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Platypus Review #149 (September) is now available online and is coming soon in print near you!

Featuring:
-Labor history and the Left, by Will Stratford

-Perpetual motion machines: A response to Canel, Duhalde, and Horras, by D. L. Jacobs

-Anti-fascism in the Philippines: Back to the 1980s, by Daniel Rudin

-A Marxist history of the philosophical perspective: An answer to Alan Woods’s The History of Philosophy: A Marxist Perspective, by Justin Spiegel and Andreas Wintersperger

-Revolutionary righteousness: A review of Doug Greene’s A Failure of Vision: Michael Harrington and the Limits of Democratic Socialism, by Jack Clark

-Has democratic socialism been a disaster in the U.S.?
A review of Doug Greene’s A Failure of Vision: Michael Harrington and the Limits of Democratic Socialism, by Tom Canel

We encourage you to formulate your own reactions/responses to these articles and submit them for publication in a future issue of the Platypus Review, as part of our mission to host the conversation on the Left.

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Platypus Review #147 (June) is now available online and is coming soon in print near you!

Featuring:
-Efraim Carlebach, "Three magazines: Ghosts of the New Left"
-Keith McHenry, "Essential workers of the world, unite!"
-David McMullen, "A Maoist response to 'What was the Chinese Revolution and where is it going?'"
-Daniel Rudin, "Deep underground in the Philippines: An interview with Nathan Quimpo"
-Max Hörügel, "The early Antideutsch and the the working class"
-Michael Fischer, "The failure of the Antideutsch: A response to Max Hörügel"

We encourage you to formulate your own reactions/responses to these articles and submit them for publication in a future issue of the Platypus Review, as part of our mission to host the conversation on the Left.

https://platypus1917.org/category/pr/issue-147/

* NEW EPISODE SPS PODCAST * On this two-part episode of SPS, Pamela sits with Leila Mechoi, the co-host of Red Star Radio podcast. They reflect on the Left's reaction to the late trucker protest in Canada, and discuss the role of civil liberties in the organization of the working class, as well as what sort of missed political opportunity -- if any -- did the protest present. In the second part of the episode, Andreas and Berlin-based Platypus member, Tamas talked to Peter and Noemi, both members of Szikra, a leftist group in Hungary founded in 2019. They discuss the situation of the Hungarian Left with regards to developments within the international left over the past decade, as well as the next Hungarian parliamentary election in April of this year. They also take up the deeper history of the Left in Hungary and specific political challenges in the "post-socialist "countries of Eastern Europe today.

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Ep. 44: After the Freedom Convoy & the Hungarian Left Today On this two-part episode of SPS, Pamela sits with Leila Mechoi, the co-host of Red Star Radio podcast. They reflect on the Left's reaction to the late trucker protest in Canada, and discuss the role o

NEW Episode! Ep. 43: On the Freedom Convoy, the Austrian Communist Party (KPÖ) & 2021 Platypus Highlights
On this episode, Pamela sits down with our Toronto member Cam Hardy to discuss Canada's "Freedom Convoy", and the responses by the "Left". They investigate Jacobin's hot take on the "inauthentic" working-class character of the protests, and the call by the Canadian Communist Party to criminalize the convoy. In the second segment, Andreas interviews Amir Sturm, a member of the Austrian Communist Party (KPÖ). Andreas asks about the current state of the KPÖ, its history & political self-understanding and the relationship between the KPÖ and Junge Linke, an Austrian leftist youth organization. Finally, our S**t Platypus Does team, Rebekah and Lisa, chat with our members Ryan, Daniel, and Phedias about how Platypus has engaged the Left over the Legacy of Occupy, the meaning of Capitalism, and the politics of COVID-19 in our panel events in 2021.

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Platypus Review #143 (February) is now available online and is coming soon in print near you!
Featuring:
-The Left is a concept — but social revolution is not: A response to “Benedict Cryptofash,” by Chris Cutrone
-The Black Belt thesis: An interview with Timothy V. Johnson, by Daniel Deweese
-1619 and all that: Contradictions of the American Revolution, by Daniel Lazare
-Whose war guilt? The Taliban as the American Left’s mirror, by Wes Vanderburgh
We encourage you to formulate your own reactions/responses to these articles and submit them for publication in a future issue of the Platypus Review, as part of our mission to host the conversation on the Left.
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Platypus Review #143 (February) is now available online and is coming soon in print near you!

