Platypus Coffee Breaks are a great time to meet and connect with members of Platypus as well as fellow travelers and allies of the group. It’s an opportunity to discuss issues raised in the latest issue of the Platypus Review, to consider the state of the Left, and to just hang out with people who have similar political interests.

Please join us!

During the summer months, we will have one coffee break in New York. It will begin on Wednesday, June 16th and run throughout the summer:

Think Coffee
Wednesdays, 7:00 PM -8:30 PM
Think Cafe,
248 Mercer st.
Please e-mail Pac Pobric at zpobric@gmail.com with any questions.

Uncategorized coffee break, ideology, Left, New York, New York chapter, NYC, Platpus Review, theory

Platypus Marxist Reading Group

 

June 13 – August 22, 2010

 

Sundays, 1–4PM at:

 

The New School University – 25 E. 13th St, Room 502

Marx and Marxism

Readings pp. from Robert C. Tucker, ed., Marx-Engels Reader (Norton 2nd ed., 1978) (* at marxists.org)

June 13

Karl Marx on the history of his opinions (from Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy), pp. 3–6

Marx, To make the world philosophical, pp. 9–11

Marx, For the ruthless criticism of everything existing, pp. 12–15

Marx, Theses on Feuerbach, pp. 143–145

June 20

Marx, On The Jewish Question, pp. 26–52

June 27

Marx, The coming upheaval (from The Poverty of Philosophy), pp. 218–219

Marx and Engels, Communist Manifesto, pp. 469–500

Marx, Address to the Central Committee of the Communist League, pp. 501–511

July 4

[break for Independence Day weekend]

July 11

The tactics of social democracy (Engels’s introduction to Marx, The Class Struggles in France), pp. 556–573

Marx, from The Class Struggles in France 1848–50, pp. 586–593

July 18

Marx, The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, pp. 594–617

July 25

Marx, On imperialism in India, 653–664 (available online as The British Rule in India and The Future Results of British Rule in India)

Marx and Engels, Europocentric world revolution, pp. 676–677 (available online as Marx to Engels October 8, 1858 and Engels to Kautsky September 12, 1882)

August 1

Marx, The Civil War in France, pp. 618–652

August 8

Marx, Inaugural address to the First International, pp. 512–519

Karl Korsch, The Marxism of the First International *

August 15

Korsch, Introduction to Marx, Critique of the Gotha Programme *

Marx, Critique of the Gotha Programme, pp. 525–541

August 22

Max Horkheimer, “The Authoritarian State” (1940) (in The Essential Frankfurt School Reader, eds. Andrew Arato and Eike Gebhardt, pp. 95–117)

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Please join us for our summer reading group, open to the public beginning on June 13. Please contact Pac Pobric at zpobric@gmail.com with any questions.

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Uncategorized Left, Marx, Marxism, New School, New York, New York chapter, NYC, philosophy, reading group, theory

Ian Morrison interviews Homayoun Pourzad, a representative for the Network of Iranian Labor Unions, on the current crisis and the effects of “anit-imperial” ideologies on understanding the character of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Benjamin M. Blumberg discusses the history of the American Left and the still unmet challenge of theorizing and abolishing race and racism.

Tim Barker reviews Jeffrey B. Perry’s biography of Hubert Harrison, whose interactions with the Socialist Party are an example of the way in which racial and class questions became fatally separated on the American Left.

Max Elliot Katz reviews David Renton’s Dissident Marxism, taking the author to task for neglecting the regression of the 20th century and the liquidation of adequate theory and action.

Uncategorized American Left, Benjamin Blumberg, book review, David Renton, Dissident Marxism, Homayoun Pourzad, Hubert Harrison, Ian Morrison, interview, Iran, Jeffrey B. Perry, Left, Max Elliot Katz, Network of Iranian Labor Unions, Platpus Review, race, racism, review, theory, Tim Barker

Saturday, October 3 – 7:30pm @ Union Docs [ 322 Union Ave, Brooklyn NY ]

Platypus NY Chapter head, Chris Mansour, will be introducing the film. Discussion with Filmmaker and Stephen Duncombe to follow the screening.

In EXAMINED LIFE (2008, 87 minutes, Canada, DVD), filmmaker Astra Taylor accompanies some of today’s most influential thinkers on a series of unique excursions through places and spaces that hold particular resonance for them and their ideas.

This event is presented in association with the Platypus Affiliated Society, New York chapter. Platypus organizes reading groups, public fora, research and journalism focused on problems and tasks inherited from the “Old” (1920s-30s), “New” (1960s-70s) and post-political (1980s-90s) Left for the possibilities of emancipatory politics today.

http://www.uniondocs.org/examined-life-with-astra-taylor/

Uncategorized 2008, Astra Taylor, Avital Ronell, Brooklyn, Chris Mansour, Cornel West, event, examined life, film screening, ideology, Judith Butler, Kwarne Anthony Appiah, Martha Nussbaum, Michael Hardt, New York, New York chapter, NYC, Peter Singer, philosophy, Slavoj Žižek, Stephen Duncombe, Sunaura Taylor, theory, Union Docs, Žižek!