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NYC Forum: 30 Years of the Islamic Revolution in Iran: The Tragedy of the Left

The Platypus Affiliated Society presents
30 Years of the Islamic Revolution in Iran: The Tragedy of the Left
6:00pm Sunday, September 13, 2009
at The Brecht Forum 451 West St New York, NY

September 9th, 2009 | NY chapter head | 0 comments | Continued
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30 Years of the Islamic Revolution in Iran: the tragedy of the Left

Chicago                                                   New York City
A moderated panel discussion and audience Q&A on the legacy and effects of the Islamic Revolution for the Left, both in Iran and internationally,  addressing the still-vexing questions of the relationship of anti-imperialism, democracy, and religious fundamentalism for potential responses to [...]

September 1st, 2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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notes to Constant and Kant (1)

I am writing with some very brief notes on the first week of readings from Kant, his essays on “What is Enlightenment?” and “The Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View,” and Benjamin Constant’s essay on “The Liberty of the Ancients Compared with that of the Moderns.”
http://platypus1917.org/2009/06/21/platypus-chicago-summer-2009-radical-bourgeois-philosophy/
We are moving somewhat non-chronologically, [...]

July 19th, 2009 | Chris Cutrone | 0 comments | Continued
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notes to Rousseau

The reading group schedule with links to the readings for the summer has been posted at:
http://platypus1917.org/2009/06/21/platypus-chicago-summer-2009-radical-bourgeois-philosophy/
Platypus Marxist reading group summer 2009, June 28 – August 16
Radical bourgeois philosophy: Kant-Hegel-Nietzsche
We will address the greater context for Marx and Marxism through the issue of bourgeois radicalism in philosophy in the 18th and 19th Centuries. Discussion [...]

June 30th, 2009 | Chris Cutrone | 0 comments | Continued
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Platypus Chicago summer 2009: Radical bourgeois philosophy

Platypus Marxist reading group
June 28 – August 16
Sundays 1-4PM at:
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
112 S. Michigan Ave.
room 707
Radical bourgeois philosophy: Kant-Hegel-Nietzsche
We will address the greater context for Marx and Marxism through the issue of bourgeois radicalism in philosophy in the 18th and 19th Centuries. Discussion will emerge by working through the development from [...]

June 21st, 2009 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
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Platypus NYC summer 2009: Theory post-revolution — Georg Lukács

Platypus NYC summer 2009 readings
Theory post revolution: Georg Lukács
Saturdays, 1:00pm to 4:00pm
July 11th to August 29th
Puck Building, NYU (4th floor)
295 Lafayette St

June 20th, 2009 | NY chapter head | 1 comment | Continued
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my dialogue with Kliman on Chicago Political Workshop, Principia Dialectica and Marxist Humanism

[Andrew Kliman wrote:]
Reply to Chicago Political Workshop, Chris Cutrone, and Principia Dialectica
Posted: May 27th, 2009 | Author: Andrew Kliman | Filed under: Organization, Philosophy | Tags: concreteness, plagiarism, Postone |
On plagiarism, Postone, and “the” present
May 27, 2009
Dear Comrades,
1. First, I want to respond to the charge that I plagiarize Moishe Postone, by categorically denying it. [...]

May 28th, 2009 | Chris Cutrone | 2 comments | Continued
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notes on Adorno in 1968-69

I am writing with some very brief notes on Adorno’s last writings from 1968-69, the “Marginalia to Theory and Praxis,” “Resignation,” “Late Capitalism or Industrial Society? (AKA “Is Marx Obsolete?”),” and the Adorno-Marcuse correspondence of 1969.
The center of Adorno’s critique of the 1960s New Left was their romantic opposition to capitalism, found, for example, in [...]

May 26th, 2009 | Chris Cutrone | 0 comments | Continued
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notes on Adorno

I am writing with some brief notes on Adorno’s 1942 essay “Reflections on Class Theory.”
Another writing by Adorno we read in the group, “Imaginative Excesses,” the final section of the aphorisms orphaned from Minima Moralia (1944-47), published in New Left Review as “Messages in a Bottle,” Adorno addresses the division and necessary unity of “workers [...]

May 18th, 2009 | Chris Cutrone | 0 comments | Continued
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notes on Trotsky and Trotskyism

I am writing with some brief notes on Trotsky’s Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the 4th International, AKA the Transitional Programme for Socialist Revolution (1938).
Trotsky and the phenomenon of Trotskyism was and remains a highly controversial political and historical phenomenon, but one to which one’s reaction is highly symptomatic and indicative.
We in [...]

May 13th, 2009 | Chris Cutrone | 0 comments | Continued