Spencer A. Leonard and Watson Ladd Platypus Review 46 | May 2012 Last winter, on their radio show Radical Minds on WHPK-FM Chicago, Spencer A. Leonard and Watson Ladd interviewed Ben Lewis, a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain and co-author and translator, together with Lars T. Lih, of Zinoviev and Martov: Head to Head in [...]
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On “The Marxism of Rosa Luxemburg”
Greg Gabrellas Platypus Review 38 | August 2011 [PDF] At the Marxist Literary Group’s Institute on Culture and Society 2011, held on June 20–24, 2011 at the Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois at Chicago, Platypus members Chris Cutrone, Greg Gabrellas, and Ian Morrison organized a panel on “The Marxism of Second International Radicalism: [...]
August 5th, 2011 | PR web editor | 0 comments | Continued
The politics of Critical Theory
THIRD ANNUAL PLATYPUS INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION Opening plenary Chris Cutrone, Andrew Feenberg, Richard Westerman, and Nicholas Brown Platypus Review 37 | July 2011 [PDF] The opening plenary of the third annual Platypus Affiliated Society international convention, held April 29–May 1, 2011 at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, was a panel discussion between Nicholas [...]
July 9th, 2011 | PR web editor | 3 comments | Continued
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: [...]
June 26th, 2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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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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
Gillian Rose’s “Hegelian” critique of Marxism
Book review: Gillian Rose, Hegel Contra Sociology. London: Verso, 2009. Chris Cutrone GILLIAN ROSE’S MAGNUM OPUS was her second book, Hegel Contra Sociology (1981).[1] Preceding this was The Melancholy Science: An Introduction to the Thought of Theodor W. Adorno (1978), a work which charted Rose’s approach to the relation of Marxism to Hegel in Hegel [...]
March 15th, 2010 | admin | 3 comments | Continued
Rejoinder to David Black: On Karl Korsch’s Marxism and Philosophy
Chris Cutrone DAVID BLACK’S VALUABLE COMMENTS and further historical exposition (in Platypus Review 18, December 2009) of my review of Karl Korsch’s Marxism and Philosophy (Platypus Review 15, September 2009) have at their core an issue with Korsch’s account of the different historical phases of the question of “philosophy” for Marx and Marxism. Black questions [...]
February 26th, 2010 | PR web editor | 0 comments | Continued
Rosa Luxemburg’s legacy: A reply to Jerzy Sobotta
Uli vom Hagen THE ASSUMPTION THAT ROSA LUXEMBURG’S CORPSE has significance for the state of the German Left, though perhaps not her body, is tempting. Luxemburg was a Polish socialist involved in a European socialist movement during a time when there was no sovereign Polish state. She was successively a member of the Social Democratic [...]
February 18th, 2010 | PR web editor | 1 comment | Continued
1917
The Decline of the Left in the 20th Century
Toward a Theory of Historical Regression
Chris Cutrone
THE YEAR 1917 is the most enigmatic and hence controversial date in the history of the Left. It is therefore necessarily the focal point for the Platypus philosophy of history of the Left, which seeks to grasp problems in the present as those that had already manifested in the past, but have not yet been overcome. Until we make historical sense of the problems associated with the events and self-conscious actors of 1917, we will be haunted by their legacy. Therefore, whether we are aware of this or not, we are tasked with grappling with 1917, a year marked by the most profound attempt to change the world that has ever taken place.
November 18th, 2009 | PR web editor | 2 comments | Continued