Held June 1, 2018 at the Left Forum at John Jay College in New York.
Panelists:
Spencer Leonard - Platypus Affiliated Society
Terrell Carver - Professor of Political Theory at the University of Bristol
Christoph Lichtenberg - International Bolshevik Tendency
Description:
This year marked the 200th birthday of Karl Marx, than whom, as even his ideological opponent Isaiah Berlin had to admit, "no thinker in the nineteenth century has had so direct, deliberate and powerful an influence upon mankind." This panel seeks to bring together intellectuals committed to exploring Marx’s legacy in this post-Marxist age, those who, once more, seek somehow to bring that legacy to bear upon the world. Accordingly, we want to raise the question: What is the legacy of Marx’s life as a revolutionary intellectual -- that is, the legacy of the political writings and activities he contributed to the workers’ movement for socialism?
Pam Nogales stops by the Zero Books podcast on May 30, 2018 to speak with host Doug Lain on the revolutions of 1848 and the leftist tradition. Pam is a PhD. Candidate of History at New York University, a member
of the Platypus Affiliated Society in Berlin, and a co-host of the Shit Platypus
Says podcast.