I am not well versed in the specifics of the various affiliations, sympathies, etc. within the historical left, but I would like to comment on the more ...
(Hopefully the following will not prove too abstruse!) I think that it is important to differentiate the issue of dialectics on several levels, and to be clear...
A place to publish your ideas... Dear AREA Chicago Friends and Allies, As many of you know, AREA Chicago (www.areachicago.org) is currently developing the 3rd ...
I'm glad that there is some recognition of the fruitful quality of trying to reconcile and recombine the revolutionary Marxist tradition with Frankfurt School...
Hi all, I think the debate surrounding Kronstadt turns upon a larger issue, namely whether or not one sees Leninist vanguardism, his model of the party, and...
No agreement or understanding is possible when it is not desired! I think John's email indicates a determination not to even try to understand, and therefore...
Let me try to respond to some of Chris’s points: No agreement or understanding is possible when it is not desired! J: Are agreement and understanding only...
No, agreement is not *mandatory*! (If feel that this is a childish objection on your part, John.) But an *attempt* at *trying* to *understand* (meaning, a ...
About Benjamin's "angel of history" being on the side of history supposedly represented by the Kronstadters in 1921: Benjamin *himself* would not agree! But,...
I would like to commend John for his thoughtful responses to the present discussion. He addressed many of my concerns with the Platypus project. Chris's...
I am writing to respond to an aspect of the recent debate over the legacy of revolutionary Marxism and the possibility (if any exists at all) of a Left ...
If I am to be accused of playing fast and loose with the facts, then I think that deserve such accusations to be specified. Which facts are in dispute? The...
I actually think the Sparts are quite scholarly in their own way having read quite a bit of both Spart and non-Spart material. That their ideas are not taken...
I wish she would leave "Boolean algebra" out of it. I know that the Nazis regarded the theory of Relativity as "Jewish physics", but is it not equally racist...
The below passage is taken from my dissertation proposal on city planning in Berlin (a critique of David Harvey by way of Moishe Postone) and so will appear...
... Apologies for running on--Chris's latest post just reminded me of one point I forgot to include in my last message. I said that whether you consider the...
I have no problem with any of this. Nor do I assume that the revolutionary fervor just began in Russia and spread elsewhere. Indeed anyone with a sympathy for...
But again it is not 1916 that was the turning point of German history but 1919 when THE REVOLUTION FAILED. If Lenin and Trotsky are to blame are Luxemburg and...
Please find attached the flyer we produced on the occasion of advertising Platypus at the 1st national conference of the (refounded) Students for a Democratic...
I am writing to address the issue of 1917 vs. 1968 for reformulating a Left politics in the present. As John recently put it: "I'm not particularly drawn to...
I would go even further than Chris in a certain way. I think the preference for 1968 is symptomatic of a defeatist mentality on the left. What is perhaps most...
I wanted to address the issue of the "living" vs. the "dead" in Marx, Lenin, Luxemburg, Trotsky, Adorno, et al. What is "living" and what is "dead" in...
First of all, "the white race" and "capitalism" are radically different categories and that someone capable of as much sophistication as Susan Sontag would...
I was just forwarded these two pieces by a friend. The subject is a specifically Middle Eastern one about Mizrachi ("Oriental" i.e. of North African and Middle...
here are some further reflections and responses to some of the points Chris and Richard made. This will probably be my last intervention for a while... Best, ...
I wanted to add to Chris and Richard's sentiments here with an acknowledgement that the very idea of Platypus is without a doubt a greater outrage to many...
Three points which do not actually require (re)stating, but I will summarize anyway: 1.) The Bolsheviks' conception of the revolutionary party was not the same...
Because there is now more than ample evidence of an assiduous avoidance of the inconvenient facts on Kronstadt, and since I am the moderator of this ...
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