The New Left zombie is dead! Long live Occupy!

 April 1, 2012  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

IN THE EIGHTEENTH BRUMAIRE, Marx disagrees with Hegel’s famous quote about history when he writes, “Hegel remarks somewhere that all facts and personages of great importance in world history occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce…”1 Occupy is not a return to the New Left, a farce of the sixties. Usually history becomes codified once the right academic authorities have made their case most palatable to other academic authorities. [Read More]
C. Wright Mills  Eighteenth Brumaire  Karl Marx  New Left  OWS  Occupy  Slavoj Žižek  David Haack  PR Occupy 

Whence Anarchism?

The Historical Conjuncture of #Occupy

 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 John Slavin (Industrial Workers of the World, 4 Star Anarchist Organization) Daniel Dulce (Crimethinc) Kelvin Ho (Occupy Chicago) Sara Whitford (Formerly Occupy Chicago) Description #Occupy represents one of the most significant prospects and challenges for the Left in the past decade. [Read More]
Occupy  Platypus International Convention 2012  4 Star Anarchist Organization  Anarchism  Crimthinc  Industrial Workers of the World  IWW  Occupy  Occupy Chicago  Occupy wall street  OWS 

Whence Anarchism?

The Historical Conjuncture of #Occupy

 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 John Slavin (Industrial Workers of the World, 4 Star Anarchist Organization) Daniel Dulce (Crimethinc) Kelvin Ho (Occupy Chicago) Sara Whitford (Formerly Occupy Chicago) Description #Occupy represents one of the most significant prospects and challenges for the Left in the past decade. [Read More]
Occupy  Platypus International Convention 2012  4 Star Anarchist Organization  Anarchism  Crimthinc  Industrial Workers of the World  IWW  Occupy  Occupy Chicago  Occupy wall street  OWS 

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 

Occupy Chicago

Differing Perspectives on the Left

 March 31, 2012  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

A workshop on Occupy Chicago with representatives and participants in the movement held on March 31st, 2012. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element At the fourth annual international convention of the Platypus Affiliated Society, speakers from various perspectives were asked to bring their experience of the Left’s recent history to bear on today’s political possibilities and challenges as part of the “Differing Perspectives on the Left” workshop series. [Read More]
Platypus International Convention 2012  Occupy Chicago  Occupy 

Lenin and the Marxist Left after #Occupy

 March 31, 2012  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

A panel discussion held at the 2012 Platypus International Convention on March 31st, 2012.

Audio Recording

Transcript in Platypus Review #47

Panelists

Ben Lewis—Communist Party of Great Britain

Tom Riley—International Bolshevik Tendency

Chris Cutrone (Moderator)—Platypus Affiliated Society

Platypus International Convention 2012  Communist Party of Great Britain  GPGB  IBT  International Bolshevik Tendency  Vladimir Lenin  Occupy  Occupy wall street  OWS 

Defining Democracy: The Labor Movement and #Occupy

 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 John Peterson (International Marxist Tendency) David Moberg (In These Times) James Manos (Occupy Chicago Labor Committee) Description In 2009 President Obama’s auto bailouts became a major flashpoint between the left and the mainstream of the labor movement. The majority of the left, including UAW dissidents, felt the auto bailouts were a missed opportunity to retool our manufacturing base, and a miserable half-measure. [Read More]
Occupy  Platypus International Convention 2012  Democracy  In These Times  International Marxist Tendency  Labor  Labor movement  Occupy  Occupy Chicago  Occupy wall street  Organized labor  OWS 

Defining Democracy: The Labor Movement and #Occupy

 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 John Peterson (International Marxist Tendency) David Moberg (In These Times) James Manos (Occupy Chicago Labor Committee) Description In 2009 President Obama’s auto bailouts became a major flashpoint between the left and the mainstream of the labor movement. The majority of the left, including UAW dissidents, felt the auto bailouts were a missed opportunity to retool our manufacturing base, and a miserable half-measure. [Read More]
Occupy  Platypus International Convention 2012  Democracy  In These Times  International Marxist Tendency  Labor  Labor movement  Occupy  Occupy Chicago  Occupy wall street  Organized labor  OWS 

Technology, Un/Employment, and the Left

From Future Shock to OWS

 March 18, 2012  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

Video Recording Panelists George Caffentzis is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine in Portland, Maine. He is a founding member of the Midnight Notes Collective. He is the author of many books and articles on money, machines and capitalism. His e-book, “No Blood for Oil!” can be downloaded gratis at radicalpolytics.org. Dr. Fred Block is Research Professor of Sociology at UC Davis with interests in economic and political sociology. [Read More]
Occupy  Left Forum  Left Forum 2012  Employment  Futurism  Post-Fordiam  Technology  Unemployment  Work 

2011, 1999, 1968 -- and 2012? The history of the Left and #Occupy

 March 18, 2012  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

Video Recording Panelists Brooke Lehman is a faculty member at the Institute for Social Ecology and a longtime activist. She is on the Board of Smartmeme, the Brecht Forum, and Yansa, and spends most of her time organizing with Occupy Wall Street. Dave Haack is an organizer of Occupy Your Workplace. Description The two historical precedents for #Occupy are Seattle in 1999 and Paris in May 1968. The 1960s and 1990s saw the rise of anarchism against otherwise predominant liberal, social-democratic and Marxist tendencies. [Read More]
Occupy  Left Forum  Left Forum 2012  1968  1999  Occupy wall street  OWS  Seattle