Five questions to the student Left
Pam C Nogales, Benjamin Shepard An interview with SDS member Rachel Haut published in the September issue of this publication provoked widespread comment in radical circles. (1) We welcome the...
View ArticleRead and Discuss January 18 texts: gender, sexuality and revolution (Mitchell...
January 18, 2009 readings 1960s paths not taken (2): gender, sexuality and revolution “The situation of women is different from that of any other social group. This is because they are not one of a...
View Articlenote on recent readings: Slaughter, Nettl, Luxemburg
After the recent discussion of Luxemburg’s pamphlet on Reform or Revolution? (1900/08), there might be some confusion regarding the relationship between Luxemburg’s formulations and the raison d’etre...
View ArticlePlatypus NYC Marxist reading group
Platypus NYC meets Sundays 2-4PM at: New York University Puck Building Sociology Department 295 Lafayette St. 4th floor New York, NY 10012 Join Platypus NYC google group for more information. [PDF of...
View ArticleRemarks on Chris Cutrone’s ‘Iraq and the election: the fog of “anti-war”...
Tuomas Nevanlinna I was intrigued to find in The Platypus Review #7 a commentary by Chris Cutrone on the U.S. role in world politics. I found it more sophisticated and original than anything I had...
View ArticleCan Neo-liberalism continue after the crisis?
Observations on the Ideological Recovery in France and the United States Ashleigh Campi It has been noted that the current economic crisis is of a scale unprecedented in the history of advanced...
View ArticleWhy the U.S. stimulus package is bound to fail
David Harvey Much is to be gained by viewing the contemporary crisis as a surface eruption generated out of deep tectonic shifts in the spatio-temporal disposition of capitalist development. The...
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Platypus NYC screening: TOUT VA B!EN (1972)
TOUT VA B!EN (1972) A Film by Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin 96 minutes (In French w/ English Subtitles) clip Thursday, April 16th, 2009 8:00 p.m. 435 Grand Ave # 2F Brooklyn, NY In...
View Articlemy dialogue with Kliman on Chicago Political Workshop, Principia Dialectica...
[Andrew Kliman wrote:] Reply to Chicago Political Workshop, Chris Cutrone, and Principia Dialectica Posted: May 27th, 2009 | Author: Andrew Kliman | Filed under: Organization, Philosophy | Tags:...
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Why is it that nobody understands me, yet everybody likes me?
The ambivalence of the current German student movement Stefan Dietl In a rally of over 4,000 protesters in Frankfurt last June, German students hold up a banner reading in English, “Bailout education,...
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Left Behind: The Working Class in Crisis [Media Recording]
The Platypus Affiliated Society presents a moderated panel discussion and audience Q&A addressing issues of global capital, trade unions, workers rights, international solidarity, and immigration,...
View ArticleCapital in History: Marxism and the Modern Philosophy of Freedom
A presentation by Platypus member Chris Cutrone on August 16th, 2011, at Communist University, which took place from August 17th to August 20th, 2011, at Goldsmiths, University of London. Video...
View ArticleFinance Capital and Occupy: Marxist Perspectives
OWS has put the focus on finance capital as a driver of inequality, and on the need for political action to address it. But what is the function of finance capital in the modern world, and how should...
View ArticleGlobal Rut: Chris Cutrone on CrossTalk
Platypus Affiliated Society member Chris Cutrone on RT's Crosstalk, hosted by Peter Lavelle, on the global economic crisis. “The IMF has released a report that predicts the hoped-for global economic...
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Radical Interpretations of the Present Crisis, NYC, 11.14.12
A panel event held at the New School in New York City on November 14th, 2012. LOREN GOLDNER ┇ DAVID HARVEY ┇ ANDREW KLIMAN ┇ PAUL MATTICK Transcribed in Platypus Review #56: The present moment is...
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The concept of the Left and right
Georgii Krutikov's proposal for Flying City, 1928. Chris Cutrone, Nikos Malliaris and Samir Gandesha Platypus Review 68 | July 2014 “We are the 99%”—Occupy Wall Street (2011) "The Left must define...
View Articlemy dialogue with Kliman on Chicago Political Workshop, Principia Dialectica...
[Andrew Kliman wrote:] Reply to Chicago Political Workshop, Chris Cutrone, and Principia Dialectica Posted: May 27th, 2009 | Author: Andrew Kliman | Filed under: Organization, Philosophy | Tags:...
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Why is it that nobody understands me, yet everybody likes me?
The ambivalence of the current German student movement Stefan Dietl Platypus Review 21 | March 2010 [PDF] “DIESER HÖRSAAL IST BESETZT!” (“This lecture hall is occupied!”) In November and December 2009,...
View ArticleCapital in History: Marxism and the Modern Philosophy of Freedom
A presentation by Platypus member Chris Cutrone on August 16th, 2011, at Communist University, which took place from August 17th to August 20th, 2011, at Goldsmiths, University of London. Video...
View ArticleFinance Capital and Occupy: Marxist Perspectives
OWS has put the focus on finance capital as a driver of inequality, and on the need for political action to address it. But what is the function of finance capital in the modern world, and how should...
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