Spencer A. Leonard Platypus Review 43 | February 2012 [PDF] Last summer, Spencer A. Leonard interviewed Clyde Young, a veteran member of the Revolutionary Communist Party. The interview was broadcast on June 31, 2011 on the radio show Radical Minds on WHPK–FM Chicago. What follows is an edited transcript of their conversation. A shorter version of this [...]
January 29th, 2012 | PR web editor | 0 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "Maoism"
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
Overcoming bourgeois right: An interview with Mel Rothenberg
Spencer Leonard Platypus Review 34 | April 2011 [PDF] On January 31, 2011, Spencer A. Leonard interviewed Mel Rothenberg, author of The Myth of Capitalism Reborn: A Marxist Critique of Theories of Capitalist Restoration in the USSR to discuss the theoretical underpinnings of American Maoism in the 1970s. The interview was aired on the radio [...]
April 3rd, 2011 | PR web editor | 1 comment | Continued
Kashmir, socialists, and the right to self-determination
Rohini Hensman Platypus Review 32 | February 2011 [PDF] THE BLOODSHED IN KASHMIR beginning in June 2010 gave rise to a heated debate in India concerning the causes of and possible solutions to the conflict. A meeting on 21 October in Delhi organized by the pro-Maoist Committee for the Release of Political Prisoners was entitled [...]
February 1st, 2011 | PR web editor | 2 comments | Continued
The Maoist insurgency in India: End of the road for Indian Stalinism?
An interview with Jairus Banaji Spencer A. Leonard and Sunit Singh Platypus Review 26 | August 2010 Given the considerable international interest in the progress of Naxalism on the Indian subcontinent, particularly in the wake of the 2008 Maoist revolution in Nepal, we are pleased to publish the following interview with Marxist and historian Jairus [...]
August 6th, 2010 | PR web editor | 7 comments | Continued
Chinoiserie: A critique of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA’s “New Synthesis”
Review of Communism: The Beginning of a New Stage, a Manifesto from the RCP, USA; and Raymond Lotta, Nayi Duniya, and K. J. A., “Alain Badiou’s ‘Politics of Emancipation’: A Communism Locked Within the Confines of the Bourgeois World” Demarcations 1 (Summer–Fall 2009).[1] Chris Cutrone Platypus Review 26 | August 2010 Prologue DAVID BHOLAT ADOPTED, [...]
August 5th, 2010 | PR web editor | 3 comments | Continued
Red-baiting and ideology: the new SDS
To the editors of the Platypus Review: I am not now, nor have I ever been, either a Maoist or sympathetic to Maoism. I am also not a member of SDS. I was outraged however, by the blatant red-baiting of Rachel Haut in a recent Platypus Review Interview and disturbed that it seems to have [...]
December 1st, 2008 | Platypus Review editor | 0 comments | Continued
The Hundred Days campaign: the present and future of SDS: An interview with Rachel Haut
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 [...]
September 1st, 2008 | Platypus Review editor | 0 comments | Continued