Held on February 15, 2018 from 19:00-21:00 in RHB 137a of Goldsmiths, University of London, as part of the fourth annual Platypus European Conference, 50 Years After '68: Does Socialism Have a Future? The discussion was moderated by Sophia Freeman.
Speakers:
Mataio Austin Dean (Student Activist, UCL)
Gregor Baszak (Researcher, Black literature and politics, University of Illinois, Chicago; Platypus)
Robert Borba (Revolutionary Communist Party USA)
Description:
Beneath a consensus of avowed anti-racism, the Left remains conflicted about whether and how to politicise race, often placing its hopes in the Democratic and Labour Parties to vouch for better democratic representation of the underprivileged. How could the politics of anti-racism advanced the struggle for socialism and the pursuit of freedom given the recent political changes?
Radical Minds is a show that airs every Thursday at 2 PM on WHPK 88.5 FM Chicago. Aired February 8th, 2018, this episode features an interview with Adrián M, a member of YDSA at the University of Chicago, conducted by your hosts, Erin Hagood and Stephanie Gomez.
Radical Minds is a show that airs every Thursday at 2 PM on WHPK 88.5 FM Chicago. Aired February 8th, 2018, this episode features an interview with Kate Evans (author of 'Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg') conducted by your hosts, Erin Hagood and Stephanie Gomez.
** note: some of the audio from the beginning of the interview is missing, due to some technical difficulties while recording this episode in the studio
On this episode we discuss:
(1) The #metoo phenomena and the French Anti-#MeToo Manifesto with Chicago member, Carrie Graham and the London School of Economics' Platypus chapter head, Nunzia Faez
www.worldcrunch.com/opinion-analysi…therine-deneuve
Also mentioned in this segment were:
- Gracchus Babeuf, "The Conspiracy of the Equals" (1796)
www.marxists.org/history/france/r…equals/index.htm
- Theodor W. Adorno, "Sexual Taboos and the Law Today" (1963)
platypus1917.org/wp-content/uploa…ltaboostoday.pdf
(2) Platypus Review interview with Sascha Staničić, “Fighting instead of managing capitalism” and the state of the German Left, with Stefan Hain, the head of our Berlin chapter.
platypus1917.org/2017/12/02/fight…sascha-stanicic/
(3) We take stock of the first year of the Trump presidency and discuss the new title from the Platypus Review Publishers, "Marxism in the Age of Trump: Articles from the Platypus Review 2015–2017," with president of the Platypus Affiliated Society and author, Chris Cutrone.
www.amazon.com/Marxism-Age-Trump…17/dp/0996206132/
Hosted by Pam C. Nogales C. & Laurie Rojas
From the Zero Books website (Jan, 18, 2018):
" Chris Cutrone is the founder and President of the Platypus Affiliated Society. He is also the author of the rather infamous essay “Why Not Trump?” and other essays such as The Millennial Left is dead and Democratic revolution and the contradiction of capital. In this episode of the Zero Books podcast we discuss the Trump administration’s first year and the left’s various panicked reactions to what Cutrone says is a moment of transition for capitalism itself and US politics in particular."
