Chris Mansour Platypus Review 39 | September 2011 [PDF] At the 2011 Left Forum, held at Pace University between March 18–21, Platypus hosted a conversation on the theme of Aesthetics in Protests. Panelists Stephen Duncombe (Reclaim the Streets), Marc Herbst (Journal of Aesthetics and Protest), Chris Mansour (Platypus), Laurel Whitney (The Yes Men), were asked to [...]
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Immigration and the Left: An Interview with David Wilson
Jeremy Cohan Platypus Review 39 | September 2011 [PDF] Jeremy Cohan publicly interviewed David Wilson, coauthor of The Politics of Immigration (2007), on April 19th, 2011 at NYU. The original description of the event reads: “Mass marches on May Day 2006 in the U.S., banning of minarets in Switzerland, pogroms in Libya against blacks from [...]
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Lenin’s legacy today
Tamas Krausz Platypus Review 39 | September 2011 [PDF] A HISTORICALLY ADEQUATE INTERPRETATION of Lenin’s Marxism must begin with the recognition that Lenin’s legacy is essentially a political application of Marx’s theory of capital as a historically-specific social formation. It required further development in light of experiences under determinate historical circumstances, such as the development [...]
August 31st, 2011 | PR web editor | 1 comment | Continued