The Platypus Review

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Latest Issue: #169

“Left-wing” communism and the dictatorship of the proletariat: Lenin’s critique

On April 27, 2024, Platypus Affiliated Society member Jason Adams hosted an introductory workshop on Lenin’s famous 1920 pamphlet “Left-wing” Communism: An Infantile Disorder and its legacy today. An edited transcript follows.

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Red Eureka: An interview with Tom Brennan, Arthur Dent, Tom Griffiths, and David McMullen

Duncan P, Harry H, Ryan M

On December 7, 2022, Platypus Affiliated Society members Harry H., Ryan M., Duncan P., and Tom P. interviewed former Red Eureka Movement members Tom Brennan, Arthur Dent (also known as Albert Langer; he writes at 21stLeft.com), Tom Griffiths, and David McMullen (simplymarxism.com). An edited transcript follows.

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Towards the abyss: An interview with Volodymyr Ishchenko

D.L. Jacobs

On December 29, 2023, Platypus Affiliated Society member D. L. Jacobs interviewed Volodymyr Ishchenko, a researcher at the Freie Universität in Berlin and the author of Towards the Abyss: Ukraine from Maidan to War (2024). An edited transcript follows.

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What was AKEL and where is it going?

Athina Karyati, Charalambos Aristotelous, Marios Thrasyvoulou, Phedias Christodoulides

On December 22, 2022, the Platypus Affiliated Society hosted a panel on AKEL at the House for Cooperation in Nicosia, Cyprus. The speakers were Charalambos Aristotelous (independent candidate in the 2023 presidential elections), Phedias Christodoulides (Platypus and 1917), Athina Karyati (New Internationalist Left), and Marios Thrasyvoulou (historian and author). The moderator was Charis Theodorou.

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Staff

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Louis Sterrett

COPY EDITORS

Gabriel Almeida
Mike Bartlett
Austin Carder
Rory Hannigan
Thom Hutchinson
Stanley Sharpey
Patrick Unwin

DESIGNERS

Mike Atkinson
Chris Mansour

WEB EDITOR

Evan Odell

SOCIAL MEDIA EDITOR

Gabe Gottfried

DISTRIBUTION

Erica Gamble

Editorial Statement

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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