The 3 Rs: Reform, Revolution and "Resistance", London

 June 13, 2012  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

A panel discussion with audience Q & A on the problematic forms of “anticapitalism” today. Held on Wednesday 13 June, 7pm at the University of London Union (ULU), Malet Street, London. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Clare Solomon (co-editor of Springtime: The New Student Rebellions (2011); President of the University Of London Union in 2010) James Heartfield (active in extra-parliamentary Left for thirty years; author of The ‘Death of the Subject” Explained (2002), and the forthcoming Unpatriotic History of the Second World War (2012)). [Read More]
Reform  Resistance  Revolution 

The 3 Rs: Reform, Revolution, and Resistance, NYC

 April 26, 2012  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

A panel held on April 26, 2012 at New York University, as part of the 3 Rs panel series. Video Recording Panelists John Asimakopoulos (Institute for Transformative Studies) Todd Gitlin (Columbia University) Tom Trottier (Workers’ International Committee) Ross Wolfe (Platypus Affiliated Society) Description [After the 1960s, the] underlying despair with regard to the real efficacy of political will, of political agency… in a historical situation of heightened helplessness… became a self-constitution as outsider, as other… focused on the bureaucratic stasis of the [Fordist/late 20th century] world: it echoed the destruction of that world by the dynamics of capital [with the neo-liberal turn after 1973, and especially after 1989]. [Read More]
Institute for Transformative Studies  Occupy  Occupy wall street  OWS  Reform  Resistance  Revolution  Workers International Committee 

The 3 Rs: Reform, Revolution, and Resistance, Boston

 April 16, 2012  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

Panel held on April 16, 2012, in Boston, as part of the 3 Rs panel series. Thanks to Doug Enaa Greene (http://www.youtube.com/user/dwgthed) for the video recording. Video Recording Part One Part Two Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Jeff Booth (Socialist Alternative) Gayge (Common Struggle Libertarian Communist Federation) Joe Ramsey (Kasama Project) Laura Lee Schmidt (Platypus) J. Phil Thompson (MIT) [Read More]
Common Struggle Libertarian Communist Federation  Kasama  Reform  Resistance  Revolution  Socialist Alternative 

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 3 Rs: Reform, Revolution, and Resistance, Toronto

 March 14, 2012  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

A moderated panel discussion and audience Q & A on problems of strategies and tactics on the Left today, held on March 14, 2012, at the University of Toronto. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Clare O’Connor Baolinh Dang (Proletarian Revolutionary Action Committee- Revolutionary Students Movement) Cam Hardy (Platypus) Megan Kinch (#Occupy, Toronto Media Co-Op) Jim Stanford (Canadian Auto Workers) Moderated by Ashley Weger (Platypus) [Read More]
Canadian Auto Workers  Proletarian Revolutionary Action Committee- Revolutionary Students Movement  Reform  Resistance  Revolution Co-op 

The 3 Rs: Reform, Revolution, and Resistance, Dalhousie

 January 19, 2012  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

A moderated panel discussion and audience Q & A on problems of strategies and tactics on the Left today held on Thursday, 19 January 2012 at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Eric Anatolik (Occupy NS) Jacques Beaudoin (Parti communiste revolutionnaire - Revolutionary Communist Party, Canada) Howard Epstein (New Democratic Party MLA Halifax Chebucto) Max Haiven (Edu-Factory, Historical and Critical Studies NSCAD) [Read More]
Edu-Factory  Historical and Critical Studies NSCAD  New Democratic Party MLA Halifac Chebucto  Parti communiste revolutionnaire  RCP Canada  Reform  Resistance  Revolution  Revolution Communist Party Canada 

A polemic on protest

Reflections on the RNC resistance

 October 1, 2008  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

I DECIDED NOT TO PARTICIPATE in any illegal protests at the RNC. There’s a simple, material reason: Had I been arrested I would have been accountable for bail money (or unhappily relying on legal defense funds that I truly feel have more value elsewhere) and possibly a day’s worth of income. I have been and continue to be a member of the working class. I grew up with a single mother who worked two low-paying jobs, and for the past five years, living on my own, I have survived well below the poverty line. [Read More]
Anarchism  Movements  Participation  Polarization  Protests  Reflections  Resistance  Revolution  RNC  The Left  Utopia  Violence 

The 3 Rs: Reform, Revolution, and "Resistance"

The Problematic Forms of "Anticapitalism" Today

 November 6, 2007  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

A moderated panel discussion and audience Q & A on problems of strategies and tactics on the Left today, held on November 6, 2007, at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Transcripted in Platypus Review #4 Panelists Michael Albert (Z Magazine, author of Parecon: Life After Capitalism) Chris Cutrone (Platypus) Stephen Duncombe (Gallatin School of New York University, editor of Cultural Resistance Reader) [Read More]
3rs  Anti-capitalism  Reform  Resistance  Revolution