The Politics of Work

One of four panels held by the Platypus Affiliated Society at Left Forum 2014, from May 30 to June 1st, 2014. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Jon Bekken Alan Milchman James Livingston Chaired by Justin Elm Description Capital is not a book about politics, and not even a book about labour: it is a book about unemployment. —Fredric Jameson, Representing Capital: A Reading of Volume One [Read More]

ON SEPTEMBER 20 2013, the Platypus Affiliated Society organized a panel discussion entitled *The Politics of Work* for the *Rethinking Marxism* conference at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. The discussion was moderated by Reid Kane of Platypus. The panelists were asked to respond to a prompt of ten questions that included provocative quotations by Joan Robinson, Fredric Jameson, and André Gorz. This prompt asked each panelist to consider the adequacy of the Left’s historic and ongoing attempts to understand and transform social relations of work and unemployment. [Read More]

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]