Featuring:
-The Left is a concept — but social revolution is not: A response to “Benedict Cryptofash,” by Chris Cutrone
-The Black Belt thesis: An interview with Timothy V. Johnson, by Daniel Deweese
-1619 and all that: Contradictions of the American Revolution, by Daniel Lazare
-Whose war guilt? The Taliban as the American Left’s mirror, by Wes Vanderburgh
-Tomorrow is today: An interview with Anthony Monteiro, by Zeyu Chen and D. L. Jacobs

We encourage you to formulate your own reactions/responses to these articles and submit them for publication in a future issue of the Platypus Review, as part of our mission to host the conversation on the Left.

https://platypus1917.org/category/pr/issue-143/

** NEW EPISODE**

In this special Xmas edition of SPS, your new hosts of the "Sh-t Platypus Does" segment, Rebekah and Lisa, chat with the Platypus Review Editor-in-Chief, Lou, about the new issue, PR #142 -- including articles: "What can one learn from the Right?" by D.L. Jacobs, "The Left is not a concept" by Benedict Cryptofash, "We are the city-building tendency" by Caleb T. Maupin and "Paths to Marxism" by Chris Cutrone.

New Issue, PR #142
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Leszek Kolakowski "The Concept of the Left" (1968)
platypus1917.org/wp-content/uploa…ceptleft1968.pdf

The Marxist hypothesis: A response to Alain Badiou's "communist hypothesis" by Chris Cutrone, in the Platypus Review #29 (November 2010)
platypus1917.org/2010/11/06/the-m…nist-hypothesis/

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Ep 42: The Concept of the Left, a special Xmas edition In this special Xmas edition of SPS, your new hosts of the "Sh-t Platypus Does" segment, Rebekah and Lisa, chat with the Platypus Review Editor-in-Chief, Lou, about the new issue, PR #142 -- including

On this episode of SPS, Sophia and Pamela sit down with Spencer L., founding member of Platypus and historian of imperialism, to discuss the Rittenhouse trial and the “Left’s” response. They clear up the confusion around the Second Amendment among todays leftists, address the anti-racism of progressive liberals, and take up responses by Daniel Lazare (Weekly Worker) and the Bolshevik Tendency. In the second part of the episode, Andreas W. and Platypus Melbourne member, Ryan M., interview Sue Bolton (Socialist Alliance) on the protests against the Australian vaccine mandate, including the September attack on the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) offices. Union leadership was under attack by union members for their complicity with state measures, which prevented a return to work without vaccination. Andreas and Ryan ask, how should the left respond? Are these protests simply cannon fodder for the right? How should socialists understand this discontent in civil society?

SEGMENT I Links
>The “Left” on Rittenhouse

Daniel Lazare, “Rittenhouse and White Backlash” in the Weekly Worker, issue 1373 (25 November 2021)
weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1373/rit…white-backlash/
“...The idea that good guys need guns to defend themselves against bad guys is asinine, since it is often far from clear in a shootout which is which. It is a determination that cannot be made individually on the spur of the moment, but can only be made deliberately and collectively, which is why democracy requires judges, courts and other such apparatus.”

Milwaukee DSA Statement on Rittenhouse Verdict, (22 November 2021)
milwaukee.dsawi.org/milwaukee-dsa-s…nhouse-verdict/
“It is no coincidence that Rittenhouse wants to be a police officer when he grows up. The US injustice system was developed to enshrine white supremacy at the expense of those who work to undo it. As those in power continue to build upon the fascist foundations of our nation, it becomes ever-clearer that abolition of police and the carceral state at large is the only path forward.”

Bolshevik Tendency, “Killer Rittenhouse Goes Free—Fascists Celebrate”
bolsheviktendency.org/2021/11/27/kil…sts-celebrate/
“Decent people do not recognize the “right” of fascists and their various ultra-rightist friends and associates to mobilize—nor do we recognize their right to “defend” themselves against attempts to disarm them, which is what Rittenhouse’s victims were seeking to do. While the latter’s tactics were obviously seriously deficient, their intent was commendable.”

