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Latest Issue: #178

The Millennial Left is unborn: Is there a Left in the 21^st century?

IRONICALLY, IT MIGHT ONLY BE NOW that the 21st century is really beginning. But this comes after the death of the Millennial Left, which strived but failed to be true to what was new and different about the 21st century, instead falling back on rehearsing and repeating the 20th century, to which it remained beholden.

What is capitalism?

James Robb, Joe Hendren, Robert Reid

On March 14, 2024, the Platypus Affiliated Society hosted a panel discussion at the Rationalist House in Auckland, New Zealand, with panelists Joe Hendren (Auckland Socialist Society), James Robb (A Worker At Large blog), and Robert Reid (FIRST Union). Platypus member Michael McClelland moderated the panel. An edited transcript follows.

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Taking stock of the universe of positions and goals that constitutes leftist politics today, we are left with the disquieting suspicion that a deep commonality underlies the apparent variety: What exists today is built upon the desiccated remains of what was once possible.
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