After the recent discussion of Luxemburg’s pamphlet on Reform or Revolution? (1900/08), there might be some confusion regarding the relationship between Luxemburg’s formulations and the raison d’etre of Platypus as an organized project today. — What is the point of reading Luxemburg today? Whereas Luxemburg was critiquing Eduard Bernstein and other “revisionists’” arguments that the [...]
February 10th, 2009 | Chris Cutrone | 1 comment | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "revolutionary"
Jan 25 Discussion, Cliff Slaughter, “What is Revolutionary Leadership”
Yesterday, with everyone all back in Boston for the first time since December (Laura literally got in from India an hour before the start of the meeting), we spent a good deal of our time doing organizational planning for the spring session. We were able, however, to spend some time with the Slaughter reading. Our [...]
January 26th, 2009 | admin | 5 comments | Continued
SAIC reading group Spring 2009
Platypus chapter at SAIC meets Sundays at
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
112 S. Michigan Ave.
Room 707
1-4pm
[contact: ian.morrison.a@gmail.com]
January 11th, 2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
University of Chicago Marxist reading group Winter-Spring 2009
Platypus chapter at University of Chicago meets Sundays at
Reynolds Club 5706 S. University Ave.
2nd floor South Lounge
2-5PM
For more information contact mtorre3@artic.edu
University of Chicago, SAIC, MIT, NYU reading group starts January 11
1960s paths not taken (1): Civil Rights – Black Power Platypus Marxist readings for Sunday January 11, 2009 · Richard Fraser, Two Lectures on the Black Question in America and Revolutionary Integrationism (1953) · James Robertson and Shirley Stoute, “For Black Trotskyism” (1963) Spartacist League, “Black and Red — Class Struggle Road to Negro Freedom” [...]
January 1st, 2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
The necessity of leadership
Richard Kidd To change the world, we need a movement. This movement must be made up of millions of people and thousands of organizations. These organizations must build and push the movement forward. How do we get to this point? We have to start with leadership. From 12 to 155 As a union organizer, I [...]
December 1st, 2008 | Platypus Review editor | 0 comments | Continued
To the victor, the spoils: Review of Artforum’s May 2008 issue “May ’68″
Benjamin Blumberg “We succeeded culturally. We succeeded socially. And we lost politically.… I always say: ‘thank God!’” — Daniel Cohn-Bendit in interview on 1968, conducted by Yascha Mounk for The Utopian (2008) “[O]ne asks with whom the adherents of historicism actually empathize. The answer is inevitable: with the victor.… Whoever has emerged victorious participates to [...]
September 1st, 2008 | Platypus Review editor | 0 comments | Continued
Walter Benjamin
Michael Löwy Walter Benjamin occupies a unique place in the history of modern revolutionary thought: he is the first Marxist to break radically with the ideology of progress. His thinking has therefore a distinct critical quality, which sets him apart from the dominant and “official” forms of historical materialism, and gives him a formidable methodological [...]
May 1st, 2008 | Platypus Review editor | 0 comments | Continued
Review: “La Commune”
Soren Whited In 1871 the Paris Commune, a revolutionary body formed during the deep unrest following France’s defeat in the Franco-Prussian war, rose against the post-war provisional government of Adolphe Thiers and briefly held power in France. Two months after it took power, the Commune was brutally suppressed by the French army. In his film [...]
November 1st, 2007 | Platypus Review editor | 0 comments | Continued
Process point
Marisa Holmes Stumbling into the wars resisters office, I found Josh Russell and Madeline Gardner wearing headsets and pacing. It was a week before the convention and they were having yet another discussion as to whether or not the planning committee had the authority to decide whether or not they had the right to make [...]
November 1st, 2007 | Platypus Review editor | 0 comments | Continued