Chris Cutrone Platypus Review 48 | July–August 2012 [PDF] If the Bolshevik Revolution is—as some people have called it—the most significant political event of the 20th century, then Lenin must for good or ill be considered the century’s most significant political leader. Not only in the scholarly circles of the former Soviet Union, but even among many [...]
July 1st, 2012 | PR web editor | 1 comment | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "Egypt"
The Occupy movement, a renascent Left, and Marxism today: An interview with Slavoj Žižek
Haseeb Ahmed with Chris Cutrone Platypus Review 42 | December 2011 – January 2012 [PDF] On November 5, 2011, using questions formulated together with Chris Cutrone, Haseeb Ahmed interviewed Slavoj Žižek at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, the Netherlands. The following is an edited transcript of their conversation. Haseeb Ahmed: Are we currently—after Tahrir [...]
December 1st, 2011 | PR web editor | 22 comments | Continued
Egypt, or, history’s invidious comparisons: 1979, 1789, and 1848
Chris Cutrone Platypus Review 33 | March 2011 [PDF] THE UPRISING IN EGYPT, which followed soon after the toppling of the old regime in Tunisia, succeeded in bringing down Hosni Mubarak on February 11, the 32nd anniversary to the day of the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran. Already, before this timely coincidence, comparisons between the [...]
March 1st, 2011 | PR web editor | 1 comment | Continued