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"How well Kautsky wrote [when he was still a Marxist]!"
— Lenin, "Left-Wing" Communism — An Infantile Disorder (1920)

Presented on a panel with Jamal Abed-Rabbo (Democratic Socialists of America), Patrick Quinn (Solidarity, Democratic Socialists of America) and Earl Silbar at the closing plenary discussion of the 2020 Platypus Affiliated Society International Convention, April 4, 2020.
ACCORDING TO MARX, capitalism is the contradiction of bourgeois social relations and industrial forces of production. The effect of this self-contradiction of bourgeois society in industrial production is the division of capital and labor.
Presented at a Platypus teach-in on the 150th anniversary of Lenin’s birth, April 22, 2020.
On February 21st, 2020, the Platypus Affiliated Society at University of California: Santa Cruz hosted a panel discussion with Mike Rotkin, Kevin Kearney, Dayton Andrews (Revolutionary United Front), and Bill Anderson. What follows is an edited transcript of the event.