Marx's Critique of Political Economy

Proletarian Socialism Continuing the Bourgeois Revolution?

 August 19, 2011  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

A presentation by Platypus member Spencer A. Leonard on August 19, 2011, at Communist University, which took place from August 17th to August 20, 2011, at Goldsmiths, University of London.

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Mike Macnair’s Critique of Platypus

Cutrone, “Capital in history” (2008)

Cutrone, “The Marxist hypothesis” (2010)

Bourgeois  Bourgeois revolution  Goldsmiths  Karl Marx  Marxism  Proletarian  Proletarian revolution  Proletarian socialism  Socialism 

Capital in History

Marxism and the Modern Philosophy of Freedom

 August 16, 2011  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

A presentation by Platypus member Chris Cutrone on August 16, 2011, at Communist University, which took place from August 17th to August 20, 2011, at Goldsmiths, University of London. Video Credit: Communist Party of Great Britain. Video Recording Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element What is progress if not the absolute elaboration of humanity’s creative dispositions… unmeasured by any previously established yardstick[,] an end in itself… the absolute movement of becoming? [Read More]
Becoming  Bourgeois  Capital  Capitalism  Freedom  Grundrisse  History  Karl Marx  Marxism  Proletarian 

History of Humanity

1600-1763

 July 27, 2011  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

A lecture by Platypus member James Vaughn upon the history of humanity between 1600 and 1763, given as part of the Platypus summer 2011 radical bourgeois philosophy reading group. Held on July 27, 2011 in Philadelphia. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Description Platypus Summer Reading Group 2011: Radical Bourgeois Philosophy Rousseau-Smith-Kant-Hegel-Nietzsche We will address the greater context for Marx and Marxism through the issue of bourgeois radicalism in philosophy in the 18 and 19 Centuries. [Read More]
Philadelphia Media  Bourgeois  Bourgeois revolution  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel  Immanuel Kant  Liberal  Liberalism  Karl Marx  Friedrich Nietzsche  Radical bourgeois philosophy  Jean-Jacques Rousseau 

The History of Humanity

Pre-1750

 June 30, 2011  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

A lecture by Platypus member James Vaughn upon the history of humanity up to 1750, given as part of the Platypus summer 2011 radical bourgeois philosophy reading group. Held on June 30, 2011 at New York University. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Description Platypus Summer Reading Group 2011: Radical Bourgeois Philosophy Rousseau-Smith-Kant-Hegel-Nietzsche We will address the greater context for Marx and Marxism through the issue of bourgeois radicalism in philosophy in the 18 and 19 Centuries. [Read More]
Bourgeois  Bourgeois revolution  Bourgeois Revolutions  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel  Immanuel Kant  Friedrich Nietzsche  Pre-1750s  Radical bourgeois philosophy  Jean-Jacques Rousseau 

Marxism and the Bourgeois Revolution

 June 20, 2011  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

Panel held at the Marxist Literary Group Summer 2011 Institute on Culture and Society at the Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois at Chicago on June 20, 2011. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Spencer A. Leonard, “Marx’s critique of political economy: Proletarian socialism continuing the bourgeois revolution?” Pamela Nogales, “Marx on the U.S. Civil War as the 2 American Revolution” Jeremy Cohan, “Lukács on Marx’s Hegelianism and the dialectic of Marxism” [Read More]
Bourgeois  Bourgeois revolution  Karl Marx  Marxism  Marxist Literary Group 

The Bourgeois Revolution From Marx's Point of View

 March 19, 2011  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

A panel discussion organized by the Platypus Affiliated Society, held on March 19, 2011, at Left Forum, Pace University. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists James Vaughn - University of Texas at Austin, Platypus Affiliated Society Jeremy Cohan - New York University Richard Rubin - Platypus Affiliated Society Spencer A. Leonard - University of Chicago, Platypus Affiliated Society Description The “bourgeois revolutions” from the 16 through the 19 centuries – extending into the 20–conformed humanity to modern city life, ending traditional, pastoral, religious custom in favor of social relations of the exchange of labor. [Read More]
Left Forum  Left Forum 2011  Bourgeois  Bourgeois revolution  Bourgeoisie  Karl Marx 

Capital in history

The need for a Marxian philosophy of history of the Left

 October 1, 2008  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society  • Other languages: Deutsch, Español, Ελληνικά

The following is a talk given at the Marxist-Humanist Committee public forum on The Crisis in Marxist Thought, hosted by the Platypus Affiliated Society in Chicago on Friday, July 25th, 2008. I want to speak about the meaning of history for any purportedly Marxian Left. We in Platypus focus on the history of the Left because we think that the narrative one tells about this history is in fact one’s theory of the present. [Read More]
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