Forgetting Mark Fisher

Forgetting Mark Fisher

 April 1, 2019  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

“My whole lifetime, every time you think the Left has got somewhere, the Right is one step ahead of it”1 – Mark Fisher (1968–2017) MARK FISHER WAS OFTEN ASKED what “capitalist realism” is. His most interesting answer was that it is “a pathology of the Left.”2 This cut against other definitions of his oft-used concept, which identified it with “neoliberalism.” What ties the two together is implied in the subtitle to his 2009 book – Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative? [Read More]
Mark Fisher  Accelerationism  post-capitalism  Communism  Neoliberalism  Capitalism  Capitalist Realism  Jeremy Corbyn 

The crisis of neoliberalism

 May 3, 2017  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

On February 18th, 2017, as part of its third European Conference, the Platypus Affiliated Society organized a panel discussion, “The Crisis of Neoliberalism,” at the University of Vienna. The event brought together the following speakers: Chris Cutrone, President of Platypus; John Milios, former chief economic advisor of SYRIZA; Emmanuel Tomaselli, of the International Marxist Tendency; and Boris Kagarlitsky, of the Institute for Globalization Studies and Social Movements in Moscow. What follows is an edited transcript of their discussion. [Read More]
Bernie Sanders  Jeremy Corbyn  neoliberalism  SYRIZA 

Neoliberalism And Its Discontents

 April 6, 2017  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

Recording of a panel hosted by the Platypus Affiliated Society at the University of Illinois, Chicago, April 6, 2017. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Danny Jacobs Reid Kane Catherine Liu Pam C. Nogales C Daniel Rudin Description Leftists today lament the strength of neoliberal hegemony. The use of “hegemony” underlines the ideological dimension of the neoliberal order; it suggests that mass ideological legitimacy — and not the triumph of pure force or of back-door machinations — has made neoliberalism politically possible. [Read More]
Neoliberalism 

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 Crisis Of Neoliberalism - London

 February 1, 2017  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

A panel event on 30 November 2016 at the London School of Economics. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Adam Booth (writer and activist with Socialist Appeal and the International Marxist Tendency) James Heartfield (Sp!ked / Author of ‘An Unpatriotic History of the Second World War’) Patrick Neveling (SOAS Development Studies, Utrecht University Cultural Anthropology) Paul Demarty (Weekly Worker / CPGB) 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 

Neoliberalism and its discontents

Neoliberalism and its discontents

 May 3, 2015  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

ON APRIL 10, 2015, the Platypus Affiliated Society hosted a discussion on neoliberalism and the Left featuring Walter Benn Michaels, author of The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality; Toby Chow, an organizer with Southsiders Organized for Unity and Liberation (SOUL) and The People’s Lobby; Margaret Power, author of Right-Wing Women in Chile: Feminine Power and the Struggle Against Allende, 1964–1973; and Donald Parkinson, a founding member of the Communist League of Tampa. [Read More]
Neoliberalism 

1873--1973: The century of Marxism

 April 1, 2012  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

A presentation by Chris Cutrone, President of the Platypus Affiliated Society, delivered on April 1, 2012 as part of the 2012 Platypus Affiliated International Convention held at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, upon the subject of the death of Marxism and the emergence of neo-liberalism and neo-anarchism.

Audio Recording

Transcript in Platypus Review #47

Platypus International Convention 2012  Marxism  Neo-liberalism  Neoanarchism  Neoliberalism 

The 90s and 2000's Left Today

 March 31, 2012  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

Panel held on March 31st, 2012 at the Fourth Annual Platypus International Convention, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Daniel Dulce (Crimthinc) Thodoris Velissaris (Platypus) Nick Kreitman (Platypus, Formerly new SDS) Mike Ely (Kasama) Joshua Moufawad-Paul (Supporter, Parti communiste revolutionnaire - Revolutionary Communist Party (Canada) Description The two decades of the 1990s-2000s form a cycle containing certain common as well as differing concerns. [Read More]
Occupy  Platypus International Convention 2012  1990s  /2000s  90s  Black Bloc  Communisation  Crimthinc  Empire  Kasama  Neoconservatism  Neoliberalism  New SDS  Parti communiste revolutionnaire  Platypus  RCP Canada  Resistance  Revolution Communist Party -- Canda  Rhizomatic  Rhizome  SDS  Social justice 

The movement as an end-in-itself?

The movement as an end-in-itself?

 January 31, 2012  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society  • Other languages: Ελληνικά

ON DECEMBER 16, 2011, Ross Wolfe interviewed David Graeber, Reader at Goldsmiths College in London, author of Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (2004), and central figure in the early stages of the #Occupy Wall Street Movement. What follows is an edited transcript of the interview. Folk singer Tea Leigh at the #Occupy site Ross Wolfe: There are striking similarities between the #Occupy movement and the 1999 anti-WTO protests in Seattle. [Read More]
Anarchism  David Graeber  Occupy  Occupy Wall Street  Protest  neoliberalism