Platypus in NYC with chapters at New York University and The New School
Archive for November, 2009
Screening: Monday, November 23, 7:30 pm @ The Brecht Forum
Red Channels and the Platypus Affiliated Society present: The Poverty of Student Life, a film screening and discussion Monday, November 23, 7:30 pm – 10:30 pm @ The Brecht Forum, 451 West Street San Francisco State: On Strike – Newsreel, 1969, 25 minutes Community Control – Newsreel, 1969, 50 minutes TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 75 minutes [...]
Platypus Reading Group: week 11 [Saturday, 1:00pm]
Please join us for the eleventh meeting of the Platypus Reading group. We will begin with the problem of our contemporary political moment, the absence of the Left, and will continue to investigate the history of the Left over the course of the upcoming academic year in light of this problem: What has the Left [...]
The Decline of the Left in the 20th Century : Toward a Theory of Historical Regression
The Decline of the Left in the 20th Century : Toward a Theory of Historical Regression A Platypus Review Special Edition (issue 17: November, 2009) Based on a panel discussion held by Platypus at Pace University last year, The Platypus Review traces in this special issue the slow death of the Left in our time, precisely [...]
Trotsky’s speech in Copenhagen (Denmark)
New York has got some explaining to do… [...Europe in general has ceased to be the center of the world. It is foolish to hope that Europe as it is will again occupy that position. The present terrific crisis, in spite of its devastating effects on the United States, will change the relation of forces [...]