Platypus Affiliated Society member Chris Cutrone on RT's Crosstalk, hosted by Peter Lavelle, on the global economic crisis.
“The IMF has released a report that predicts the hoped-for global economic growth is again endangered. Why is this happening? Why has the Great Recession come back so early? Did it ever end? Has austerity made things worse? And is there a way to avoid the ‘fiscal cliff’ issue in Washington? CrossTalking with Seijiro Takeshita (Mizuho International, London), Martin Hennecke (Tyche Group, Hong Kong) and Chris Cutrone (School of the Art Institute of Chicago).” The impasse of policy, stimulus vs. austerity, and the question of different models for capitalism and the need for socialism.
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Thursday | October 18, 2012 | 7-9 PM
// Kimmel Center, Room 914 NYU
// 60 Washington Square S.
// New York, NY
A year, a month, and a day ago marked the official beginning of an ostensibly new, post-Obama phase of radical politics in America.
The longer prehistory of Occupy has been variously traced back to anti-austerity protests in Europe, the Arab Spring, and the London riots — with some of its roots stretching all the way to alter-globalization in the late 1990s. Occupy can be understood both in this broader context of radicalization going on throughout the world at the time and as a phenomenon in its own right.
Today Occupy stands at a crossroads. Our moment provides a brief vantage point from which one might reflect upon what the Occupy movement has been to date (its victories, its failures, its enduring impact), whether it still exists at present, and — if so so — what are the tasks that remain for it to fulfill moving forward?
A little over a month on from #S17, and only three weeks before the US elections, we in the Platypus Affiliated Society thus ask our panelists to consider:
1. What kinds of social transformation has Occupy brought about? What kinds of social conflicts remain unresolved? Where has it triumphed, and where has it fallen short?
2. How, if at all, has Occupy changed your political outlook? Has it modified the kinds of goals you hope to achieve through your activism? And has your approach toward organizing a mass movement in order to achieve these goals shifted at all?
3. What sort of new political possibilities has Occupy opened up that beforehand seemed impossible? Conversely, is there anything once felt had been politically possible at Occupy's outset but now no longer feel is possible?
This event is free and open to the public.
HOSTED BY:
The Platypus Affiliated Society, established in December 2006, organizes reading groups, public fora, research and journalism focused on problems and tasks inherited from the “Old” (1920s-30s), “New” (1960s-70s) and post-political (1980s-90s) Left for the possibilities of emancipatory politics today.
For a media index of past Platypus events on Occupy, feel free to check out our online archive of video, audio, and writings on the movement.
MODERATOR:
Lisa Montanarelli (Writers for the 99%, Platypus Affiliated Society) is an author and activist who participated in the occupation of Zuccotti Park and collaborated with more than 50 other writers and researchers on the book Occupying Wall Street. She has since become a member of Platypus.
FEATURED PANELISTS:
Fritz Tucker (Occupier, journalist) is a native Brooklynite, writer, activist, theorist, and researcher of people's movements the world over, from the US to Nepal. Last year he authored the article "A Chill Descends on Occupy Wall Street: The Leaders of an Allegedly Leaderless Movement."
Victoria Sobel (Media & Finance working groups) is an activist and major organizer within the Occupy movement in New York, especially during its two months in Zuccotti Park.
Nicholas Mirzoeff (Strike Debt, NYU) is professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. and lead organizer of Strike Debt, a prominent outgrowth of the Occupy movement.
David Haack (Occupy Your Workplace) is an underemployed artist an anticorporate activist who lives in New York City. He is also a leading organizer within the Occupy Your Workplace working group, and author of "How the Occupy movement won me over" (published in Britain's The Guardian) and "The New Left Zombie is Dead! Long Live Occupy!" (published in Platypus Review 45).
Victoria Campbell (Occupier, Pacifica's Occupy Wall Street Radio show on WBAI) is an artist and activist involved with Occupy Wall Street, also a host on Pacifica's Occupy Wall Street Radio show.
Poster for "A Year, a Month, and a Day: Looking back on Occupy"
I. Was ist die “Linke?” — Was ist “Marxismus?”
Lesekreis Wintersemester 2012/13
Wöchentlich Freitags um 14 Uhr.
