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 [...]
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Platypus 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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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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Overcoming bourgeois right: An interview with Mel Rothenberg
Spencer Leonard Platypus Review 34 | April 2011 [PDF] On January 31, 2011, Spencer A. Leonard interviewed Mel Rothenberg, author of The Myth of Capitalism Reborn: A Marxist Critique of Theories of Capitalist Restoration in the USSR to discuss the theoretical underpinnings of American Maoism in the 1970s. The interview was aired on the radio [...]
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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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Up in the air: The legacy of the New Communist Movement
An interview with Max Elbaum Spencer A. Leonard Platypus Review 30 | December 2010 On October 17, 2010, Spencer A. Leonard interviewed Max Elbaum, author of Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao, and Che, to discuss the New Communist Movement of the late 1960s and 1970s. The interview was aired during [...]
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Rethinking the New Left
Osha Neumann, Mark Rudd, Tim Wohlforth, Alan Spector Platypus Review 30 | December 2010 On November 9, 2010, Platypus hosted the public forum, “Rethinking the New Left,” moderated by Spencer A. Leonard. The panel consisted of Osha Neumann, a former member of the New York anarchist group in the 1960s, Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers; [...]
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