The Crisis Of Neoliberalism

Platypus 3rd European Conference, Vienna 2017

 March 14, 2017  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Chris Cutrone, Platypus Affiliated Society, Chicago John Milios, former Chief economic advisor of SYRIZA, Athens Emmanuel Tomaselli, Funke Redaktion , International Marxist Tendency, Wien Boris Kargalitzky, Institute of Globalisation Studies and Social Movements, Moskau Description The Left has for over a generation – for more than 40 years, since the crisis of 1973 – placed its hopes in the Democratic and Labour Parties to reverse or slow neoliberal capitalism – the move to trans-national trade agreements, the movement of capital and labor, and austerity. [Read More]
Neoliberalism  Crisis 

The failure of the capitalist class and the retreat from production

Book Review: Andrew Kliman, *The Failure of Capitalist Production: Underlying Causes of the Great Recession*

The failure of the capitalist class and the retreat from production

 October 26, 2014  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

WRITTEN IN THE AFTERMATH of the 2008 banking crash and published in 2012, Andrew Kliman’s The Failure of Capitalist Production adds to the extensive literature on American decline.1 Kliman identifies the way that profits have tended to fall relative to investments since the 1970s and also the diminishing rate of investment itself (the latter, he says, a consequence of the former)—a period of underaccumulation over the period from the mid-seventies to the present day, around 40 years, or longer than most people have been alive. [Read More]
Andrew Kliman  Crisis 

The Left After the Crisis

 April 7, 2014  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

A panel discussion held at Loyola University on April 3, 2014. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Tarek Shalaby (Revolutionary Socialists) Quentin Cyr (Quebec Student Strike) Glauk Tahiri (VETEVENDOSJE! movement) Respondent: Samir Gandesha Moderated by Nathan Smith Description From massive demonstrations by students in the UK and Canada, to square occupations and general strikes in Greece, to the reemergence of Left political currents in Kosovo in response to waves of privatization and austerity, responses to the economic downturn were international in character. [Read More]
Crisis  Marxism  Quebec Student Strike  Revolutionary Socialist  Revolutionary Socialists  VETEVENDOSJE! 

Europe, Its Crisis, And The Global Left

 April 5, 2014  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

A panel event held on April 5, 2014 at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago at the Sixth Annual Platypus International Convention. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Bill Barclay  James Heartfield (audacity.org) Mel Rothenberg (Chicago Political Economy Group) Moderated by Alex Gonopolskiy (Platypus London). Description With the end of the Cold War and the disintegration of the Communist states the world has witnessed the unchallenged restoration of capitalism. [Read More]
Platypus International Convention 2014  Audacity.org  Chicago Political Economy Group  Crisis  Economic crisis  EU  The European Union 

Program and utopia

 July 1, 2013  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

THIS YEAR’S PLATYPUS INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION concluded with the plenary “Program and Utopia,” held on June 6 at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. This closing plenary brought together Roger Rashi, founding member of Québec Solidaire; Aaron B., of the Endnotes collective; Stephen Eric Bronner, a professor at Rutgers University, scholar of modernism and the history of socialism, and member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA); Sam Gindin, author, and director of the Greater Toronto Workers’ Assembly; and Richard Rubin, of Platypus. [Read More]
Utopia  Crisis 

Radical interpretations of the present crisis

London

Radical interpretations of the present crisis

 April 1, 2013  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

LAST AUTUMN, chapters of the Platypus Affiliated Society in New York, London, and Chicago hosted similar events on the theme of “Radical Interpretations of the Present Crisis.” The speakers participating in London included David Graeber, Saul Newman, Hillel Ticktin, and James Woudhuysen. The original description of the series reads: “The present moment is arguably one of unprecedented confusion on the Left. The emergence of many new theoretical perspectives on Marxism, anarchism, and the left generally seem rather than signs of a newfound vitality, the intellectual reflux of its final disintegration in history. [Read More]
Public fora  Crisis  Radical interpretations of the present crisis 

Radical Interpretations of the Present Crisis, Chicago, 1

 December 3, 2012  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

A panel event held at the University of Chicago on December 3, 2012. Video Recording Panelists Raymond Lotta Joe Persky David Ruccio David Scheickart Description The present moment is arguably one of unprecedented confusion on the Left. The emergence of many new theoretical perspectives on Marxism, anarchism, and the left generally seem rather than signs of a newfound vitality, the intellectual reflux of its final disintegration in history. [Read More]
Radical Interpretations of the Present Crisis  Crisis  Economic crisis  Marxism  Socialism 

Radical Interpretations of the Present Crisis

 December 1, 2012  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

A panel event held on Saturday, December 1st, 2012 at the Mile End campus of Queen Mary University. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Transcribed in Platypus Review #55 Panelists David Graeber Hillel Ticktin James Woudhuysen Saul Newman Moderated by Lucy Parker. Description The present moment is arguably one of unprecedented confusion on the Left. The emergence of many new theoretical perspectives on Marxism, anarchism, and the left generally seem rather than signs of a newfound vitality, the intellectual reflux of its final disintegration in history. [Read More]
Radical Interpretations of the Present Crisis  Crisis  Economic crisis  Economics 

Global Rut

Chris Cutrone on CrossTalk

 October 15, 2012  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

Platypus Affiliated Society member Chris Cutrone on RT’s Crosstalk, hosted by Peter Lavelle, on the global economic crisis. “The IMF has released a report that predicts the hoped-for global economic growth is again endangered. Why is this happening? Why has the Great Recession come back so early? Did it ever end? Has austerity made things worse? And is there a way to avoid the ‘fiscal cliff’ issue in Washington? [Read More]
Austerity  Capitalism  Crisis  Crosstalk  Economic crisis  Great Recession  Martin Hennecke  Policy  Recession  RT  Seijiro Takeshita  Socialism  Stimulus