Issue #30

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Up in the air: The legacy of the New Communist Movement

An interview with Max Elbaum Spencer A. Leonard Platypus Review 30 | December 2010 On October 17, 2010, Spencer A. Leonard interviewed Max Elbaum, author of Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao, and Che, to discuss the New Communist Movement of the late 1960s and 1970s. The interview was aired during [...]

December 1st, 2010 | | 2 comments | Continued
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Rethinking the New Left

Osha Neumann, Mark Rudd, Tim Wohlforth, Alan Spector Platypus Review 30 | December 2010 On November 9, 2010, Platypus hosted the public forum, “Rethinking the New Left,” moderated by Spencer A. Leonard. The panel consisted of Osha Neumann, a former member of the New York anarchist group in the 1960s, Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers; [...]

December 1st, 2010 | | 2 comments | Continued
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Lessons from the election

Eric Stoner Platypus Review 30 | December 2010 IN A STRANGE WAY, the debate over whether the American left should support the Green Movement in Iran resembles the arguments that took place in progressive circles before the 2008 presidential elections in the United States, and that reemerged in the recent midterm elections. Those in the [...]

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