I am going to this tonight, others should join. If anybody wants to go together please feel free to call me at 312.451.8507. best to all, Laurie ... Teamsters...
The real question is what is necessary for our growth and eventual displacement of the bad "Left." I don't think that we will be able -- ever -- to convince...
Hey everyone, For the Platypus BBQ at the Plaines Project this Monday (Labor Day) we are asking everyone to bring either 10 bucks for food and drink, or just...
I discovered this author, Nina Power, while perusing various books on the web, looking for sources for Rosa Luxemburg's writings. Nina Power is a student and ...
Tom: me again, w/another installment in the continuing saga of my little marxist reading group.... I'd like to know if you can tell me some good sources (and...
( -- Who's "Tom"?) As far as our "little Marxist reading group" is concerned, no one in Platypus has ever said that commitment to "necessary evils" in either...
oops...apologies everyone. I just realized I inadvertantly sent a personal email to this list. I am in the process of trying to formulate a response to Chris's...
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I just wanted to briefly respond to something Chris pointed out about my most recent post. In describing the existence of "leadership" in the group as...
P.S. My point is that every time a potential Leftist anywhere in the world picks up a book by Antonio Negri instead of one by Trotsky, or Lenin, or Luxemburg,...
The point is that we do have something of a (pedagogical) "program" to be "down with." Hence, our statement of purpose, and our practical (public educational)...
Please come and join a few platipi to a visit to the Smart Museum on Saturday September 8th @ 2:00pm. *Smart Museum of Art* University of Chicago 5550 S....
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Hussein Ibish is one of these people who have been crossing my path for about twenty years now. He was at U Mass when Chris and I were at Hampshire. My...
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I was shocked (or perhaps not) to read, in the latest issue of New Left Review, an article by Alexander Cockburn (of The Nation and Counterpunch), on "Whatever...
Dear Chris, I'd like to open this up a bit. I've not been around for all of our discussion on Iraq, so this would be largely for my own self-clarification, ...
(An item from today's news: see link below.) We screened the film Cry Freedom as part of the History of the Left series this summer; while far more political...
There is no "Left" to the Iraqi "resistance;" the only groups I know of on the "Left" in Iraq all oppose the extant military resistance/insurgency and its...
I agree with all that you write and, indeed, it flows from many of our conversations in the past. But I want to take up this fantastic passage from Trotsky...
Indeed, here, in Trotsky's thought figures, are the limits of a politics whose axis is the "class struggle," and the problem with trying to derive a politics...
I'll reserve my fire on Chomsky when he comes out to condemn the adulation he's received from bin Laden (and also Chavez!). Otherwise, I'll just take the...
Let me spell out my potential differences more clearly: I take no comfort whatsoever in the fact that the U.S. and the political process it is fostering is...
Reminder from: platypus1917 Yahoo! Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/platypus1917/cal Platypus Marxist reading group 1: The absence of the Left Sunday...
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