Radical ideologies today: Marxism and anarchism

Halifax

Radical ideologies today: Marxism and anarchism

 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]
marxism  Anarchism 

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]
Anarchism  Marxism  The Institute of Anarchist Studies  The Victor Serge Foundation 

Freedom in the Anthropocene, Halifax

 January 30, 2014  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

A panel event held on 30 January, 2014 at Dalhousie University. Part of the ESS Lecture Series, Dalhousie University College of Sustainability. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists - Dave Bedford Political Science, UNB, author of *The Tragedy of Progress: Marxism, Modernity and the Aboriginal Question - Andrew Biro CRC in Political Ecology, Acadia University author of* Denaturalizing Ecological Politics: ‘Alienation from Nature’ from Rousseau to the Frankfurt School and Beyond [Read More]
Anthropocene  Climate justice  Critical ecology  Eco-socialism  Marxism 

The Politics of Work, Toronto

 January 28, 2014  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

A panel event on held on Tuesday, 28 January 2014, at Hart House, University of Toronto. Sponsored by the Hart House Social Justice Committee. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists  L. Susan Brown - Author of Does Work Really Work Dave Bush - Rankandfile.ca Neil Fischer - Internationalist Perspective Sam Gindin - Greater Toronto Worker’s Assembly, coauthor of The Making of Global Capitalism [Read More]
Anarchism  Internationalist Perspective  Labour  Value  Marxism  Post-work 

Radical Ideology Today

Marxism and Anarchism

 January 17, 2014  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

A panel event that took place in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki at 17 of December 2013, organized by the Thessaloniki chapter of the Platypus Affiliated Society. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Nikos Nikisianis: member of Network for Social and Political rights (participates in Syriza) Lia Gioka: activist and translator Tasos Sapounas: member of the communist marxist-leninist party of Greece Description It seems that there are still only two radical ideologies: Anarchism and Marxism. [Read More]
Anarchism  Ideology  Marxism  Political theory  Politics  Radical  SYRIZA 

CPGB contra Lukács

 January 11, 2014  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

A Platypus-wide teach-in on the CPGB’s campaign against Lukács and its stakes for Platypus as a project. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Description Held on Saturday January 11 1-4PM at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago 112 S. Michigan Ave. room 920 while simultaneously broadcast internationally via Livestream. Paul Demarty's historical chart of Lukács's influence on Platypus The preparatory readings for this event are as follows and can be found at: [Read More]
Communism  CPGB  Marxism  Socialism  Trotskyism 

The Politics of Work

Chicago

 November 6, 2013  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

A panel event held on November 5, 2013, at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Bill Barclay Democratic Socialists of America/Chicago Political Economy Group Lenny Brody Justice Party/Network for Revolutionary Change Leon Fink Professor of labor history, University of Illinois at Chicago Description Capital is not a book about politics, and not even a book about labour: it is a book about unemployment. [Read More]
Chicago Political Economy Group  Democratic Socialists of America  Justice party  Labor  Karl Marx  Marxism  Network for Revolutionary Change  Work 

The Politics of Work, UMass Amherst

 September 20, 2013  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

The second of a panel series with thinkers, activists and political figures focused on contemporary problems faced by the Left in its struggles to construct a politics adequate to the self-emancipation of the working class. Subsequent panels will be held internationally in Halifax, Chicago, London, and Toronto in Fall 2013. Held at UMass Amherst on 13 September 2013. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Transcribed in Platypus Review #62 [Read More]
The Politics of Work  Capitalist production  Employment  Full employment  Karl Marx  Marxism  Mikhail Bjorge  Work  Working class 

Does Marxism Even Matter!?

A teach-in on Capital in History

 September 5, 2013  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

A teach-in held on September 5, 2013 at Dalhousie University, led by Quentin Cyr. Audio Recording Part One Your browser does not support the audio element Part Two Your browser does not support the audio element Description In the mid-19th century, Marx and Engels observed, in the Communist Manifesto, that a “specter” was haunting Europe “ the specter of Communism. A century and a half later, it is Marxism itself that continues to haunt the Left, while capitalism remains. [Read More]
Bourgeois society  Dalhousie University  Karl Marx  Marxism