THE COMMENTARY ON THE Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848) must exceed the word count of that little pamphlet by a factor of thousands, if not more. To this grand number is added another, A Spectre, Haunting: On The Communist Manifesto by British Marxist fantasy writer China Miéville.
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On December 8, 2022, the Platypus Affiliated Society hosted this panel at the University of California, Merced with panelists Adi Dasgupta (UC Merced), Leo Niehorster-Cook (Democratic Socialists of America), Jessica Sales (Party of Socialism and Liberalism), and Mark Woodall (United Auto Workers 2865).
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Lars Lih reviews the new translation of Marx's Critique of the Gotha Program, by Kevin B. Anderson and Karel Ludenhoff.
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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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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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