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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The dead Left: Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution
The 3 Rs: Reform, Revolution, and “Resistance:” The problematic forms of “anticapitalism” today
Michael Albert, Chris Cutrone, Stephen Duncombe, Brian Holmes “After the failure of the 1960s New Left, the underlying despair with regard to the real efficacy of political will, of political agency, in a historical situation of heightened helplessness, became a self-constitution as outsider, as other, rather than an instrument of transformation. Focused on the bureaucratic [...]
The 3 Rs: Reform, Revolution, and “Resistance”
(Chicago, 11/6/07)
Public forum on The 3 Rs: Reform, Revolution, and “Resistance” — the problematic forms of “anticapitalism” today.
Panelists: Michael Albert (Z Magazine, author of Parecon: Life After Capitalism), Chris Cutrone (Platypus), Stephen Duncombe (Gallatin School of New York University, editor of Cultural Resistance Reader), Brian Holmes (Continental Drift and Université Tangente), and Marisa Holmes (new Students for a Democratic Society).
