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“To correct the inegalitarian bias inherent in capitalism”: An interview with Wolfgang Streeck

Will Stratford
On March 9, 2023, Platypus Affiliated Society member Will Stratford interviewed German public intellectual and labor activist Wolfgang Streeck, former professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Cologne, author of several books on the political economy of capitalism, and current emeritus director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne. They discussed a variety of issues confronting the German Left, including neoliberalism, the Aufstehen (“Stand Up”) movement, the German Left’s alienation of AfD voters, the war in Ukraine, and both the degeneration and prospects of Leftist politics today. An edited transcript follows.
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Trotsky in Tijuana: An interview with Dan La Botz

C. D. Hardy, Desmund Hui
On January 21, 2023, Platypus Affiliated Society members C. D. Hardy and Desmund Hui interviewed Dan La Botz regarding his counter-historical novel Trotsky in Tijuana (2020), in which Leon Trotsky survives the assassination attempt in August 1940. An edited transcript follows.
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Eine Zukunft der Menschheit „nur von unten her"

Karl Wimmler, Jahrgang 1953, aufgewachsen in Liezen (Steiermark), studierte Germanistik und Geschichte und war in den 1970er-Jahren in linken Organisationen tätig. Er lebt in Graz als freier Autor und Mitarbeiter von CLIO (Verein für Geschichts- und Bildungsarbeit). Das Interview wurde von Platypus-Mitglied Andreas Wintersperger am 12.11.2022 geführt. Es folgt eine gekürzte und editierte Version des Gesprächs.

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The Left has transformed the world: An interview with Eli Zaretsky

On July 18, 2022, Platypus Affiliated Society members D. L. Jacobs and R. W. Martins interviewed Eli Zaretsky, professor of History at The New School for Social Research, about his book Why America Needs a Left (2012) and the significance of the history and legacy of the New Left for the possibility of a Left today.

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Auf der Suche nach einer gemeinsamen Sprache im postfeudalen Zeitalter

Ein Gespräch mit Vlad von der marxistischen Gruppe KyrgSoc (КыргСоц) über das Erbe der Sowjetunion in Zentralasien und daraus resultierende Herausforderungen für die kirgisische Linke.

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