A response to Richard Rubin Grover Furr Platypus Review 45 | April 2012 [PDF] RICHARD RUBIN ARGUES that “the 1930s were a decade of defeat for the Left.” His essay, “1933,” in the Platypus Review issue on The Decline of the Left in the 20th Century,[1] is an idealist abstraction from real historical events, one founded on [...]
April 1st, 2012 | PR web editor | 9 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "Trotsky"
The legacy of Trotskyism
One of the plenary sessions held at the third annual Platypus Affiliated Society international convention, hosted by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago between April 29–May 1, 2011, set about exploring the legacy of Trotsky’s Marxism. Speakers Mike Macnair of the Communist Party of Great Britain, Bryan Palmer of Trent University, Richard Rubin [...]
August 5th, 2011 | PR web editor | 1 comment | Continued
Trotsky’s theory of art
Bret Schneider Platypus Review 37 | July 2011 [PDF] At its Third Annual Convention, held at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago between April 29-May 1, Platypus hosted a conversation on “Art, Culture, and Politics: Marxist Approaches.” Platypus members Omair Hussain, Lucy Parker, Pac Pobric, and Bret Schneider sought to address “What might [...]
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Trotsky’s Marxism
Ian Morrison Platypus Review 37 | July 2011 [ PDF] At the 2011 Left Forum, held at Pace University in NYC between March 18–21, Platypus hosted a conversation on “Trotsky’s Marxism.” Panelists Ian Morrison (Platypus), Susan Williams (Freedom Socialist Party), and Jason Wright (International Bolshevik Tendency) were asked to address, “What was Trotsky’s contribution to [...]
July 1st, 2011 | PR web editor | 1 comment | 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
Trotsky’s Marxism: “The point, however, is to change it”
Jason Wright Platypus Review 35 | May 2011 [PDF] At the 2011 Left Forum, held at Pace University in NYC between March 18-21 , Platypus hosted a conversation on “Trotsky’s Marxism.” Panelists Ian Morrison (Platypus), Susan Williams (Freedom Socialist Party), and Jason Wright (International Bolshevik Tendency) were asked to address, “What was Trotsky’s contribution to [...]
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Attention to theory: Letter to the editor of Under the Banner of Marxism
Leon Trotsky Platypus Review 34 | April 2011 [PDF] On the occasion of the launch of a new theoretical journal in 1922, Under the Banner of Marxism (Pod Znamenem Marksizma), Lenin singled out the open letter that Trotsky had written to the editors in the first issue, while expressing the hope that the venture would [...]
April 3rd, 2011 | PR web editor | 2 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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The relevance of critical theory to art today
J.M. Bernstein, Lydia Goehr, Gregg Horowitz, and Chris Cutrone Platypus Review 31 | January 2011 On Saturday, November 20, 2010, Platypus hosted a panel entitled “The Relevance of Critical Theory to Art Today” moderated by Chris Mansour at The New School for Social Research in New York. The panel consisted of Philosophy Professors J.M. Bernstein [...]
January 1st, 2011 | PR web editor | 4 comments | Continued
On nationalism: An anti-fascist intervention
Jerzy Sobotta Uli vom Hagen’s response[1] to my article on the current state of the German Left[2] engages in a remarkable apology for its nationalism, which results from its near complete failure to digest the dangerous policies of the German KPD of the 1920s and 30s. With his focus on the events of 1923 and [...]
May 9th, 2010 | PR web editor | 1 comment | Continued