world (Knoxville, 3.27.19)
Emancipation in the heart of darkness
Book Review: Frantz Fanon, *Black Skin, White Masks*
2006 interview with Juliet Mitchell
On the Relationship between Psychoanalysis and Emancipatory Politics
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Black Politics and State Violence: A Panel Discussion - University of Chicago
Black Politics in the Age of Obama
G8 and NATO: Rulers, Domination, and Emancipation
University of Chicago Marxist reading group Winter-Spring 2009
Platypus in the New Yorker article 'Outside Agitator: Naomi Klein and the new new left'