The Platypus Affiliated Society – Platypus Review Authors

Karl Marx, utopian socialist: An interview with Gregory Claeys

On May 9, 2018, Spencer A. Leonard interviewed Gregory Claeys, historian of socialism and author of Machinery, Money and the Millennium: From Moral Economy to Socialism, 1815–1860 (1987), Imperial Sceptics: British Critics of Empire, 1850–1920 (2010), Marx and Marxism (2018), among others. The day after recording the interview it was broadcast on “Radical Minds” on WHPK–FM (88.5 FM) in Chicago. What follows is an edited version of the interview.

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Why I wish Hillary had won: Distractions of anti-Trump-ism

Chris Cutrone

Presented at the Left Forum 2018 on the panel “Has ‘the Left’ Accommodated Trump (and Putin)? A Debate,” with Ravi Bali, Brendan Cooney, Anne Jaclard, Daphne Lawless and Bill Weinberg, organized by the Marxist-Humanist Initiative at John Jay College in NYC on June 2, 2018.

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Flaschenpost statt Scheinrevolution – Ein Interview mit Detlev Claussen über Adorno, Lenin und die Studentenbewegung

Detlev Claussen ist emeritierter Professor für Gesellschaftstheorie, Kultur- und Wissenschaftssoziologie an der Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität in Hannover. Entgegen einer Vereinnahmung durch den akademischen Betrieb und der Anklage eines kulturpessimistischen Rückzuges in einen vermeintlichen Elfenbeinturm verteidigt Claussen die politische Relevanz der Kritischen Theorie und geht in seinen Schriften auch dem Einfluss Lenins auf Adornos Denken nach. Jan Schroeder ist Mitglied bei Platypus. Das nachfolgende Interview fand am 21. März 2017 statt.

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Messages in a bottle instead of pseudo-revolution: an interview with Detlev Claussen

Jan Schroeder

Detlev Claussen is Professor Emeritus at Leibniz University in Germany and author of Theodor W. Adorno: One Last Genius. He defends Critical Theory’s political relevance against both academic co-optation and the charge of retreat into the academic ivory tower. His writings investigate, among other things, Lenin’s influence on Adorno’s thought. Jan Schroeder is a member of Platypus. The following interview was conducted in German on March 21, 2017. What follows is Clara Picker’s translation of the transcript of that interview.

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Interview with Matt Cavagrotti and Greg Lucero of Teamsters for a Democratic Union

Radical Minds co-hosts Erin Hagood and Stephanie Gomez interview Matt Cavagrotti and Greg Lucero on the historical and contemporary relationship between socialism and organized labor.

Greg Lucero is a member of Teamsters, Revolutionary Chicago, and the Socialist Party USA. Matt Cavagrotti is a member of Teamsters and the Platypus Affiliated Society.

Topics discussed include:

Recent wave of American teachers' strikes
AFSCME vs. Janus Supreme Court decision
Upcoming contract negotiations between UPS and Teamsters
Legacy of the New Communist Movement's failed "turn to industry" in the 1970s
The nature and problems of revolutionary leadership
Prospects for reviving unionism and socialism in the U.S.

Radical Minds is a radio show exploring the intersection between politics and economics in the modern world, broadcast on WHPK (88.5 FM Chicago). This episode aired May 24, 2018.

The article referenced by Greg is Radical Minds' interview with Mark Rudd, leader of Students for a Democratic Society and co-founder of the Weather Underground, published in issue 24 of the Platypus Review.

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