Pam C. Nogales C. and Ross Wolfe Platypus Review 46 | May 2012 On March 17, 2012, Ross Wolfe and Pam Nogales of the Platypus Affiliated Society interviewed Domenico Losurdo, the author, most recently, of Liberalism: A Counter-History (2011). What follows is an edited transcript of their conversation. Full video of the interview can be found at <http://vimeo.com/38923840> Ross Wolfe: [...]
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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 [...]
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Marx at the margins: An interview with Kevin Anderson
Spencer A. Leonard Platypus Review 44 | March 2012 [PDF] Last summer, Spencer A. Leonard interviewed Kevin Anderson, author of Lenin, Hegel, and Western Marxism (1995) and Marx at the Margins (2010). The interview was broadcast on August 2, 2011 on the radio show Radical Minds on WHPK–FM Chicago. What follows is an edited transcript of their [...]
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The elusive “threads of historical progress”: The early Chartists and the young Marx and Engels
David Black Platypus Review 42 | December 2011 – January 2012 [PDF] THE FIRST EVER REACTION by the Victorian ruling class to “Marxism” is found in a London Times leader of September 2, 1851 on “Literature For The Poor,” “only now and then when some startling fact is bought before us do we entertain even the [...]
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Platypus at the Marxist Literary Group summer 2011 Institute on Culture and Society
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: [...]
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After Hegel: An interview with Robert Pippin
Omair Hussain Platypus Review 36 | June 2011 [PDF] On March 14, 2011, Omair Hussain publicly interviewed Robert Pippin, on behalf of Platypus, at an event titled On the Possibility of What Isn’t at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Robert Pippin is a professor on the Committee on Social Thought and in [...]
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Platypus at 2011 Left Forum in NYC
Platypus presents: Lessons from the history of Marxism @ Left Forum March 18-20, 2011 Pace University next to City Hall, New York City online registration page: http://www.leftforum.org/node/23 directions: http://www.leftforum.org/directions Please join us for the following panel discussions: The Bourgeois Revolution: from Marx’s point of view //Saturday, March 19 | 10:00 a.m. – 11:50 a.m. | [...]
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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 [...]
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Praxis, theory, and the unmakeable: An interview with Robert Hullot-Kentor
Chris Mansour Platypus Review 33 | March 2011 [PDF] On February 19, 2011, Chris Mansour of Platypus interviewed Robert Hullot-Kentor, noted Adorno translator and author of Things Beyond Resemblance: Collected Essays on Theodor W. Adorno. What follows is an edited transcript of the interview. Chris Mansour: For several decades you have been translating and interpreting [...]
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The Marxist hypothesis: A response to Alain Badiou’s “communist hypothesis”
Chris Cutrone Platypus Review 29 | November 2010 Against Badiou ALAIN BADIOU’S RECENT BOOK (2010) is titled with the phrase promoted by his and Slavoj Žižek’s work for the last few years, “the communist hypothesis.”1 This is also the title of Badiou’s 2008 essay in New Left Review2 on the historical significance of the 2007 [...]
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