WHO
JAMES TURLEY (CPGB) | BHASKAR SUNKARA (JACOBIN) | BEN BLUMBERG (PLATYPUS)
WHAT
Recently, a series of exchanges between the Communist Party of Great Britain (PCC), the International Bolshevik Tendency, and the Platypus Affiliated Society has unfolded, mapping a field of positions and historical perspectives whose contours trace some of the most provocative contemporary perspectives on Marxism, socialism, and democracy.
With this public forum, speakers will take stock of the points of convergence and divergence that have emerged in order to push the conversation further on key issues such as Left unity, neo-Kautskyism, factionalism, Trotskyism, sectarianism, Leninism and Bolshevism, democratic organization and political program.
WHEN
April 18, 2013 | 7:00-9:00pm
WHERE
NYU Kimmel Center, Room 904 | 60 Washington Square South | New York, New York 10012
WHY
For the self-criticism, self-education, and, ultimately,
the practical reconstitution of a Marxian Left.
A panel event held at New York University on April 18th, 2013.
Transcripted in Platypus Review #57 (Click on banner to see):
Recently, a series of exchanges between the Communist Party of Great Britain (PCC), the International Bolshevik Tendency, and the Platypus Affiliated Society has unfolded, mapping a field of positions and historical perspectives whose contours trace some of the most provocative contemporary perspectives on Marxism, socialism, and democracy.
With this public forum speakers will take stock of the points of convergence and divergence that have emerged in order to push the conversation further on key issues such as Left unity, neo-Kautskyism, factionalism, Trotskyism, sectarianism, Leninism and Bolshevism, democratic organization and political program. The event will feature:
James Turley (CPGB)
Bhaskar Sunkara (Jacobin)
Benjamin Blumberg (Platypus)
Please see the link below for a helpful compilation of debates between the Communist Party of Great Britain (PCC), the International Bolshevik Tendency, and the Platypus Affiliated Society.
The full compilation may be found here.
Teil II der Platypus Lesegruppe zur Einführung in den Marxismus behandelt den Zeitraum der II. Internationale bis zur Frankfurter Schule.
Immer Freitags um 16 – 19 Uhr
Goetheuniversität Frankfurt
Campus Bockenheim: Neue Mensa NM 118.
Beginn: Freitag, 19. April 2013 // Kontakt: frankfurt@platypus1917.org
Neueinsteiger sind herzlich willkommen!
• vorausgesetzte / + empfohlene Texte
Woche 1, 19. April 2013:
• Luxemburg, “Die ‘Junius-Broschüre’ / Krise der Sozialdemokratie” Teil I. (1917)
• J.P. Nettl, “The German Social Democratic Party 1890-1914 as a Political Model” (1965)
• Cliff Slaughter, “What is revolutionary leadership?” (1960)
Woche 2, 26. April:
• Rosa Luxemburg, Sozialreform oder Revolution (1899)
Woche 3, 03. Mai:
• Spartakist-Broschüre, “Lenin und die Avantgardepartei” (1978) [PDF]
Woche 4, 10. Mai:
Woche 5, 17. Mai:
• Leo Trotzki, Ergebnisse und Perspektiven (1906)
+ Tariq Ali and Phil Evans, Introducing Trotsky and Marxism / Trotsky for Beginners (1980)
Woche 6, 24. Mai:
• W.I. Lenin, Staat und Revolution (1917)
Woche 7, 31. Mai:
• Rosa Luxemburg, Was will der Spartakusbund? (1918)
• Rosa Luxemburg, Unser Programm und die politische Situation (1918)
+ Luxemburg, Die Sozialisierung der Gesellschaft (1918)
+ Luxemburg, Die Ordnung herrscht in Berlin (1919)
+ Sebastian Haffner, Die deutsche Revolution 1918/19 (1968)
Woche 8, 7. Juni:
• W.I. Lenin, Der „Linke Radikalismus“, die Kinderkrankheit im Kommunismus (1920)
+ Lenin, Notizen eines Publizisten (1922/24)
Woche 9, 14. Juni:
• Lukács, “Der Standpunkt des Proletariats” (= Teil III. des Kapitels “Die Verdinglichung und das Bewußtsein des Proletariats”) In: Geschichte und Klassenbewusstsein (1923)
Woche 10, 21. Juni:
• Leo Trotzki, 1917 – Die Lehren des Oktobers (1924)
+ Leo Trotzki, Bolschewismus und Stalinismus (1937)
Woche 11, 28. Juni:
ACHTUNG: unplanmäßige Terminänderung – diese Sitzung wird bereits um 10 Uhr früh im Studierendenhaus stattfinden (K1, 2 oder 3).
• Leo Trotzki, Der Todeskampf des Kapitalismus und die Aufgaben der 4. Internationale (Das Übergangsprogramm) (1938)
Woche 12, 05. Juli:
+ Benjamin, Zum Planetarium (aus: Einbahnstraße, 1928)
• Benjamin, Paralipomena zu den Thesen Über den Begriff der Geschichte (In: GS I) (1940)
Woche 13, 12. Juli:
• Theodor Adorno, Reflexionen zur Klassentheorie (1942)
• Adorno, Ausschweifungen (1944–47)
+ Adorno, “Zuneigung”, “Vor Mißbrauch wird gewarnt” und “Zum Ende”, aus: Minima Moralia(1944–47)
+ Horkheimer und Adorno, Diskussion über Theorie und Praxis (1956)
Woche 14. 19. Juli:
+ Adorno, “Zu Subjekt und Objekt” (1969)
• Adorno, “Marginalien zu Theorie und Praxis” (1969)
• Adorno, “Resignation” (1969)
+ Adorno and Herbert Marcuse, correspondence on the German New Left (1969)
+ Esther Leslie, Introduction to the 1969 Adorno-Marcuse correspondence (1999)
+ Adorno, “Spätkapitalismus oder Industriegesellschaft?” (1968)
A plenary presentation by Chris Cutrone, Spencer Leonard, and Richard Rubin, delivered on April 7th, 2012 as part of the 2013 Platypus Affiliated International Convention held at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, upon the trajectories of their personal political development that led to Platypus.
The 2013 annual "President's Report" presented by Platypus International Convention President Chris Cutrone, on the subject of the Left in the 1980s.
