There's a lot of bad "Marxism" to Richard's post. For example, looking forward to class struggle in Israel as a result of worsening economic conditions for...
Chris¹ point about gender is correct. I merely meant that unlike ³race² and ³sexuality² SOME aspects of ³maleness² and ³femaleness² have a biological ...
I would like to quote from my original (April 29) message: "I think we need to try to think about what an emancipatory politics that is not based in -- that...
<<I have cut cane myself more than once as a moral duty, as have many other comrade leaders of the country. I remember August of 1969. I chose a place close...
... Re: [platypus1917] Re: "class" On 5/1/07 12:10 PM, "Chris Cutrone" <schwartzweiss@...> wrote: <<Similarly with "class:" obviously, forms of class ...
I think that the struggle to overcome capital is distinct from the class struggle, meaning, the overthrow of the capitalists. While overcoming capital involves...
As usual, I am unsure what the object of critique here is. What is ³traditional Marxism²? It certainly seems much broader than the New Left. One of the...
I think there is always the danger of falling victim to the "Platypus effect" -- the misrecognition born of confusion that is our actual object of critique. I...
What worries me on the contrary about Platypus is the tendency to move the level and object of critique at times to an excessively abstract and philosophical...
It's not a failure of *reading* that *caused* the disaster of 20th Century Marxism (this is a caricature of Postone), of course! But where else should we go...
Modern physical science starts from grasping the hidden and theoretically-grasped reality that all matter is in a constant process of change. While opening...
Adorno has always been misrecognized, especially since the 1960s, as a conservative, because he was willing to be critical of and didn't romanticize workers...
I am writing to clarify a fundamental matter of recent controversy: the discussion of "class struggle." The approach the reading group has taken towards Marx ...
... Re: [platypus1917] re: class, Adorno, alternative conception << Modern physical science starts from grasping the hidden and theoretically-grasped reality...
Richard, I was simply drawing an analogy between general conceptions- here about science and society- being true but that being inadequate for analyzing ...
I know that some in Platypus may find these strings to be a distraction from our readings, but I have a question: Is Platypus becoming a faith-based ...
OK, I suppose I might have made an overstatement: I think Platypus is probably the only group in the entire world that identifies with both Adorno and Trotsky....
A very quick note to Earl, as i don't have time for anything more right now: I fail to see how enlisting a passage from Adorno (who, yes, many of us are deeply...
Today was the last day of classes this semester and so I finally have time to enter the fray. Earl your recent post is very disparaging, and honestly I am not...
I almost let this get by me: Why is my name in the subject line of this thread?! -- At what point did this kind of singular personal focus become acceptable on...
I'm not entirely sure how to regard Chris' last e-mail, I think that in light of a certain kind of persistent anti-intellectualism, Earl has managed to force ...
Pam's question: "How does one talk about the role of members of society as being non-identical with their empirical existence?" is complimentary to what I was...
I think Ben's elucidation on Marx and class is excellent. Capital is comprised of the conditions of possibility for the emergence and on-going reproduction of...
Dear platypi, It's been a few months since we organized the Webzine Committee and the Glossary Committee, and nothing came out of them. I am not pointing...
The ideas raised here are beyond my ability to respond to in a few pages, so this will be the first of several sends. I hope that this will help clarify some...
This send is Trotsky's 1937 intro to the Manifesto, written for the Afrikaans translation. Chris wrote that Platypus upholds Trotsky along with Adorno. Here...
A lot rests on how capitalism is defined -- to be overcome. While I don't think the Platypus perspective on capital precludes the points of a more traditional...
We will be discussing this text by Trotsky on the Manifesto two reading group sessions from now (as part of our larger discussion of the Manifesto). There's...
The class struggle perspective of traditional Marxism is a necessary practical-political but not sufficient theoretical apprehension of (and hence can lead to...
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