On October 17, 2021, Platypus Affiliated Society members Zeyu Chen and D. L. Jacobs interviewed Anthony Monteiro, a W. E. B. Du Bois scholar and an organizer with the Saturday Free School based in Philadelphia. What follows is an edited transcript of their discussion.
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Daniel Deweese of the Platypus Affiliated Society conducted an interview on November 20, 2021 with Timothy V. Johnson, author of ââDeath for Negro Lynching!â: The Communist Party, USA's Position on the African American Questionâ (2008). What follows is an edited transcript of their conversation.
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IT TOOK THE AMERICAN LEFT until the end of this past summer to formulate a response to the Talibanâs takeover of Afghanistan in the wake of the U.S. military retreat. Indeed, only after a silence so suspicious as to suggest that the Left had nothing at all to say on the matter did it finally find the words it was looking for. As perhaps should have been expected, this response took the form of blaming U.S. imperialism for Afghanistanâs woes.
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Book review: David North and Thomas Mackaman, eds., The New York Timesâ 1619 Project and the Racialist Falsification of History: Essays and Interviews (Oak Park, Michigan.: Mehring Books, 2021).
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LESZEK KOĆAKOWSKIâS âTHE CONCEPT OF THE LEFTâ (1958) is useful for addressing what it means to say that there is a Left and a Right in Marxism. The actual occasion for KoĆakowskiâs article was Soviet Premier and Communist Party head Nikita Khrushchevâs denunciation of Stalin for âcrimes against Leninismâ and against socialism. What did this mean?
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