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Σας προσκαλούμε  την Τετάρτη,  30/5, στις 6 το απόγευμα, σε μια συζήτηση με το παραπάνω θέμα, για τις προβληματικές μορφές του αντικαπιταλισμού σήμερα.

Ομιλητές:
Νικόλας Σεβαστάκης - Αναπλ. καθηγητής του τμήματος Πολιτικών Επιστημών του Α.Π.Θ.
Θοδωρής Καρυώτης - Μέλος εγχειρημάτων άμεσης δημοκρατίας και αλληλέγγυας οικονομίας
Άρης Τσιούμας - Μέλος της Κίνησης Εργατικής Χειραφέτησης και Αυτοοργάνωσης
Κώστας Γούσης - Μέλος του Νέου Αριστερού Ρεύματος (ΝΑΡ)

Στο "Στέκι Συλλόγων Φοιτητών Φιλοσοφικής" (αριστερά του Αμφ. Ά, στο ισόγειο του νέου κτιρίου της Φιλοσοφικής Σχολής Α.Π.Θ.).

Η αφίσα της εκδήλωσης:

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Sunday, May 20th, Platypus is meeting up at 11 am at Cafe Baci (20 N. Michigan) 1 hour before the beginning of the march to get organized, distribute signs and fliers. We are going to leave Baci at 11:30 to walk over to the rally at Petrillo Band Shell in Grant Park

“After the failure of the 1960s New Left, the underlying despair with regard to the real efficacy of political will, of political agency, in a historical situation of heightened helplessness, became a self-constitution as outsider, as other, rather than an instrument of transformation. Focused on the bureaucratic stasis of the Fordist, late 20th Century world, the Left echoed the destruction of that world by the dynamics of capital: neoliberalism and globalization.

The idea of a fundamental transformation became bracketed and, instead, was replaced by the more ambiguous notion of ‘resistance.’ The notion of resistance, however, says little about the nature of that which is being resisted, or of the politics of the resistance involved.

‘Resistance’ is rarely based on a reflexive analysis of possibilities for fundamental change that are both generated and suppressed by the dynamic heteronomous order of capital. ‘Resistance’ is an undialectical category that does not grasp its own conditions of possibility; it fails to grasp the dynamic historical context of capital and its reconstitution of possibilities for both domination and emancipation, of which the ‘resisters’ do not recognize that that they are a part.”

— Moishe Postone, “History and Helplessness: Mass Mobilization and Contemporary Forms of Anticapitalism” (Public Culture¸ 18.1: 2006)

Reform, revolution, resistance: what kind of weight do these categories hold for the Left today? How are they used, to where do they point, and what is their history? Join the Platypus Affiliated Society for an international series of discussions concerning a question that has renewed immediacy in light of the #Occupy movement.

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/// Frankfurt /// 6.25.12

/// London /// 6.13.12

/// Thessaloniki /// 5.30.12

/// NYC /// 4.26.12

/// Boston /// 4.16.12

/// Toronto /// 3.14.12

/// Dalhousie /// 1.19.12

Chicago
Saturdays 1–4PM

School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC)
112 S. Michigan Ave. room 920

Facebook invitation: http://www.facebook.com/events/339098822822962/

• required / + recommended reading

Film screening: May 2012

• Last Party 2000 (2001)

Week 1. May 26, 2012

Marx and democracy

• Dick Howard, selections from The Specter of Democracy (2002)
+ Howard, “Philosophy by other means?” (2001) (original version of Chapter 13 of The Specter of Democracy)
+ Benjamin Constant, “The liberty of the ancients compared with that of the moderns” (1819)
+ Karl Marx, On Bruno Bauer’s The Jewish Question (1844)
+ Marx, Critique of the Gotha Programme (1875)
+ Chris Cutrone, “Lenin’s liberalism” and “Lenin’s politics” (2011)

Week 2. Jun. 2, 2012

Communist Party of Great Britain debates Platypus

• Selected articles from Weekly Worker, May 12 – August 11, 2011
+ Original pages of Weekly Worker
• Ben Lewis, “Chicago school” (letter in Weekly Worker 914, May 17, 2012)
• Chris Cutrone, letter in response to Ben Lewis (May 17, 2012)
+ Danny Hammill, “Debate, controversy and comradeship” (on the 2011 CPGB Communist University summer school, Weekly Worker 879, September 1, 2011, p. 11)
+ Spencer Leonard, “Adam Smith’s profoundest reader: Marx” (Weekly Worker 895, December 22, 2011, pp. 12–14)

June 16 – July 28

Trotsky and Trotskyism

Recommended preliminary readings:

+ Tariq Ali and Phil Evans, Introducing Trotsky and Marxism / Trotsky for Beginners (1980)
+ Nicolas Krassó, “Trotsky’s Marxism” (1967)
• Platypus Historians Group, “The dead Left: Trotskyism” (2008)
• Richard Rubin, “The decline of the Left in the 20th century: 1933″ (2009)
• Ian Morrison, “Trotsky’s Marxism” (2011)
• Mike Macnair, Bryan Palmer, Richard Rubin, and Jason Wright, “The legacy of Trotskyism” (2011)
• Grover Furr, “Learning from the Communist Movement of the 20th century: A response to Richard Rubin”(2012)
+ Spartacist League, Lenin and the Vanguard Party (1978)
+ Richard Appignanesi and Oscar Zarate / A&Z, Introducing Lenin and the Russian Revolution / Lenin for Beginners (1978)
+ Isaac Deutscher, The Prophet: Trotsky biography (three volumes: 1954, 1959, 1963)

The Platypus Affiliated Society and The Book Society present:
Andrew Kiman

on his new book

The Failure of Capitalist Production:

Underlying Causes of the Great Recession

Sunday, June 17, 20012, 5PM

@ The Book Society
더 북 소사이어티 The Book Society

서울특별시 마포구 합정동 371-4

02-325-5336 ‎

(*Get out of Exit #7 of Hapjeong Station, and you will see the bakery Tous Les Jours. Take that street and go straight until you find the restaurant with a wooden decoration on your left. Turn left at that corner and you will see the book society)

Andrew Kliman is Professor of Economics at Pace University, New York

http://akliman.squarespace.com/
Platypus is a new international journal of critical letters and emancipatory politics, dedicated to the reconstitution of the Marxian Left (forthcoming).

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.

http://www.platypus1917.com
For updates about events in Seoul, please visit http://seoul.platypus1917.org/ or contact aamusing at gmail.com.