Kevin Anderson, Chris Cutrone, Nick Kreitman, Danny Postel, and Adam Turl Platypus Review 25 | July 2010 On January 30th, 2007, Platypus hosted its first public forum, “Imperialism: What is it—Why should we be Against it?” The panel consisted of Adam Turl of the International Socialist Organization (ISO), Kevin Anderson of the Marxist-Humanist group News [...]
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The dead Left: Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution
M. A. Torres Platypus Review 25 | July 2010 ONE FINDS QUITE A BIT OF NAME-CALLING among the innumerable articles and blog posts written in criticism of Hugo Chavez and his government. Although most of this invective is not very illuminating, one article by a young, Colombian, Trotsky-ish labor organizer describes Chavez perfectly in two [...]
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Against dogmatic abstraction
A critique of Cindy Milstein on anarchism and Marxism Chris Cutrone Platypus Review 25 | July 2010 AT THE LEFT FORUM 2010, held at Pace University in New York City in March, Cindy Milstein, director of the Institute for Anarchist Studies, spoke at a panel discussion on anarchism and Marxism, chaired by Andrej Grubacic, with [...]
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