As the following account will show, New Zealand, a country whose foundation coincided with capitalism’s first major crisis, offers interesting signposts of Bonapartism throughout its history. The eventual result was Bonapartism’s dialectical image: the development of proletarian socialism. Neither was exceptional in global terms.
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The ABCs of history: in November 1932, an election took place in Germany. The Nazis emerged as the largest party in the Reichstag. Three months later the German president Paul von Hindenburg appointed Hitler chancellor. That was the last free election in the German Republic. Sometimes last is last.
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On Saturday, April 11, 2026, the Platypus Affiliated Society hosted a panel discussion at the University of Chicago, marking the 100th anniversary of the death of Eugene Debs. The speakers were Andrea Bauer (Freedom Socialist Party), Mark Burrows (Railroad Workers United and board member of the Eugene V. Debs Foundation), Carlos L. Garrido (American Communist Party, and author of Why You Need American Marxism), and Edward Remus (Platypus Affiliated Society and the Campaign for a Socialist Party).
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The supposedly scientific theory of “class for itself” is something removed from the lives of everyday people, imposed on them by intellectuals. It does not use the language of the commonwealth, the main resource for Americans imagining a future beyond state-centered socialism and rapacious capitalism.
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