The Platypus Affiliated Society

Was waren die Antideutschen? (Teil 1)

Am 2. August 2024 veranstaltete die Platypus Affiliated Society eine Podiumsdiskussion mit Detlef zum Winkel (Autor), Justus Wertmüller (Redaktion Bahamas), Jan Sander (Platypus Affiliated Society) und Jan Kalk (Gesellschaft für kritische Bildung) an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin zum Thema: Was waren die Antideutschen?
Aufgrund der beschränkten Zeichenzahl der deutschsprachigen Platypus Review in Print wird das Transkript dort in zwei Teilen veröffentlicht. Im Folgenden wird der erste Teil mit den Eingangsstatements und der anschließenden Antwortrunde der Diskutanten zu lesen sein. Der zweite Teil des Transkript enthält die Fragerunde und erscheint in der Ausgabe 35 der deutschsprachigen Platypus Review (Januar/Februar 2025).

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Was waren die Antideutschen?

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Why I want Kamala to win

Chris Cutrone

Presented on October 30, 2024, for the panel discussion “The Left and the 2024 election” with Eddie Liger Smith (American Communist Party) and Jorge Mujica, hosted by the Platypus Affiliated Society at the University of Chicago.

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Left perspectives on the Israel–Palestine conflict

Daniel Lazare, Eva Porter, Joe Whitcomb, Norman Finkelstein

On March 11, 2024, at New York University, the Platypus Affiliated Society hosted a panel regarding Left perspectives on the Israel–Palestine conflict. The speakers were Norman Finkelstein (author of The Holocaust Industry (2000) and Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom (2018)), Daniel Lazare (writer at the Weekly Worker, author of The Frozen Republic (1997)), Eva Porter (New School, Students for Justice in Palestine), and Joe Whitcomb (Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), former member of its youth section’s Organizational Committee). The panel was moderated by Oliver Chasan. An edited transcript follows

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Messages in a bottle: An introduction to the Walter Held – Max Horkheimer exchange

Ethan Linehan, Lukas Hedderich

WHAT IS THE ROLE of the intellectual in a revolutionary working-class movement? How does the separation of theory from practice affect the development and utility of Marxism? And how did the twin phenomena of the Frankfurt School and Trotskyism succeed — or fail — in addressing the tasks of their historical moment? These are the questions that lie at the heart of Walter Held’s 1939 essay “Critical theory without political practice?”

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