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Platypus Review #20 is finally online!

Issue #20 is replete with replies and rejoinders to previous articles.  There’s also an edited transcript of the recent panel on 30 years of the Islamic Revolution.

Uli vom Hagen replies to Jerzy Sabotta, on the legacy of Rosa Luxemburg and the German Left.

Manan Ahmed replies to Atiya Khan, on the poverty of Pakistan’s politics and the Taliban.

Chris Cutrone rejoins to David Black, on Karl Korsch’s Marxism and Philosophy.

Spencer Leonard talks with George Scialabba, on what intellectuals are good for.

Joshua Howard discusses totality and theory, Left cognition and social change, arguing that the Marxian theory of totality has had enervating effects on the ability of the radical Left to imagine alternatives to capitalism.

Finally, there is an edited transcript of a recent panel at the University of Chicago, 30 years of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, with Danny Postel, Kaveh Ehsani, Maziar Behrooz, and Chris Cutrone.

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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.