June 20–24, 2011 Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois at Chicago Marxism and the bourgeois revolution Spencer Leonard, “Marx’s critique of political economy: Proletarian socialism continuing the bourgeois revolution?” Pamela Nogales, “Marx on the U.S. Civil War as the 2nd American Revolution” Jeremy Cohan, “Lukács on Marx’s Hegelianism and the dialectic of Marxism” Moderator: [...]

Gary Mucciaroni, Sherry Wolf, Kenyon Farrow, and Greg Gabrellas Platypus Review 32 | February 2011 [PDF] On November 8, 2010, Platypus hosted a forum entitled “Which Way Forward for Sexual Liberation?” moderated by Jeremy Cohan at New York University. The panel consisted of Gary Mucciaroni, professor of political science at Temple University; Sherry Wolf, author [...]

Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2010 Greg Gabrellas Platypus Review 27 | September 2010 IN A 2005 COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS, Howard Zinn urged the graduates of Spelman College to look beyond conventional success and follow the tradition set by courageous rebels: “W.E.B. Dubois and Martin Luther King and Malcolm X and Marian Wright Edelman, and James Baldwin [...]

Spencer A. Leonard On Thursday November 19, 2009, Platypus Review Editor-in-Chief Spencer A. Leonard discussed with author George Scialabba a new volume of essays entitled What are Intellectuals Good For? (Boston: Pressed Wafer Press, 2009). Their discussion was conducted live on “Radical Minds,” a radio show Leonard conducts weekly with co-host Greg Gabrellas on WHPK [...]

Laurie Rojas From July 24th until July 28th 2008, the new Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) had its third annual national convention in College Park, Maryland. At the convention, national campaigns were presented and voted on by the attendees. A major campaign introduced at the convention was the Hundred Days campaign, which seeks to [...]