On October 12, 2024, the Platypus Affiliated Society hosted the panel, “1776 and 2024: Revolutionary Boston and capitalist politics today,” at Boston College, as part of its 2024 East Coast Conference. The panel featured three Platypus members: James Vaughn, Spencer Leonard, and Erin Hagood. James Vaughn’s edited opening remarks follow
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Over June and July 2020, the Platypus Affiliated Society hosted a lecture series titled “The Legacy of the American Revolution”. The lectures were given by Platypus members James Vaughn, Chris Cutrone, Pamela Nogales, Spencer Leonard and Reid Kotlas. To conclude the lecture series, the lecturers convened a roundtable discussion on the fate of the American Revolution. What follows is an edited transcript of their discussion.
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Introduction: The bourgeois revolution(s) and the American Revolution
In the period stretching from the outbreak of the Seven Years’ War to the coup d’état that brought Napoleon Bonaparte to power in revolutionary France
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