Dialectics of Defeat

Towards a Theory of Historical Regression

Panel presentation by the Platypus Affiliated Society at Left Forum 2009: “Turning Points,” Pace University, NYC, April 17-19, 2009. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Transcript Panelists Benjamin Blumberg (Chair) Chris Cutrone Atiya Khan Spencer A. Leonard Richard Rubin Description The panelists elucidate significant moments in the progressive separation of theory and practice in the 20 and 21st Century history of Leftist politics: 2001 (Spencer A. [Read More]

History of the Left

Session II: 1917

A lecture by Platypus Affiliated Society member Chris Cutrone on the history of the Left that led up to the 1917 Russian Revolution, given on August 12, 2007. Part of the History of the Left lecture series held in the summer of 2007.

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1917