Review of Antonis Vradis and Dimitris Dalakoglou, eds., Revolt and crisis in Greece: Between a present yet to pass and a future still to come (Oakland: AK Press & Occupied London, 2011). Thodoris Velissaris Platypus Review 41 | November 2011 [PDF] The book “What is happening here exceeds us.” (199) THERE IS A BAD THEORETICAL [...]
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Black nationalism and the legacy of Malcolm X: An interview with Michael Dawson
Spencer A. Leonard Platypus Review 41 | November 2011 [PDF] Last fall, editor Spencer A. Leonard interviewed Michael Dawson, Director of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture at the University of Chicago. The interview, which centered around a discussion of Manning Marable’s new biography of Malcolm X, was broadcast on September [...]
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Whither Marxism? Why the occupation movement recalls Seattle 1999
Chris Cutrone Platypus Review 41 | November 2011 [PDF] THE PRESENT OCCUPATION MOVEMENT expresses a return to the Left of the late 1990s, specifically the 1999 anti-World Trade Organization protests in Seattle. They both have taken place in the last year of a Democratic U.S. Presidential administration, been spearheaded by anarchism, had discontents with neoliberalism [...]
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