Archive for January 1st, 2007

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The Occupy movement, a renascent Left, and Marxism today: An interview with Slavoj Žižek

Haseeb Ahmed with Chris Cutrone Platypus Review 42 | December 2011 – January 2012 [PDF] On November 5, 2011, using questions formulated together with Chris Cutrone, Haseeb Ahmed interviewed Slavoj Žižek at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, the Netherlands. The following is an edited transcript of their conversation. Haseeb Ahmed: Are we currently—after Tahrir [...]

December 1st, 2011 | | 22 comments | Continued
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The elusive “threads of historical progress”: The early Chartists and the young Marx and Engels

David Black Platypus Review 42 | December 2011 – January 2012 [PDF] THE FIRST EVER REACTION by the Victorian ruling class to “Marxism” is found in a London Times leader of September 2, 1851 on “Literature For The Poor,” “only now and then when some startling fact is bought before us do we entertain even the [...]

December 1st, 2011 | | 0 comments | Continued
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A cry of protest before accommodation? The dialectic of emancipation and domination

Chris Cutrone Platypus Review 42 | December 2011 – January 2012 [PDF] HOW ARE WE TO REGARD the history of revolutions? Why do revolutions appear to fail to achieve their goals? What does this say about consciousness of social change? One common misunderstanding of Marx (against which, however, many counter-arguments have been made) is with [...]

December 1st, 2011 | | 1 comment | Continued


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