On November 7, 2015, the Platypus Affiliated Society hosted a panel discussion at its 2nd European Conference in Frankfurt entitled âWomen: The Longest Revolution?â The panelists were Cornelia MoÌser, who earned her PhD in gender studies and political science and is a researcher for the CNRS at the CRESPPA-GTM in Paris; Lucy Parker, a member of Platypus based in London; Joy McReady, a journalist and revolutionary social activist who writes a monthly column on womenâs liberation for Workersâ Power, the British section of the League for the Fifth International; and Ursula Jensen, a founding member of the International Bolshevik Tendency and a longterm member of the works council within the IG Metall.
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On October 31, 2015, Jamie Keesling and Spencer A. Leonard of the Platypus Affiliated Society conducted an interview with Martin Jay, author of The Dialectical Imagination (1973), Marxism and Totality (1984), Essays from the Edge: Parerga & Paralipomena (2011), and Reason after Its Eclipse: On Late Critical Theory (2016) among others.
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On August 6th in Frankfurt am Main in Germany there was a Platypus panel on the questionâ âWhat is a left political organization?â Among the panelists was Daniel Behruzi from the German section of the Committee for a Workerâs International (CWI). Read the response by DGS_TaP and systemcrash.
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Politics as a personal racketâno one has perfected this science better than the Clintons, a power couple that decided very early in their political careers on what they deemed âThe Journey,â that eight years of Bill's presidency would inevitably be followed by eight years of Hillary
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Famously, Clement Greenberg wrote in 1939 that the avant-garde is connected to the bourgeoisie by an âumbilical cord of gold.â This image has become so familiar that its peculiarities are rarely commented upon. The point is not simply the obvious one for Marxists, that art reflects the interests of a bourgeois class.
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