Part of the problem that I have set myself is the task of explaining the crisis of the Left today in terms of the long legacy of the (failures of the) 60s New...
I thought this article would be of interest: Herbert Marcuse, "Marxism and Feminism," Women's Studies, 2, no. 3 (1974): 279-288. as would this engagement with...
I thought this would be of interest for understanding both the New Left and the present. Parker H. Marcuse, "Failure of the New Left," New German Critique, 18...
A consensus has developed to dedicate the next meeting of the Platypus Marxist reading group, on this coming Sunday, July 9, to the topic of women and...
There are several things about this I find fascinating, but I am not sure that I can articulate all of them. The first is perhaps simply the idea of reviewing...
The Caliber is avertised before Daily Show internet clips so I have seen their ads many times. It is a very ugly car that has a distinct resemblence of a yugo...
http://home.comcast.net/~platypus1917/platypus_chicagoreadings2006.htm#9july2006 The Sunday 7/9/06 meeting of the Platypus Marxist reading group in Chicago was...
Note that this text is rather incomplete has been edited, however. One can find the rest in "Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings" copyright 1972 by...
... wrote: "We're not asking permission to stop this war. We're not asking permission to fight for our freedom. We're not asking for those in power to do their...
of interest... "We're not asking permission to stop this war. We're not asking permission to fight for our freedom. We're not asking for those in power to do...
Common sense against the Will to Believe. Carl Davidson was a major figure in the New Left, by the way. Subject: Re: 9/11 conspiracy challenged   ...
Following our meeting yesterday, in which we discussed Althusser (specifically his essay on "Contradiction and Overdetermination"), and at the prompt of Paige,...
Chris, Not trying to be provocative--well, OK a bit provocative--but here is something I do not quite understand. I have been reading two books--standard...
But I think Kafka had it right ;-( <<The Truth about Sancho Panza Without making any boast of it Sancho Panza succeeded in the course of years, by feeding him...
Richard, I think that the issue is not the (superficial) similarity between a Cardinal Richelieu and a Chancellor Bismarck. I would not define subjectivity, in...
I'm not sure I understand the emoticon: ;-( A sad face winking? Let us hope that Leftism is more than sophisticated entertainment! (I think Kafka's observation...
Just to clarify Richard's point in posting this: we are sympathetic to Carl Davidson's disputing of any 9-11 US govt. conspiracies (although he himself engaged...
The example I brought up was meant to raise a philosophical question about how we should regard the past and the "objective"? difference between a period when...
"At that moment pre-emptive strikes form various sides were conceivable. The actors in the multicentric system fell apart into fractions. What do the sections...
I would like to revist the question of the relationship between the revolution to "push forward" bourgeois modernity and the struggle for socialism. In the...
I agree with Chris completely here. When Chris quotes Benjamin about reading "history against the grain", I am reminded also of a line in Percy Bysshe...
Actually, I was also thinking about Kipling's invocation of fairies in "Puck of Pook's Hill" and "Rewards and Fairies". But here the "fairy" is a symbol not of...
I want to pose a question regarding the readings on `revolutionary leadership' mainly over a point of confusion I have over the difference between a...
I am not sure why Slaughter does not use the term organic intellectual. It is possible he was dealing with an earlier, different (and perhaps incomplete) ...
The Platypus reading group meeting yesterday, Sun. 7/23/06 was concerned with the question of revolutionary leadership in the context of the crisis of the Old...
[Richard wrote the following in response to my characterization of Israel as a "democratic" state (following the controversy raised by several group members at...
I want to respond to Richards comments about Israel/ Palestine, because I think the present discussion needs to address the issue in a more critical light....
I do not have time for a long response. I do not object to the term Israel\Palestine. They are in fact the same place. Apartheid and Zionism have in many...
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