Platypus in NYC with chapters at New York University and The New School
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NYU Teach-in: Does Marxism Even Matter? 02.14.12
7PM TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14 New York University NYU Global Center Room 275, 238 Thompson Street Teach-in: Does Marxism Even Matter? In the mid-19th century, Marx and Engels famously observed in the Communist Manifesto that a ‘specter’ was haunting Europe— the specter of Communism. 160 years later, it is ‘Marxism’ itself that haunts us. In the [...]
[Video and Audio] The relevance of Lenin today
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Video (Discussion begins at ~14:00.) Audio Live broadcast: www.livestream.com/platypus1917 Saturday, December 17, 2011 9AM U.S./Canada PST / 10AM MST / 11AM CST / 12PM EST; and 17:00 London / 18:00 Frankfurt and Berlin / 19:00 Thessaloniki / 22:30 Delhi / 02:00 Seoul If you are in Chicago: Saturday, 11am | 17 [...]
[Video] DEC 9: What is the #Occupy movement? pt. 2
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A series of roundtable discussions hosted by The Platypus Affiliated Society. First roundtable discussion, What is the #Occupy movement? (NYC) | Friday 7pm | October 28, 2011 | Kimmel, room 406 NYU, 60 Washington Square S., NYC. The recent #Occupy protests are driven by discontent with the present state of affairs: glaring economic inequality, dead-end Democratic Party politics, and, for some, the suspicion that capitalism could never produce an equitable society. These concerns are coupled with aspirations for social transformation at an international level. For many, the protests at Wall St. and elsewhere provide an avenue to raise questions the Left has long fallen silent on…
[Audio] Antisemitism and the Left
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From accusations directed towards Occupy Wall Street to arson attacks in Brooklyn, antisemitism has reemerged as a concern of the left in recent months. This talk will look at the relationship between the left and antisemitism, giving an overview of different historical forms, analyzing divergent theoretical explanations, and comparing the U.S. and German cases.
[Audio] Crisis Of The Left
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An international forum on the CRISIS OF THE LEFT Chicago | NYC | Philly | Boston | Thessaloniki Crisis: Pathol. The point in the progress of a disease when an important development or change takes place which is decisive of recovery or death. “…Existing strategies and theories seem inadequate in a bewildering contemporary political scene. Disparate [...]
The Contemporary German and American Lefts: A Transatlantic Dialogue
On wednesday 9/14 Platypus hosted a dialogue with Sebastian Fraenkle, editor of the influential German left journal Phase II revolving around what does contemporary landscape of left politics look like in Germany and the United States? What are the points of convergence and departure that shape left politics in these two countries? What might we learn from [...]
Audio for ‘Immigration and the Left’ (NYC 04.19)
Immigration and the Left: A Public Interview with Jane Guskin and David Wilson, authors of The Politics of Immigration Platypus member Jeremy Cohan led a public interview with authors Jane Guskin and David Wilson on April 19 at NYU. Please find the audio recording of the event below: http://www.archive.org/details/TheFutureOfInternationalismImmigrationAndTheLeft Mass marches on May Day 2006 in [...]
Does Marxism Even Matter? – Audio Recording
The audio for teach-in on the Does Marxism Even Matter? is now available on archive.org. Direct Link: Does Marxism Even Matter?
Marxism and Israel: Left Perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian (Audio)
Monday, November 15, 7pm (2010) Thomas Hunter Hall, 930 Lexington Avenue, Room 414 An evening in conversation with Alan Goodman (correspondent for Revolution newspaper, voice of the Revolutionary Communist Party) Richard Rubin (The Platypus Affiliated Society) Questions for the panelists: 1. Historically, what role has the Marxist Left played in the development of Israel? What [...]
What is Critique? symposium video documents
Posted below are two videos from the all day symposium, What is Critique? held on Nov. 20th, 2010. The first video is from the afternoon panel, entitled The Art Critique: Its History, Theories, and Practices. This panel consisted of Tom Butter, Simone Douglas, and James Elkins; it was moderated by Laurie Rojas. The second video [...]
Platypus on the airwaves…
Platypus’s own Chris Mansour and Ian Morrison were recently interviewed by Mitchel Cohen on “Steal this Radio.” The show will be broadcast on Friday, April 2, 2010 at 11 a.m. (New York time). Steal This Radio can be heard only over the internet, not on regular radio.) To hear it, go to http://nytalkradio.net at that [...]
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 [...]
