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Public Fora

Freedom in the Antropocene (Boston, 2/7/20)
February 7, 2020
After The Election: What's Left? (LSE, 29/1/20)
January 29, 2020
Imperialism and the Left (UChicago, 1.16.20)
January 16, 2020
Freedom in the Anthropocene (Corvallis, 1.16.20)
January 16, 2020
Sex and the Left (Bay Area, 8.12.19)
December 8, 2019
30 Years of 1989: The end of history? (Corvallis, 10.17.19)
October 17, 2019
Sex and the Left (Goldsmiths, 10.10.19)
October 10, 2019
"Does Marxism Need a Theory of Power?" @ Marx NU Conference (Copenhagen, 05.10.19)
October 5, 2019
Freedom In The Anthropocene (George Mason, 10.2.19)
October 2, 2019
The New Deal and American Socialism (Left Forum 2019)
June 30, 2019
Beyond Sect or Movement: What is a Political Center? (Left Forum 2019)
June 30, 2019
The 3 Rs: Reform, Revolution, and "Resistance" (Corvallis)
April 25, 2019
What was the German Revolution of 1918-19? (Houston)
April 19, 2019
Democracy and the Left (Sheffield)
April 12, 2019
[04.11.2019] What Does Climate Change? - New York
April 12, 2019
The Crisis of Neoliberalism in the EU (Platypus 2019 International Convention)
April 5, 2019
Closing plenary: Redeeming the 20th Century (Platypus 2019 International Convention)
April 5, 2019
Opening plenary: 30 Years of 1989: The end of history? (Platypus 2019 International Convention)
April 4, 2019
What is the role of media for the Left? (Houston)
April 2, 2019
Democracy and the Left (London)
March 28, 2019
Democracy and the Left (Philadelphia)
March 21, 2019
Was war die deutsche Revolution von 1918? (Frankfurt)
December 17, 2018
50 Jahre 1968 (Wien)
October 17, 2018
50 years of 1968 (Bay Area)
October 10, 2018
What is Socialism?: International social democracy (Chicago)
October 5, 2018
What Is Socialism?: International social democracy (Corvallis)
September 27, 2018
Podiumsdiskussion: 50 Jahre 1968 (Frankfurt)
September 15, 2018
Podiumsdiskussion: Die Wohnraumfrage und die Linke [11.06.2018]
September 14, 2018
What Is Socialism?: International social democracy (New York)
September 8, 2018
Politik der Arbeit Podiumsdiskussion (Wien)
August 4, 2018
The 2nd Amendment and the Left (Houston)
June 9, 2018
"Has 'the Left' Acommodated Trump (and Putin)?: A Debate" - MHI panel at Left Forum 2018
June 6, 2018
What is the DSA? panel at the Left Forum 2018
June 6, 2018
Marx@200 at the Left Forum 2018 (New York)
June 1, 2018
2nd Amendment and the Left (Berkeley)
May 19, 2018
The 2nd Amendment and the Left (Santa Cruz)
May 11, 2018
Closing Plenary: President’s Report — 1918-2018: The Century of Counterrevolution - Platypus 2018 International Convention
April 8, 2018
History of the Platypus Critique: Platypus 2018 International Convention
April 7, 2018
Rise of the Far-Right in Europe: Platypus 2018 International Convention
April 6, 2018
Opening Plenary: 50 Years of 1968 - Platypus 2018 International Convention
April 6, 2018
No Nazis on Rocky Top?: Anti-racism in the age of Trump (Knoxville, 4.27.18)
March 21, 2018
What is socialism?: International social democracy (Berkeley)
March 10, 2018
What is the Future of Socialism? - 4th Annual European Conference (London)
February 18, 2018
Marxism and Feminism - 4th Annual European Conference (London)
February 17, 2018
Housing Crisis Or Capitalist Crisis: Anti-Gentrification And The Left - 4th Annual European Conference (London)
February 17, 2018
50 Years After '68 - 4th Annual European Conference (London)
February 16, 2018
Anti-Racism In The Age Of Trump And Brexit - 4th Annual European Conference (London)
February 15, 2018
1917-2017: 100 Jahre Oktoberrevolution (Wien)
December 14, 2017
[Audio] Podiumsdiskussion: Was ist Sozialismus? (Frankfurt)
December 7, 2017
Η κρίση του νεοφιλελευθερισμού και η Αριστερά
December 5, 2017
Anti-fascism in the Age of Trump (Santa Cruz)
November 15, 2017
1917 - 2017: 100 Jahre Oktoberrevolution (Frankfurt)
November 13, 2017
1917-2017: The 100th Anniversary of the October Revolution (Chicago)
