On January 7, 2023, prompted by recent protests in China, the Platypus Affiliated Society held a panel on China and the Left. The panelists included Conrad Hamilton (PhD at Université Paris 8), Griffith Jones (formerly of the Socialist Workers Party (U.S.)), David McMullen (simplymarxism.com, a self-described “unreconstructed Maoist,” formerly of Red Eureka Movement), and Anthony Monteiro (Saturday Free School, Philadelphia).
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AT THE END OF THE 20TH CENTURY, as postmodernism achieved hegemony in academic and social scientific discourse, a new Marxism emerged from within academic Marxism declaring itself a radical departure from traditional Marxisms
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ANTHONY MONTEIRO’S ARTICLE “Logic, methodology, rational choice Marxism, and the fate of bourgeois Marxism” provides bracing criticism of analytic Marxism
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Platypus Affiliated Society member Desmund Hui interviewed Griffith Jones in Hong Kong. Jones, a former member of the Socialist Workers Party (United States), who turned to labor and solidarity work in the Washington, DC area with the Nicaragua Information Committee, has lived and worked in Hong Kong and China since 1996, and has worked with a revolutionary socialist group there for the past seven years.
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On July 22, 2023, Platypus Affiliated Society members Efraim Carlebach and D. L. Jacobs interviewed Lars T. Lih, the author of Bread and Authority in Russia: 1914–1921 (1990), Lenin Rediscovered: What is to be Done? in Context (2006), Lenin (2011), and the forthcoming What was Bolshevism?. An edited transcript follows.
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