Happy New Year! The Platypus primary Marxist reading groups will be resuming in coming weeks. I am writing with notification of the updated schedule, and to...
I am writing because members of Platypus handed out the following flyer at the protest yesterday (Fri., 1/2/09) in downtown Chicago against Israel's assault on...
With the impending inauguration of the Obama Presidency later this month, and calls, since last year's financial meltdown and related economic downturn and...
So what other possible political options are you referring to? At present, what would a marxian politics look like? ...does it exist? is it possible? I...
gabriel
eulerian@...
Jan 4, 2009 10:07 pm
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I think it would be nice if everyone who is planing on attending this event would meet up around 5 in Hyde Park? I am going to be late because of work but I...
Right now, obviously, there is no revolutionary workers' movement in either Israel or Palestine, or in the greater Middle East. So we need to consider what the...
P.S. Practically speaking, of course *liberal* politics might be possible. In other words, the Palestinians could adopt Gandhi-style tactics of passive...
The relation between education and politicization is a very tricky one, for it involves coming to consciousness and transformation of the person. Platypus sets...
In response to Jonathan's defense of Fredric Jameson, I am writing with a relatively unobjectionable review essay by Jameson, "Sandblasting Marx," in the...
... I just sat in on such an awful class that I think I'm seeing an example of this. But, still, you're speaking much more generally than that. How do you...
gabriel
eulerian@...
Jan 6, 2009 6:42 pm
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Yes, of course I am being provocatively generalizing! -- The "malice" I am referring to is not necessarily conscious, but is nonetheless intentional. Meaning,...
Platypus Marxist reading group: Sunday January 11, 2009 1960s paths not taken (1): Civil Rights - Black Power (abridged) "For the black man there is only one...
I have to admit that I find most discussions about Israel and the Palestinians to be very frustrating. This might be due to the contemporary left's fixation on...
Several of us attended a panel discussion by Ali Abunima, John Mearsheimer and Norman Finklestein at the University of Chicago yesterday (Thurs. 1/8). It was...
Actually, Mearsheimer really is a rightwinger even by mainstream standards. He is a Republican. There is actually more debate on Israel-Palestine in the...
But there can be NO doubt that Ali Abunimah and Norman Finklestein et al. are also *actually* Right-wing! -- "The Left is dead!" The Democrats are NOT "to the...
In Christopher Phelps' introduction to Max Schachtman's Race and Revolution book, the orthodox Leninist position of "right to self-determination" kept...
Let me be very brief. The Marxist endorsement of the demand for "national" self-determination was conditioned by an analysis and prognosis of "imperialism" as...
From Worker's Vanguard No. 927 Jan. 2 2009 SDS old and New From Tepid Liberalism to Radicalism and Back Again "...Pushing the myth that communism destroyed the...
Hello All, Since many of us should be back in the area by now, I'd like to continue my neocon reading group where we left off. As some of you may already know,...
I was really struck by this article. As Moishe Postone says ""Modern anti-Semitism is a revolt against history as constituted by Capitalism, misrecognized as a...
Actually, I find this protest against "sisterhood" more symptomatic than the anti-Starbucksism. Futile protests making purely symbolic demands. Petach Tikva...
Howard Schultz---not Starbucks--does in fact donate to rightwing Israeli causes not the Israeli army which is funded by a) (predominantly) Â Israeli taxpayers...
P.S. If I might add: I have added Adorno's short article on "Sexual Taboos and the Law Today" (1963) as a supplemental reading. Mitchell's debate with Quintin...
A small but necessary change for the Hitchens reading group for this coming Thursday at my place. I dropped Kristol's essay "My Cold War" as a secondary...
On Sat. Dec. 6 '08, Platypus put on a public forum on "Progress or regress? The future of the Left under Obama" at New York University, with panelists Paul...
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