November 6, 2017
The Sickness of Labourism (London)
October 19, 2017
Anti-fascism in the age of Trump (Berkeley)
October 17, 2017
Anti-fascism in the Age of Trump (Chicago)
October 2, 2017
Anti-fascism in the Age of Trump (Houston)
September 16, 2017
Ο θάνατος της σοσιαλδημοκρατίας
June 24, 2017
Ideologjitë Radikale Sot: Marksizmi dhe Anarkizmi
May 8, 2017
Third Parties and the Left: Problems and Prospects (Knoxville, 4.26.17)
April 26, 2017
Closing plenary: 1917-2017: 100 years after the Russian Revolution - Platypus 2017 International Convention
April 8, 2017
Labor and the State: Platypus 2017 International Convention
April 8, 2017
Liberalism and Socialism: Platypus 2017 International Convention
April 8, 2017
Neoliberalism and its Discontents: Platypus 2017 International Convention
April 7, 2017
Opening plenary: Marxism in the Age of Trump - Platypus 2017 International Convention
April 7, 2017
What is the European Union and should we be against it?: Platypus 2017 International Convention
April 7, 2017
What Is Socialism?: International social democracy (London)
March 23, 2017
The Crisis Of Neoliberalism, Platypus 3rd European Conference, Vienna
March 14, 2017
Geduld Und Theorie. Zur Politik Der Kritischen Theorie Heute. Platypus 3rd European Conference, Vienna
March 14, 2017
The Politics Of Critical Theory, Platypus 3rd European Conference, Vienna
March 14, 2017
[Audio] Podiumsdiskussion: Die Politik der Arbeit (Frankfurt)
February 2, 2017
[11.30.16] The Crisis Of Neoliberalism - London
February 2, 2017
[12.04.16] The Politics Of Work - Houston
February 2, 2017
After the Elections: The Future of the Status Quo
February 2, 2017
Immigration and the Left (Chicago)
November 8, 2016
[10.23.16] Immigration And The Left
October 26, 2016
[10.03.16] Third Parties and the Left: Problems and Prospects
October 26, 2016
[10.11.16] Art And The Commodity Form, London
October 17, 2016
Γυναίκες, η διαρκέστερη επανάσταση 
July 3, 2016
Podiumsdiskussion vom 16.06.2016: Was ist Imperialismus? Warum sollten wir dagegen sein?
June 24, 2016
Closing plenary: The Death of Social Democracy: Platypus 2016 convention
June 18, 2016
Panel: Black Politics and the American Left: Platypus 2016 convention
June 18, 2016
Panel: Women: the Longest Revolution?: Platypus 2016 convention
June 18, 2016
Exit Left or no Brexit?
June 9, 2016
Opening plenary: What is socialism? International social democracy: Platypus 2016 convention
May 31, 2016
Was ist politische Partei für die Linke? (Wien)
May 28, 2016
Η θέση της Αριστεράς απέναντι στην Ε.Ε.
May 5, 2016
Socialism, Democracy, Social Democracy (London)
February 12, 2016
[11.04.2015] Women: The Longest Revolution at Loyola University Chicago
December 30, 2015
[11.07.2015] What is a political Party for the Left? - A Panel Discussion at II European Conference
December 16, 2015
[12.01.2015] What Does Climate Change - New York
December 11, 2015
[11.16.2015] What Does Climate Change – Chicago
November 24, 2015
[11.07.2015] Socialism Democracy Social Democracy - A Panel Discussion at II European Conference
November 7, 2015
[11.07.2015] What is the European Union and should we be against it? - A Panel Discussion at II European Conference
November 7, 2015
[11.07.2015] Women: The Longest Revolution? - A Panel Discussion at II European Conference in Frankfurt
November 7, 2015
[10.23.2015] What Does Climate Change - London
October 24, 2015
[10.15.2015] Electoral Politics and the Left (Halifax)
October 23, 2015
Podiumsdiskussion: Was ist eine linke, politische Organisation?
July 30, 2015
Δημοψήφισμα και Αριστερά
July 10, 2015
[6.4.2015] What is political party for the Left?: A Panel Discussion - London Platypus
June 6, 2015
Η πολιτική της εργασίας
May 29, 2015
[5.20.2015] Black Politics and State Violence: A Panel Discussion - UCSC
May 22, 2015
[5.21.2015] Black Politics and State Violence: A Panel Discussion - University of Chicago
May 22, 2015
What is Political Party For The Left?
