Spencer A. Leonard with Edward Remus Platypus Review 51 | November 2012 On November 3, 2012, Spencer A. Leonard interviewed 2012 Green Party candidate Jill Stein. What follows is an edited transcript of the interview. Spencer Leonard: You have written that, “It is time for the Left to be realistic about how it is going [...]
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Election 2012: An interview with Cornel West
Watson Ladd and Spencer A. Leonard Platypus Review 51 | November 2012 Last May, the Platypus Affiliated Society hosted a conversation on the campus of the University of Chicago between Carl Dix of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA and Cornel West, a veteran member of the Democratic Socialists of America, the co-author of The Rich [...]
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Election 2012: An interview with Luis J. Rodriguez
Spencer A. Leonard and Edward Remus Platypus Review 51 | November 2012 On September 11, 2012 the radio program Radical Minds on WHPK (88.5 FM) broadcast an interview with Luis J. Rodriguez. The interview was conducted by Edward Remus and Spencer A. Leonard of the Platypus Affiliated Society. Rodriguez has forty years of experience as [...]
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“These petrified relations must be forced to dance”: An interview with Dick Howard
Douglas La Rocca and Spencer A. Leonard Platypus Review 50 | October 2012 On August 22, 2012, Douglas La Rocca and Spencer A. Leonard of Platypus interviewed Dick Howard, professor emeritus at Stony Brook University and the author of The Specter of Democracy: What Marx and Marxists Haven’t Understood and Why, among other books. What follows [...]
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The birth of a revolution?
An interview with Mary Gabriel on Love and Capital Spencer A. Leonard Platypus Review 47 | June 2012 On February 28, 2012, the radio program Radical Minds on WHPK-FM Chicago broadcast an interview with Mary Gabriel, the author of Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution (New York: Little, Brown and [...]
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Splits, regroupments, war, and revolution in Germany, 1914–1920: A conversation with Ben Lewis
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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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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“Thirty years of counter-revolution”: An interview with Clyde Young
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 [...]
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Black nationalism and the legacy of Malcolm X: An interview with Michael Dawson
Spencer A. Leonard Platypus Review 41 | November 2011 [PDF] Last fall, editor Spencer A. Leonard interviewed Michael Dawson, Director of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture at the University of Chicago. The interview, which centered around a discussion of Manning Marable’s new biography of Malcolm X, was broadcast on September [...]
November 1st, 2011 | PR web editor | 0 comments | ContinuedPlatypus at Communist Party of Great Britain (PCC) Communist University 2011, London
Communist University took place August 13-20, 2011 http://cpgb.wordpress.com/ Goldsmiths, University of London Raymont Hall 63 Wickham Road London SE4 1LX Platypus Affiliated Society members presented as follows: Tuesday, August 16, 4:45PM-7PM • Chris Cutrone, “Capital in history: Marxism and the modern philosophy of freedom” audio recording Marx on “becoming” [PDF handout] Friday, August 19, 10AM-12:30PM [...]
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