>Education on Liberalism & Constitutional Rights
Ira Glasser, Free Speech and the ACLU, an interview by Glenn Greenwald
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGI4fc_VB7c
Platypus Public Fora Series: The Second Amendment and the Left
Platypus Review 110 (October 2018): platypus1917.org/2018/10/01/the-s…nt-and-the-left/
June 9, 2018, University of Houston: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaaAqAm6oAw

SEGMENT II Links
Sue Bolton's article in Green Left, Socialist Alliance's publication: www.greenleft.org.au/content/behind…k-cfmeu-office
The other Green Left article Andreas quotes, by Dave Kellaway: www.greenleft.org.au/content/italy-…-confederation
Socialist Alliance's website: socialist-alliance.org/

Hosted by Sophia F., Pamela N. and Andreas W., with original tracks by Tamas Vilaghy, and editing assistance by Michael Woodson and Tamas Vilaghy. To learn more about Platypus, go to platypus1917.org/.

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Ep. 41: On Rittenhouse & Aussie Protests against the Vaccine Mandate On this episode of SPS, Sophia and Pamela sit down with Spencer L., founding member Platypus and historian of imperialism, to discuss the Rittenhouse trial and the “Left’s” response. They clear up the

"Class and the Left" (12/04/21 panel) On December 4th, 2021 the Platypus Affiliated Society hosted a public forum on the topic "Class and the Left."PANELISTS:-Daniel Burnfin (DSA - Class Unity)-E...

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Platypus Review #141 (November) is now available online and is coming soon in print near you!

Featuring:
- Chris Cutrone, "The dictatorship of the proletariat and the death of the Left"

- Karyn Pomerantz, "COVID, capitalism, and communism"

- Hari Kumar, "Empty, pro-imperialist rhetoric: A response to Chris Cutrone's 'Afghanistan'"

https://platypus1917.org/category/pr/issue-141/

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On this episode of SPS, Pamela and the Platypus Review Editor-in-Chief, Lou S. chat about the recent NBA crack-up over vaccine skepticism and discuss the articles in the new issue of the Platypus Review. Andreas, our EU correspondent, reports from the frontlines of a protest camp in the North East of Vienna. And, in the last segment, Andreas sits with our German members, Tobias, Tom and Anna, to reflect on the recent Bundestag election. They discuss the past and future of Die Linke, the upset by the Greens & the collapse of the left/right distinction within the Green Party, and the future of a post-Merkel, post-Neo-liberalism Germany.

Latest Issue of the Platypus Review:
- platypus1917.org/platypus-review/

SPS on the DSA:
- Platypus-affiliated-society – Ep22
- Platypus-affiliated-society – Ep8
- and on the DSA & Seth Ackerman: Platypus-affiliated-society – Ep3

Platypus Panels:
- Panel Series “What does Climate Change?": platypus1917.org/international-se…-climate-change/
- Die Linke Panel (in German): platypus1917.org/2021/06/02/podium-linkspartei/
- Greens Panel (in German): platypus1917.org/panel-gruene/

Platypus on the Death of the Millennial Left:
- Chris Cutrone article from 2017, platypus1917.org/2017/10/01/millennial-left-dead/
- Public Panel on “What was the Millennial Left?" during the Platypus 2021 International Convention: tinyurl.com/5a5uktsf
- Chris Cutrone teach-in on the death of the millennial left from 2018: tinyurl.com/3sftxpfn

Hosted by Sophia F., Pamela N. and Andreas W., with original tracks by Tamas Vilaghy, and editing assistance by Michael Woodson and Tamas Vilaghy. To learn more about Platypus, go to Platypus1917.org.

