Chris Mansour Platypus Review 45 | April 2012 [PDF] On November 28, 2011, Chris Mansour interviewed Julia Bryan-Wilson, Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of California, Berkeley and the author of Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam War Era (2009). Mansour and Bryan-Wilson talked about the history of the Art Workers’ Coalition and [...]
April 1st, 2012 | PR web editor | 1 comment | ContinuedIssue #45
Learning from the Communist Movement of the 20th century
A response to Richard Rubin Grover Furr Platypus Review 45 | April 2012 [PDF] RICHARD RUBIN ARGUES that “the 1930s were a decade of defeat for the Left.” His essay, “1933,” in the Platypus Review issue on The Decline of the Left in the 20th Century,[1] is an idealist abstraction from real historical events, one founded on [...]
April 1st, 2012 | PR web editor | 9 comments | Continued
The New Left zombie is dead! Long live Occupy!
David Haack Platypus Review 45 | April 2012 [PDF] In the Eighteenth Brumaire, Marx disagrees with Hegel’s famous quote about history when he writes, “Hegel remarks somewhere that all facts and personages of great importance in world history occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce…”[1] Occupy [...]
April 1st, 2012 | PR web editor | 3 comments | Continued