Our recent interlocutor on this list, Angelus Novus, was in the following dialogue last December on Platypus, on our debates with Principia Dialectica and the...
Christopher Cutrone
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May 1, 2009 5:23 pm
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Benjamin Shepard
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May 2, 2009 6:01 am
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I suspect this one is going to be slippery, so the reviewer will need to have his gloves on tight before taking hold of it. Let me know if you want to take a...
Hello, I just wanted to report back on the Paul D'Amato talk last night that a few of us went to. The talk was held in the basement of the JP branch Boston...
Thanks a lot, Haseeb, for this report. It sounds like a good and instructive intervention. 2 things: 1.) We don't have nearly as much in common with groups...
Jason Dawsey and I screened this video for our Spring sections of Self, Culture and Society at the Univ. Chicago when we taught Marcuse's book Eros and...
P.S. I would like to put the matter another way: Rather than thinking, as the ISO, et al. do, that it is a matter of the U.S. vs. the Iraqi insurgents and...
We need to try to find some way to engage this sort of conversation that is taking place -- Stalinism's gathering last hurrah that Obama's election has...
It sounds to me like you two, Soren and Haseeb, ably defended my article. I appreciate it. As Chris says, the point of that article is to say that, as ...
I am writing with some comments on Platypus and the Iraq invasion and occupation, in part because of the recent intervention made by Platypi in Boston at a...
I am writing with some notes on our readings from Luxemburg and Trotksy on the Bolshevik Revolution and the greater revolutionary crisis of 1917-19. I will...
Adolph Reed recommended the following during his talk here at the University of Chicago back in February. I have a copy of it for review if anyone is...
While Trotsky's Results and Prospects (1906) has proved uncontroversial on the Platypus syllabus, as an integral part of the discussion of "2nd Intl....
Hi All, I know a teacher (at an urban school in Chicago) who is teaching her students Orwell's *Animal Farm*. She's asked me for a good way to introduce ...
I think that the best intro is Marx and Engels's Manifesto, which was lucid and impressive enough for me at age 13 when I first read it, much younger than...
As a pre-service English/Social Studies teacher, the possibilities for this excite me beyond belief! I think you can turn to Orwell's own words to provide...
Weger, Ashley
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May 6, 2009 4:13 am
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I agree with Chris that you don't need to find anything particularly "age appropriate" with high schoolers. Students in their first year at the University of...
"Age appropriate" is less necessary than recognizing what knowledge students have, and how a conversation concerning capitalism/socialism/Marxism can be...
Weger, Ashley
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May 6, 2009 11:57 am
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Question Re: Marx's theory of value I am presenting to you an interesting exchange that took place between myself and a fellow student in a class we are taking...
... No, because abstract labor is not an empirically existing "substance"; abstract labor is a relation of effective social validity ("Geltungsverhältnis")...
I think the easiest way to think about it is this: If one finds this diamond, once it is "added to the pile" it--in however small a way--has lowered the cost...
The idea that labor "adds something" to nature is not Marx, but goes all the way back to John Locke. Marx's point is not that labor "adds something" at all,...
Greg Gabrellas
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May 7, 2009 6:18 pm
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Angelus Novus's main point seems to have been missed, which is that it is exchange relations and not production -- or production only as it is intrinsically...
But, what Marx would say is, "money" is not money (does not "attain to its concept" as universal equivalent) until modern wage-labor and capital. Capital is...
The video from the Contemporary Student Left panel discussion and Q&A at the Left Forum 2009 conference, at which our members Pam Nogales and Laurie Rojas...
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