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Chicago Platypus
Archive for July, 2009
Platypus Review Issue # 13 is out!

The role of socialists in the civil war in Sri Lanka Rohini Hensman THE GRUESOME FINALE of Sri Lanka’s 26-year-long civil war drew international attention and considerable concern for the plight of civilians trapped in the war zone. Many people for the first time became aware of a conflict which had already claimed more than [...]

Hello Chicago!

Welcome to the new Platypus Chicago website! We will be doing extensive work this summer. But in the meantime check out our summer 2009 reading group schedule: Radical bourgeois philosophy: Kant-Hegel-Nietzsche

What is Platypus?
The Platypus Affiliated Society, established in December 2006, organizes reading groups, public fora, research and journalism focused on problems and tasks inherited from the “Old” (1920s-30s), “New” (1960s-70s) and post-political (1980s-90s) Left for the possibilities of emancipatory politics today.