Revolution without Marx?

Rousseau, Kant and Hegel

Revolution without Marx?

 November 1, 2013  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

Introduction BOURGEOIS SOCIETY CAME INTO FULL RECOGNITION WITH ROUSSEAU, who in the *Discourse on the Origin of Inequality* and On the Social Contract, opened its radical critique. Hegel wrote: “The principle of freedom dawned on the world in Rousseau.” Marx quoted Rousseau favorably that “Whoever dares undertake to establish a people’s institutions must feel himself capable of changing, as it were, human nature… to take from man his own powers, and give him in exchange alien powers which he cannot employ without the help of other men. [Read More]
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel  Immanuel Kant  Jean-Jacques Rousseau  Karl Marx 

Nietzsche's untimeliness

Nietzsche's untimeliness

 November 1, 2013  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

Eros and Civilization: the title expressed an optimistic, euphemistic, even positive thought, namely, that the achievements of advanced industrial society would enable man to reverse the direction of progress, to break the fatal union of productivity and destruction, liberty and repression – in other words to learn [Nietzsche’s] gay science. — Herbert Marcuse In [ancient] philosophy the duties of human life were treated as subservient to the happiness and perfection of human life. [Read More]
Friedrich Nietzsche  Jean-Jacques Rousseau  Karl Marx 

Revolution without Marx?

Rousseau and his followers for the Left, Left Forum 2013

 June 9, 2013  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

A panel discussion held at Left Forum 2013, at Pace University, on June 9, 2013. Video Recording Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element This panel was transcripted in Platypus Review #61 Speakers Chris Cutrone Spencer A. Leonard Sunit Singh Description Bourgeois society came into full recognition with Rousseau, who in the Discourse on the Origin of Inequality and On the Social Contract, opened its radical critique. [Read More]
Left Forum  Left Forum 2013  Friedrich Nietzsche  Jean-Jacques Rousseau 

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 

Chinoiserie

A critique of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA's 'New Synthesis'"

Chinoiserie

 August 5, 2010  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

Review of ‘Communism: The Beginning of a New Stage’, a Manifesto from the RCP, USA; and Raymond Lotta, Nayi Duniya, and K. J. A., ‘Alain Badiou’s ‘Politics of Emancipation’: A Communism Locked Within the Confines of the Bourgeois World’ Demarcations 1 (Summer – Fall 2009). Communism: The Beginning of a New Stage. Lotta et al. is available online. Prologue DAVID BHOLAT ADOPTED, as epigraph for his essay “Beyond Equality,” the following passage from Joseph Schumpeter’s classic 1942 book Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy: [Read More]
Alain Badiou  Bob Avakian  Cultural Revolution  David Bholat  Joseph Schumpeter  Immanuel Kant  Vladimir Lenin  Maoism  Karl Marx  Marxism  RCP (USA)  Jean-Jacques Rousseau 

notes to Rousseau

 June 30, 2009  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

The reading group schedule with links to the readings for the summer has been posted here Platypus Marxist reading group summer 2009, June 28 - August 16 Radical bourgeois philosophy: Kant-Hegel-Nietzsche We will address the greater context for Marx and Marxism through the issue of bourgeois radicalism in philosophy in the 18th and 19th Centuries. Discussion will emerge by working through the development from Kant and Hegel to Nietzsche, but also by reference to the Rousseauian aftermath, and the emergence of the modern society of capital, as registered by liberals such as Adam Smith and Benjamin Constant. [Read More]
Chris Cutrone  critical theory  Discussion  emancipation  freedom  Karl Marx  Marxism  Robert Pippin  Jean-Jacques Rousseau