Anarchism

Radical Ideologies Today

Anarchism and Marxism, London

January 5, 2015 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

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/>. This panel was held in London on 20 November 2014. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists John Sinha, Occupy London Activist and member of SWP Tony Wood, Anarchist Bookfair organiser Iain McKay, author of An Anarchist FAQ Dan Morley, Socialist Appeal (International Marxist Tendency) [Read More]

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Radical Ideologies Today: Marxism and Anarchism (University of Chicago)

December 24, 2014 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

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/>. This panel was held at the University of Chicago on 20 November 2014. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Christopher P. (Anarcho-Syndicalist Review) Michael Staudenmaier (author, Truth and Revolution) Mel Rothenberg (Chicago Political Economy Group) Jamie Theophilos (local activist) [Read More]

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On Anarchism and Marxism

In response to Price and Swenson

May 6, 2014 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

IN RESPONSE TO THE CRITIQUES of Wayne Price and Liam Swenson to my piece on anarchism in The Platypus Review #65,1 I will reiterate what I consider the major differences between Marxist revolutionary theory and anarchism in general. I say in general because I see nothing to be gained by dealing with the great variety of differences within anarchism itself presented by these critiques. In fact their great variety proves the very fleeting and vacillating nature of the anarchist project. [Read More]

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Marxism and Anarchism, Chicago

April 5, 2014 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

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]

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Anarcho-Syndicalist Review

Differing Perspectives on the Left

April 5, 2014 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

A workshop with the Anarcho-Syndicalist Review (Jon Bekken) held on April 5, 2014, at the Sixth Platypus International Convention. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Every year at the Platypus International Convention, speakers from various perspectives are 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]

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150 Years after the First International

A Critical History

April 5, 2014 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

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 Jon Bekken (Anarcho-Syndicalist Review) James Heartfield (audacity.org) William Pelz (Elgin Community College) Description The First International (1864 - 1876), or International Workingmen’s Association, was founded in the long shadow of 1848, amidst Polish and Italian national liberation movements and the upheaval of the American Civil War. [Read More]

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The Leninist Protests Too Much

A response to Herb Gamberg

April 1, 2014 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

HERB GAMBERG’S ARTICLE “Anarchism through Bakunin: A Marxist Assessment” opens by claiming that anarchist theory has had little to no historical development since the 19th century, and that, apparently, “anarchism possesses no really developed theory in the first place”.1 Indeed, Gamberg asserts that anarchism comes from somewhere or, rather, that “psychological predispositions like anarchism have social roots and definite socio-political consequences”. Thus, anarchists are in a state of permanent revolt against authority caused by a holdover from the bourgeois revolution. [Read More]

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Radical ideologies today: Marxism and anarchism

Halifax

April 1, 2014 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

THIS SPRING, The Platypus Affiliated Society hosted a series panels on “Radical ideologies today: Marxism and anarchism” in New York, Frankfurt, Halifax, Thessaloniki, and Chicago. The panel description reads: “It seems that there are still only two radical ideologies: Marxism and anarchism. 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]

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In defense of anarchism

A response to Herb Gamberg

April 1, 2014 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

HERB GAMBERG’S ESSAY ”Anarchism Through Bakunin; A Marxist Assessment” (Platypus Review #64)1 is not meant to be a balanced discussion of Michael Bakunin’s strengths and weaknesses, nor is it a comparison of the strengths and weaknesses of anarchism and Marxism. It is a direct, full-throated attack on anarchism, using Bakunin as his focus in the name of Marxism. In this, he makes a mistake. Important as Bakunin was in initiating the anarchist movement, it is easy to overstate his significance. [Read More]

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Marxism and Anarchism

Radical Ideologies Today, Stony Brook

March 5, 2014 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

A moderated panel discussion on Marxism and Anarchism held at Stony Brook University on March 5, 2014. Video Recording Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Michael Schwartz (Stony Brook) Richard Greeman (The Victor Serge Foundation) Joshua Stephens (The Institute of 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]

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