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The Maoist insurgency in India: End of the road for Indian Stalinism?

An interview with Jairus Banaji Spencer A. Leonard and Sunit Singh Platypus Review 26 | August 2010 Given the considerable international interest in the progress of Naxalism on the Indian subcontinent, particularly in the wake of the 2008 Maoist revolution in Nepal, we are pleased to publish the following interview with Marxist and historian Jairus [...]

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Chinoiserie: A critique of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA’s “New Synthesis”

Review of Communism: The Beginning of a New Stage, a Manifesto from the RCP, USA; and Raymond Lotta, Nayi Duniya, and K. J. A., “Alain Badiou’s ‘Politics of Emancipation’: A Communism Locked Within the Confines of the Bourgeois World” Demarcations 1 (Summer–Fall 2009).[1] Chris Cutrone Platypus Review 26 | August 2010 Prologue DAVID BHOLAT ADOPTED, [...]

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The Platypus Affiliated Society launches new site!

The Platypus Affiliated Society The Platypus Affiliated Society, established in December 2006, organizes reading groups, public fora, research and journalism focused on problems and tasks inherited from the “Old” (1920s-30s), “New” (1960s-70s) and post-political (1980s-90s) Left for the possibilities of emancipatory politics today. [PDF] Get connected with the Platypus Yahoo! discussion group and the Platypus [...]

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Platypus primary Marxist reading group Fall/Autumn–Winter 2010–11

I. What is the “Left?” — What is “Marxism?” Saturdays 1–4PM School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) 112 S. Michigan Ave. room 707 University of Chicago (UChicago) The Reynolds Club 2nd floor South Lounge 5706 S. University Ave. • required / + recommended reading A. Sept. 11, 2010 (SAIC only) • Moishe Postone, [...]

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Platypus introductory readings

10 sessions of readings introducing the raison d’être of the Platypus project.

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Platypus NYC summer 2010: Marx and Marxism

Platypus Marxist reading group June 13 – August 22, 2010 Sundays 1–4PM at: New School University 25 E. 13th St. room 502 Please e-mail Pac Pobric at zpobric@gmail.com with any questions. Marx and Marxism Marx and Engels at work together Readings pp. from Robert C. Tucker, ed., Marx-Engels Reader (Norton 2nd ed., 1978) (* at [...]

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Imperialism: What is it, why should we be against it?

Kevin Anderson, Chris Cutrone, Nick Kreitman, Danny Postel, and Adam Turl Platypus Review 25 | July 2010 On January 30th, 2007, Platypus hosted its first public forum, “Imperialism: What is it—Why should we be Against it?” The panel consisted of Adam Turl of the International Socialist Organization (ISO), Kevin Anderson of the Marxist-Humanist group News [...]

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The dead Left: Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution

M. A. Torres Platypus Review 25 | July 2010 ONE FINDS QUITE A BIT OF NAME-CALLING among the innumerable articles and blog posts written in criticism of Hugo Chavez and his government. Although most of this invective is not very illuminating, one article by a young, Colombian, Trotsky-ish labor organizer describes Chavez perfectly in two [...]

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Imperialism

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Against dogmatic abstraction

A critique of Cindy Milstein on anarchism and Marxism Chris Cutrone Platypus Review 25 | July 2010 AT THE LEFT FORUM 2010, held at Pace University in New York City in March, Cindy Milstein, director of the Institute for Anarchist Studies, spoke at a panel discussion on anarchism and Marxism, chaired by Andrej Grubacic, with [...]

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Book Review: Terry Eagleton, Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. Max Elliot Katz STUDY THE STALLS OF A SEMINARY BATHROOM and chances are you will find the following scrawled out in ballpoint: “Nietzsche: God is Dead. God: Nietzsche is dead.” The quip relies on a misreading—God, for Nietzsche, did not die like your grandmother or pet turtle might die. [...]

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You don’t need a Marxist to know which way the wind blows: An interview with Mark Rudd

Spencer Leonard with Atiya Khan On Thursday March 11, 2010, Platypus Review Editor-in-Chief Spencer A. Leonard interviewed the prominent 1960s radical and last National Secretary of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Mark Rudd, to discuss his recently published political memoir, Underground. In April, Leonard’s interview with Rudd, prepared in conjunction with Atiya Khan, was [...]

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