Goetheuniversität Frankfurt
Ort: AfE-Turm 2104
Campus Bockenheim, Robert-Mayer-Straße 1, 60325 Frankfurt am Main
Auf Facebook
Erste Sitzung: 19. Oktober
• vorausgesetzte / + empfohlene Texte
Woche 1.: 19.10.2012
• Inschriften von James Miller (über Jean-Jacques Rousseau) und Louis Menand (über Edmund Wilson) über moderne Geschichte und Freiheit
• Chris Cutrone, “Capital in history” (2008) [voläufige Übersetzung auf detutsch]
• Cutrone, “The Marxist hypothesis” (2010)
+ Capital in history timeline and chart of terms
Woche 2.: 26.10.2012
• Immanuel Kant, “Idee zu einer allgemeinen Geschichte in weltbürgerlicher Absicht” und “Was ist Aufklärung?” (1784)
• Benjamin Constant, “The liberty of the ancients compared with that of the moderns” (1819)(Deutsch: Benjamin Constant. Über die Freiheit der Alten im Vergleich zu der der Heutigen (1819), in: Werke, herausgegeben von Alex Blaeschke, Lothar Gall, Propyläen, Berlin, 1972, Bd. 4, S.363-396.) AUF DEUTSCH.
+ Jean-Jacques Rousseau,Abhandlung über den Ursprung und die Grundlagen der Ungleichheit unter den Menschen (1754)
+ Rousseau, Auszüge aus Der Gesellschaftsvertrag (1762) (Erstes Buch: Kap. 5 – 9, Zweites Buch: Kap. 1 – 4)
Woche 3.: 02.11.2012
• Max Horkheimer, Auszüge aus Dämmerung (1926–31)
• Adorno, “Ausschweifungen” (1944–47) (GS4:297-300, Anhang in Minima Moralia)
Woche 4.: 09.11.2012
• Leszek Kolakowski, “Der Sinn des Begriffes ‘Linke’” (1968)
• Karl Marx, Auszug aus den Anmerkungen zur Doktordissertation (1839–41) [MEW 40, S. 325 - 331]
• Marx, Brief von Marx an Arnold Ruge ( September 1843)
Woche 5.: 16.11.2012
Achtung: Sitzung hat sich geändert.
• Marx and Friedrich Engels, Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei (1848)
• Marx, Ansprache der Zentralbehörde an den Bund (1850)
Woche 6.: 23.11.2012
• Marx, Auszüge aus Ökonomisch-philosophische Manuskripte (1844): Die entfremdete Arbeit;Privateigentum und Kommunismus; Bedürfnis, Produktion und Arbeitsteilung (bis |XXI||, MEW 40:556 [exclusiv ||XXXIV|| Die Grundrente]).
Woche 7.: 30.11.2012
• Engels, Einleitung zu Karl Marx’ “Klassenkämpfe in Frankreich 1848 bis 1850″ (1895)
• Marx, Auszüge aus Die Klassenkämpfe in Frankreich 1848 bis 1850 (1850) [MEW Bd. 7: Teil I (S.11-34), S. 87-90, S.97-98]
• Marx, Auszüge aus Der achtzehnte Brumaire des Louis Napoleon (1852) [Teil I und VII]
Woche 8.: 07.12.2012
+ Karl Korsch, “The Marxism of the First International” (1924)
• Marx, Inauguraladresse der Internationalen Arbeiter-Assoziation (1864)
• Marx, Auszüge aus Der Bürgerkrieg in Frankreich [Teil III und IV] (1871, mit Engels Einleitung von 1891)
Woche 9.: 14.12.2012
+ Korsch, Einleitung zu Marx, Randglossen zum Programm der deutschen Arbeiterpartei (1922)
• Marx, Kritik des Gothaer Programms (1875)
• Marx, Einleitung zum Programm der französischen Arbeiterpartei (1880) [Über den Entwurf]
Woche 10.: 18.01.2013
• Marx, Einleitung zur Kritik der Politischen Ökonomie (1857–61) [MEW Bd. 13, S.615-641]
• Marx, Kapital Bd. I, Kap. 1 Teil. 4 “Der Fetischcharakter der Ware und sein Geheimnis” (1867) [MEW Bd. 23, S.85-98]
Woche 11.: 25.01.2013
• Georg Lukács, “Das Phänomen der Verdinglichung” (Teil I des Kapitels “Die Verdinglichung und das Bewusstsein des Proletariats,” Geschichte und Klassenbewusstsein (1923)
Woche 12.: 01.02.2013
• Lukács, Vorwort von 1922, “Was ist orthodoxer Marxismus?” (1919), “Klassenbewusstsein” (1920), Geschichte und Klassenbewusstsein (1923)
+ Marx, Vorwort zur ersten Auflage und Nachwort zur zweiten Auflage (1873) des Kapitals (1867)
Woche 13.: 08.02.2013
• Korsch, “Marxismus und Philosophie” (1923) [in der verlinkten Ausgabe S.84-160]
+ Karl Marx, Auszug aus den Anmerkungen zur Doktordissertation (1839–41) [MEW 40, S. 325 - 331] + Marx, Brief von Marx an Arnold Ruge ( September 1843)
Literatur für die Semesterferien
• Spartakist-Broschüre, “Lenin und die Avantgardepartei” (1978) [PDF] • Sebastian Haffner, “Die deutsche Revolution 1918/19” (1968)