April 22, 2015
Electoral Politics And The Left
April 22, 2015
Democracy and the Left
April 22, 2015
The American Left And The "Black Question"
April 22, 2015
Can there be a working class culture and experience?
April 22, 2015
Neoliberalism and its Discontents
April 22, 2015
The Politics Of International Student Protest (Chicago)
April 16, 2015
[3.11.15] Black Politics And State Violence: A Panel Discussion - School of Visual Arts
March 15, 2015
Τι είναι πολιτικό κόμμα για την Αριστερά;
March 13, 2015
[2.17.2015] 25 years of 1989 NYC
February 26, 2015
Art and the Commodity Form (Chicago)
February 7, 2015
[1.29.2015] Marxism Anarchism Montreal
February 6, 2015
Podiumsdiskussion: Das Jahr 1989 und seine Bedeutung für die Linke
February 6, 2015
Social Movement Unionism (Santa Cruz)
February 3, 2015
What is Political Party for the Left? Halifax, 21 January 2015
January 24, 2015
Radical Ideologies Today: Anarchism and Marxism, London, 20th November 2014
January 5, 2015
Radical Ideologies Today: Marxism and Anarchism (University of Chicago) 11.20.2014
December 24, 2014
Politics of the Student Left, Halifax
December 8, 2014
"Reform, Revolution, Resistance:" The Problematic Forms of Anti-Capitalism Today
December 8, 2014
Can there be a working class culture and experience?
December 7, 2014
Podiumsdiskussion: Brauchen wir eine linke Einheit?
November 9, 2014
Η πολιτική του αντιφασισμού
November 5, 2014
The Many Deaths of Art: A Panel Discussion
October 7, 2014
Is there a need for Left Unity?
July 20, 2014
What is Platypus Doing?
July 18, 2014
Podiumsdiskussion: Was war neu an der „Neuen Linken“?
June 11, 2014
Μαρξισμός-Αναρχισμός (Αθήνα)
June 6, 2014
Sexual Liberation, Left Forum 2014, 6.1.14
June 1, 2014
Art And Class, Left Forum 2014, 5.31.14
May 31, 2014
Politics of Work, Left Forum 2014, 5.31.14
May 31, 2014
Ιμπεριαλισμός (συζήτηση για την ιστορική του σημασία και την πολιτική του επικαιρότητα)
May 30, 2014
Τρότσκι και τροτσκισμός
April 30, 2014
The Left After the Crisis
April 7, 2014
Revolutionary Politics and Thought
April 6, 2014
The Concept of Left and Right
April 5, 2014
150 Years after the First International: A Critical History
April 5, 2014
Marxism and Anarchism, Chicago, 4.5.14
April 5, 2014
Europe, Its Crisis, And The Global Left
April 5, 2014
Tony Cliff's Legacy Today: International Socialism and the Tradition of Lenin and Trotsky
April 4, 2014
Radical Ideologies Today: Marxism and Anarchism (Knoxville, 3.25.14)
March 26, 2014
The Politics of Work, London, 3.21.14
March 22, 2014
Radical Ideologies Today: Marxism and Anarchism, Chicago, 3.21.14
March 21, 2014
[3.12.14] Art and Commodity Form
March 12, 2014
Marxism and Anarchism: Radical Ideologies Today, Stony Brook, 3.5.14
March 5, 2014
Democracy and the Left, New York, 2.25.14
February 25, 2014
Marxism and Anarchism: Radical Ideologies Today, Halifax, 2.1.14
February 1, 2014
Freedom in the Anthropocene, Halifax, 1.30.14
January 30, 2014
The Politics of Work, Toronto, 1.28.14
January 28, 2014
Radikale linke Strömungen im 21. Jahrhundert: Zum Verhältnis von Anarchismus und Marxismus
January 28, 2014
Freedom in the Anthropocene, Toronto, 1.15.14
January 15, 2014
Μαρξισμός-Αναρχισμός (Θεσσαλονίκη)
December 17, 2013
Freedom in the Anthropocene, London, 11.20.13
December 15, 2013
Democracy and the Left, Chicago, 11.23.13
November 23, 2013
What is Trotskyism? (Pittsburgh)
November 23, 2013
Freedom in the Anthropocene, Chicago, 11.19.13
November 19, 2013
The Politics of Work, Chicago, 11.5.13
November 6, 2013
The Future of the Status Quo: The Left After the Nova Scotia Election
October 9, 2013
The Politics of Work, Halifax, 10.2.13
October 2, 2013
The Politics of Work, UMass Amherst, 9.20.13
September 20, 2013
Social Struggles, Solidarity, and The Left
June 13, 2013
Revolution without Marx? Rousseau and his followers for the Left, Left Forum 2013, 6.9.13
June 9, 2013
Art and the Commodity Form, Left Forum 2013, 6.8.13
June 8, 2013
Linke Perspektiven zur Eurokrise – Blockupy und andere Antworten
June 5, 2013
Art and the Commodity Form, Halifax, 5.24.13
May 24, 2013
Αντίσταση, Μεταρρύθμιση, Επανάσταση (Θεσσαλονίκη)
May 12, 2013
Black Politics in the Age of Obama [Media Recording]
May 6, 2013
Antifaschismus – zur Geschichte und Gehalt eines problematischen Kampfbegriffs (Frankfurt)