Ep. 39: On the NBA's Vaccine Blues, the German Elections, & Protests Today On this episode of SPS, Pamela and the Platypus Review Editor-in-Chief, Lou S. chat about the recent NBA crack-up over vaccine skepticism and discuss the articles in the new issue of the Platypus Revi

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- On the Marxist use of psychoanalysis to understand fascism, by Victor Cova
- Latin American Trotskyism: An interview with Antonio Rosello, by Francisco Sanchez Acosta
- The Millennial Left and the Democratic Party: A response to D. L. Jacobs, by Tom Canel
- The politics of critical theory (panel), with Chris Cutrone, Dennis Graemer, Douglas Kellner, and Doug Lain
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New issue is hot off the press 🔥
Pick up a paper copy at a chapter near you of Platypus Review #140

Share far and wide! Comment with your thoughts!
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- On the Marxist use of psychoanalysis to understand fascism, by Victor Cova

- Latin American Trotskyism: An interview with Antonio Rosello, by Francisco Sanchez Acosta

- The Millennial Left and the Democratic Party: A response to D. L. Jacobs, by Tom Canel

- The politics of critical theory (panel), with Chris Cutrone, Dennis Graemer, Douglas Kellner, and Doug Lain

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Saturday this weekend — Platypus London Reading Group — Radical Bourgeois Philosophy — Immanuel Kant & Benjamin Constant on Bourgeois Society — 11am in High Holborn (100-110) Caffè Nero ☕️📚
Syllabus: https://platypus1917.org/2021/09/21/london-autumn-2021-left-marxism

Saturday this weekend — Platypus London Reading Group — Radical Bourgeois Philosophy — Immanuel Kant & Benjamin Constant on Bourgeois Society — 11am in High Holborn (100-110) Caffè Nero ☕️📚

Syllabus: https://platypus1917.org/2021/09/21/london-autumn-2021-left-marxism/

** NEW EPISODE ** On this episode of SPS, Pamela and Sophia discuss the Biden bungle of the Afghanistan withdrawal and the responses by the “Left,” including Tariq Ali for the New Left Review and Branko Marcetic for Jacobin. SPS European Correspondent Andreas interviews Eduardo Maura, from the Spanish party Podemos, and asks him to reflect on his political trajectory, from his work in the Indignados -- the Spanish anti-austerity movement -- to Podemos in government, to the party’s recent electoral defeats. In the last segment, Platypus president Efraim interviews Mike Watson, a UK born art & media theorist, and author of The Memeing of Mark Fisher: How the Frankfurt School Foresaw Capitalist Realism and What To Do About It, released by Zero Books in 2021. They discuss the different responses to the New Left by Adorno and Marcuse and the conditions of possibility for political consciousness in an administered society.



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Ep. 38: On Afghanistan, Podemos, & the Frankfurt School today On this episode of SPS, Pamela and Sophia discuss the Biden bungle of the Afghanistan withdrawal and the responses by the “Left,” including Tariq Ali for the New Left Review and Branko Marcetic for Ja

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Join us tomorrow at 6pm (UK) for our primary Marxist reading group! All welcome! Zoom link in FB page.
https://platypus1917.org/2021/08/02/uk-online-marxist-reading-group-2021/
Week B. 1960s New Left I. Neo-Marxism | Aug. 16, 2021
• Martin Nicolaus, “The unknown Marx” (1968)
+ Commodity form chart of terms
+ Capitalist contradiction chart of terms
+ Organic composition of capital chart of terms
+ Marx on surplus-value chart of terms
• Theodor W. Adorno, “Late Capitalism or Industrial Society?” (AKA “Is Marx Obsolete?”) (1968)
• Moishe Postone, “Necessity, labor, and time” (1978)
+ Postone, “Interview: Marx after Marxism” (2008)
+ Postone, “History and helplessness: Mass mobilization and contemporary forms of anticapitalism” (2006)
+ Postone, “Theorizing the contemporary world: Brenner, Arrighi, Harvey” (2006)

Platypus UK Online Marxist Reading Group (Summer-Autumn 2021) - Platypus Mondays at 6pm on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81062045963 Facebook event: https://fb.me/e/1TRK16DKi Everybody welcome! No prior experience required. • required / + recommended reading Marx and Engels readings pp. from Robert C. Tucker, ed., Marx-Engels Reader (Norton 2nd ed., 1978) Week A...