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Chicago Platypus
Archive for December, 2009
Platypus Review #18 now online

Ian Morrison offers an answer to the question: Why was it that the revolutionary potential of the working class seemed to melt into air? Atiya Khan recounts the impoverished politics of the Pakistiani People’s Party. David Black comments on Chris Cutrone’s review of Karl Korsch’s Marxism and Philosophy. Ryan Hardy reviews this past summer’s Public [...]

Workers in a Time of War Forum now online.

Check out the audio recording of the Workers in a Time of War event.

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.