Bookchin’s Trotskyist decade: 1939–1948
Janet Biehl Platypus Review 52 | December 2012–January 2013 MURRAY BOOKCHIN IS KNOWN TODAY as the intellectual originator of radical ecology in the early 1960s. Social ecology, as he named it, was and...
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Chris Cutrone Platypus Review 53 | February 2013 LEADING PUBLIC MEMBER of the Socialist Workers Party of the United Kingdom, Richard Seymour, who made a name for himself with the book The Liberal...
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Costas Gousis, Thodoris Kariotis, Nikolas Sevastakis, and Aris Tsioumas Platypus Review 53 | February 2013 The following are excerpts from the transcript of a moderated panel discussion and audience...
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For liberty and union: An interview with James McPherson
Spencer A. Leonard Platypus Review 53 | February 2013 Spencer A. Leonard interviewed noted Civil War historian James McPherson, author of the classic Battle Cry of Freedom (1988), to discuss the new...
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Remembrance of things past: An interview with Boris Groys
Ross Wolfe Platypus Review 54 | March 2013 On December 15th, 2012, Ross Wolfe interviewed Boris Groys, Global Distinguished Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at New York University. His numerous...
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What is to be done with the actually existing Marxist left? An interview with...
Ross Wolfe Platypus Review 54 | March 2013 On October 13th, 2012, Ross Wolfe of the Platypus Affiliated Society interviewed Jodi Dean, Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith...
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Traversing the heresies: An interview with Bruno Bosteels
Alec Niedenthal and Ross Wolfe Platypus Review 54 | March 2013 On October 14, 2012, Alec Niedenthal and Ross Wolfe interviewed Bruno Bosteels, Professor of Romance Studies at Cornell University and...
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Radical interpretations of the present crisis
Hillel Ticktin, Saul Newman, David Graeber, and James Woudhuysen Platypus Review 55 | April 2013 Last autumn, chapters of the Platypus Affiliated Society in New York, London, and Chicago hosted similar...
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The anti-political party
James Heartfield Platypus Review 55 | April 2013 Book Review: Ian Birchall. Tony Cliff: A Marxist for His Time. London: Bookmarks, 2011. THE SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY (SWP) is the largest political...
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Thomas Seibert, Norbert Trenkle, Daniel Loick, and Janine Wissler Platypus Review 55 | April 2013 Last summer, the Frankfurt chapter of the Platypus Affiliated Society hosted the latest iteration...
View ArticleLa contra Adorno: The sex-economic problem of Platypus
Noah R. Gataveckas Platypus Review 57 | June 2013 “Think of us like the psychoanalysts of the Left.” This was one of the descriptions that a member of the Platypus Affiliated Society offered after I...
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Conversations on the Left: What is to be done?
Bhaskar Sunkara, James Turley, and Ben Blumberg Platypus Review 57 | June 2013 On April 18th, 2013, the Platypus Affiliated Society organized a conversation at New York University between Bhaskar...
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Black politics in the age of Obama
Cedric Johnson and Mel Rothenberg Platypus Review 57 | June 2013 On May 6, 2013, the Platypus Affiliated Society hosted a conversation on “Black Politics in the Age of Obama” at the University of...
View ArticleProgram and utopia
Roger Rashi, Sam Gindin, Stephen Eric Bronner, Aaron Benanav, and Richard Rubin Platypus Review 58 | July 2013 This year’s Platypus International Convention concluded with the plenary “Program and...
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Aging in the afterlife: The many deaths of art
Anton Vidokle, Gregg Horowitz, Paul Mattick, and Yates McKee Platypus Review 58 | July 2013 Last spring, in response to Paul Mason’s article “Does Occupy Signal the Death of Contemporary Art?,” the...
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Marx’s liberalism? An interview with Jonathan Sperber
Spencer A. Leonard and Sunit Singh Platypus Review 58 | July 2013 On June 25, 2013, Spencer A. Leonard and Sunit Singh interviewed Jonathan Sperber, historian of the 1848 revolutions and author of the...
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Isyan: The participation of the radical left in the Gezi Park protests
Ivo Furman Platypus Review 59 | September 2013 Ataturk Cultural Centre (AKM) on the 11th of June. ‘Isyan’ means revolution or uprising in Turkish. On May 28th, 2013, a group of environmental...
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Cap on debt
Peter Bierl Platypus Review 60 | October 2013 Book Review: David Graeber, Debt: The First 5000 Years. New York: Melville House, 2012. LIKE MANY CRITICS OF GLOBALIZATION, David Graeber does not seem...
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Nietzsche’s untimeliness
Sunit Singh Platypus Review 61 | November 2013 On June 9, 2013, the Platypus Affiliated Society organized a panel discussion on “Revolution without Marx? Rousseau and his followers for the Left” for...
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Adam Smith, revolutionary
Spencer A. Leonard Platypus Review 61 | November 2013 On June 9, 2013, the Platypus Affiliated Society organized a panel discussion on “Revolution without Marx? Rousseau and his followers for the Left”...
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