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Platypus summer 2012: Democracy and Marxism

Chicago Saturdays 1–4PM School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) 112 S. Michigan Ave. room 920 Facebook invitation: http://www.facebook.com/events/339098822822962/ • required / + recommended reading Film screening: May 2012 • Last Party 2000 (2001) Week 1. May 26, 2012 Marx and democracy • Dick Howard, selections from The Specter of Democracy (2002) + Howard, [...]

May 14th, 2012 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Platypus summer 2012: Trotsky and Trotskyism

The Russian Revolution, which Lenin held up as the torch-light of emancipation for the world proletariat, is being run into national socialist channels. . . . “The Russian proletariat,” said Lenin, “cannot single-handed bring the socialist revolution to a victorious conclusion. But it can give the Russian revolution a mighty impetus such as would create [...]

May 8th, 2012 | | 8 comments | Continued


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