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The Platypus Review

Latest Issue: #155

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  • What is the critique of capitalism?
    On October 8, 2022, the Platypus Affiliated Society hosted this panel at the New School, NYC as part of its East Coast Conference. The panelists were Tom Canel, D. L. Jacobs (Platypus), Daniel Lazare (CPGB, Weekly Worker), Saira Rafiee (CUNY), and Jochem Schmon (New School).
  • The Left has transformed the world: An interview with Eli Zaretsky
    On July 18, 2022, Platypus Affiliated Society members D. L. Jacobs and R. W. Martins interviewed Eli Zaretsky, professor of History at The New School for Social Research, about his book Why America Needs a Left (2012) and the significance of the history and legacy of the New Left for the possibility of a Left today.

Editorial Statement

Taking stock of the universe of positions and goals that constitutes leftist politics today, we are left with the disquieting suspicion that a deep commonality underlies the apparent variety: What exists today is built upon the desiccated remains of what was once possible. [...] 

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- The University of Chicago
- Student Government
Dalhousie
- Student Union

Loyola
- University of Chicago

- School of the Art Institute of Chicago
- Student Government

- The New School
- New York University
- The University of Illinois at Chicago
- The Platypus Affiliated Society

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