April 30, 2013
Conversations on the Left: James Turley (CPGB), Bhaskar Sunkara (Jacobin), and Ben Blumberg (Platypus) [Media Recording]
April 18, 2013
2013 Platypus International Convention: Platypus Plenary
April 7, 2013
2013 Platypus International Convention: President's Report
April 7, 2013
2013 Platypus International Convention Closing Plenary: "Program" and "Utopia"
April 6, 2013
Marx and “Wertkritik” [Media Recording]
April 6, 2013
Capital, History and Environmental Politics
April 6, 2013
The Labor Left After Politics and After Utopia
April 6, 2013
What is Imperialism? (What Now?)
April 6, 2013
2013 Platypus International Convention Opening Plenary: The Left in Power?
April 5, 2013
Religion and the Left, Halifax, 3.13.13
March 13, 2013
Aging in the Afterlife: The Many Deaths of Art
February 23, 2013
Ruins of Modernity: The Failure of Revolutionary Architecture in the Twentieth Century
February 7, 2013
Δημοκρατία και Αριστερά (Θεσσαλονίκη)
December 10, 2012
The Future of the Status Quo: The Left after the Election
December 7, 2012
Demokratie und linke Bewegungen (Frankfurt)
December 7, 2012
Radical Interpretations of the Present Crisis, Chicago, 12.3.12
December 4, 2012
Radical Interpretations of the Present Crisis, London, 12.1.12
December 2, 2012
In Reflection Upon Fifty Issues: A Presentation at the Platypus Review Issue No. 50 Launch Party
November 16, 2012
Radical Interpretations of the Present Crisis, NYC, 11.14.12
November 15, 2012
Democracy and the Left, Halifax, 11.14.12
November 15, 2012
A Year, a Month, and a Day: Looking Back on Occupy
October 19, 2012
Which Way Forward for Sexual Liberation?: Halifax
September 14, 2012
Reform, Revolution, Widerstand, Frankfurt
June 25, 2012
What's next for the Quebec Left? I Qu'adviendra-t-il de la Gauche québecoise?
June 18, 2012
The 3 Rs: Reform, Revolution and Resistance, London
June 13, 2012
The 3 Rs: Reform, Revolution, and Resistance, Thessaloniki
May 30, 2012
The Day After: What is the #Occupy Movement? NYC III
May 2, 2012
The 3 Rs: Reform, Revolution, and Resistance, NYC
April 26, 2012
The 3 Rs: Reform, Revolution, and Resistance, Boston
April 16, 2012
Why I Joined Platypus
April 12, 2012
Responses to the Global Economic Downturn
April 2, 2012
G8 and NATO: Rulers, Domination, and Emancipation
April 1, 2012
Changes in Art and Society: A View From the Present [Media Recording]
March 31, 2012
The '90s and '00s Left Today
March 31, 2012
Defining Democracy: The Labor Movement and #Occupy
March 31, 2012
Lenin and the Marxist Left after #Occupy
March 31, 2012
Whence Anarchism? The Historical Conjuncture of #Occupy
March 31, 2012
Third Parties and the Left: Problems and Prospects
March 19, 2012
Technology, Un/Employment, and the Left: From Future Shock to OWS
March 18, 2012
The Environmentalism of Occupy
March 18, 2012
2011, 1999, 1968 — and 2012? The history of the Left and #Occupy
March 18, 2012
Arab Spring into Winter? Challenges to the Left One Year On
March 18, 2012
The Significance of Art in the Occupy Movement
March 18, 2012
Finance Capital and Occupy: Marxist Perspectives
March 18, 2012
What is the #Occupy Movement? London I
March 17, 2012
The 3 Rs: Reform, Revolution, and Resistance, Toronto
March 15, 2012
The 3 Rs: Reform, Revolution, and Resistance, Dalhousie
January 20, 2012
What is the #Occupy Movement? Cambridge I
December 16, 2011
What is the #Occupy Movement? NYC II [Media Recording]
December 9, 2011
Crisis of the Left: Thessaloniki
November 23, 2011
Crisis of the Left: New York City
November 16, 2011
What is the #Occupy Movement? Halifax I
November 16, 2011
Crisis of the Left: Chicago
October 28, 2011
What is the #Occupy Movement? NYC I
October 28, 2011
Poduimsdiskussion: Hosting the conversation on the Death of the Left
August 28, 2011
What's left of the Left? Zur Situation der radikalen Linke in den USA
August 8, 2011
Introduction to Platypus at Naturfreundejugend Berlin Sommercamp
August 8, 2011
The Marxism of Second International Radicalism: Lenin, Luxemburg, and Trotsky
June 22, 2011
Marxism and the Bourgeois Revolution
June 20, 2011
Platypus Discussion of Mike Macnair's Critique
June 4, 2011
The Marxist turn: The New Left in the 1970s [Media Recording]
May 19, 2011
What is the Platypus Critique?
May 1, 2011
The Legacy of Trotskyism [Media Recording]
May 1, 2011
Badiou and Post-Maoism: Marxism and Communism Today
April 30, 2011
Art, Culture, and Politics: Marxist Approaches [Media Recording]
April 30, 2011
The Politics of Critical Theory [Media Recording]
April 29, 2011
Cultural Studies in the Academy: Towards a Critique of the Present Moment
March 24, 2011
Marx and Engel's Marxism
March 20, 2011
Lukacs' Marxism [Media Recording]
March 19, 2011
Trotsky's Marxism [Media Recording]
March 19, 2011
The Marxism of Rosa Luxemburg [Media Recording]
March 19, 2011
Lenin's Marxism [Media Recording]
March 19, 2011
Debating Alain Badiou's "€œPolitics of Emancipation": An Exchange on Communism and the Historical Moment
March 19, 2011
The Bourgeois Revolution: From Marx's Point of View
March 19, 2011
Aesthetics in Protest [Media Recording]
March 19, 2011
What is Critique? [Media Recording]
November 20, 2010
"A Black Man Speaks of Marx": The Sartre-Fanon Dialogues of the 1940s and 1950s.
November 17, 2010
Marxism and Israel: Left Perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
November 15, 2010
Rethinking the New Left
November 9, 2010
Which Way Forward for Sexual Liberation? [Media Recording]
November 8, 2010
Ideology and the Student Left [Media Recording]
June 10, 2010
The Platypus Experience: Perspectives From Three Generations
May 30, 2010
New Left Regress: The Militant Turn in the Late 1960s
May 29, 2010
The Imperialism Question and the Twentieth Century
May 28, 2010
The Green Movement and the Left: Prospects for Democracy in Iran
March 20, 2010
Politics of the Contemporary American Student Left
March 20, 2010
The American Left and the "Black Question:" from Politics to Protest to the Post-political [Media Recording]
March 20, 2010
The Left and Prospects for Democracy in the Middle East: Iraq
March 20, 2010
Which Way Forward for Palestinian Liberation? [Media Recording]
February 23, 2010
Workers in a Time of War: Pakistan and the Crisis of the International Labor Movement
December 6, 2009
The Platypus Synthesis: History, Theory, and Practice [Media Recording]
June 14, 2009
Left Behind: The Working Class in Crisis [Media Recording]
April 23, 2009
Dialectics of Defeat: Towards a Theory of Historical Regression [Media Recording]
April 18, 2009
Politics of the Contemporary Student Left: Hopes and Failures [Media Recording]
April 18, 2009
Progress or Regress? The Future of the Left under Obama [Media Recording]
December 6, 2008
What is a Movement?: A discussion on the Meaning and Direction of Left Political “Movements” Historically and Today [Media Recording]
October 16, 2008
Immigrants Rights and the Labor Movement
April 23, 2008
Israel-Palestine and the One State Solution
March 8, 2008
The Failure of Pakistan: Perspectives on the crisis, its past, present, and future
February 2, 2008
The 3 Rs: Reform, Revolution, and “Resistance:” The Problematic Forms of “Anticapitalism” Today [Media Recording]
November 6, 2007
Pedagogical Factory: How We Learn – Building an Educated City
August 28, 2007
"Imperialism": What is it? Why Should We Be Against It? [Media Recording]
January 30, 2007
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