The Platypus review reader
Subtitle: 2007-2014
By: edited by Spencer A. Leonard
Publisher: Platypus Publishing
Published: 2015
Place of publication: [United States?]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 567
ISBN-13: 9780996206112; 9780996206105
Subjects: Socialism; New Left; Political science; Philosophy; Right and left (Political science); Communism; Social change; Democracy; Civil disobedience; Occupy movement; World politics
Other titles: Platypus review.
Notes: A collection of articles previously published in the journal Platypus review.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Statement of purpose of the Platypus review; title: Marxism in the 20th century. The decline of the left in the 20th century : toward a theory of historical regression / Benjamin Blumberg, Chris Cutrone, Atiya Khan, Spencer A. Leonard, and Richard Rubin ; Learning from the Communist movement of the 20th century : a response to Richard Rubin / Grover Furr; title: The anti-war movement. Imperialism : what is it? Why should we be against it? / Kevin Anderson, Chris Cutrone, Nick Kreitman, Danny Postel, and Adam Turl ; The 3 Rs : reform, revolution, and "resistance" : the problematic forms of "anti-capitalism" today / Michael Albert, Chris Cutrone, Stephen Duncombe, and Brian Holmes ; Going it alone : Christopher Hitchens and the death of the left / Spencer A. Leonard; title: The legacy of the new left. To the victor, the spoils : review of Artforum's May 2008 issue "May '68" / Benjamin Blumberg ; Book review : Frantz Fanon, Black skin, white masks / Sunit Singh ; You don't need a Marxist to know which way the wind blows : an interview with Mark Rudd / Spencer A. Leonard and Atiya Khan ; Chinoiserie : a critique of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA's "new synthesis" / Chris Curtone ; Up in the air : the legacy of the New Communist movement : an interview with Max Elbaum / Spencer A. Leonard ; Which way forward for sexual liberation? / Kenyon Farrow, Greg Gabrellas, Gary Mucciaroni, and Sherry Wolf ; Emancipation in the heart of darkness : an inteview with Juliet Mitchell / Sunit Singh ; "These petrified relations must be forced to dance" : an interview with Dick Howard / Douglas La Rocca and Spencer A. Leonard; title: Israel-Palestine. Which way forward for Palestine liberation? / Hussein Ibish and Joel Kovel with Richard Rubin ; Communism and Israel / Initiative Sozialistisches Forum ; German psycho : a reply to the Initiative Sozialistisches Forum / Felix Baum ; Marxism and Israel : left perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict / Alan Goodman and Richard Rubin; title: The election of Barack Obama. Progress or regress? The future of the left under Obama / Chris Cutrone, Stephen Duncombe, Pat Korte, Charles Post, and Paul Street ; Black politics in the age of Obama / Cedric Johnson and Mel Rothenberg; title: The economic crisis. Living Marxism / James Heartfield ; Why the U. S. stimulus package is bound to fail / David Harvey ; Symptomology : historical transformations in social-political context / Chris Cutrone ; Resurrecting the '30s : a response to David Harvey and James Heartfield / Ian Morrison ; Letter from Greece : brief notes on revolt and crisis in Greece and the Greek situation / Thodoris Velissaris ; Radical interpretations of the present crisis / David Graeber, Saul Newman, Hillel Ticktin, and James Woudhuysen ; The politics of work / Stanley Aronowitz, Robert Pollin, and Jason Wright; title: Art. Is the funeral for the wrong corpse? An interview with Hal Foster / Omair Hussain and Bret Schneider ; "I can't go on, I'll go on" : a response to questionnaire on "The contemporary" in October and "What is contemporary art?" in e-flux / Chris Mansour ; After Hegel : an interview with Robert Pippin / Omair Hussain; title: The history of Marxism. Marx after Marxism : an interview with Moishe Postone / Benjamin Blumberg and Pam C. Nogales C. ; Capital in history : the need for a Marxian philosophy of history on the left / Chris Cutrone ; An unmet challenge : race and the left in America / Benjamin Blumberg ; Angainst dogmatic abstraction : a critique of Cindy Milstein on anarchism and Marxism / Chris Cutrone ; The Marxist hypothesis : a response to Alain Badiou's "communist hypothesis" / Chris Cutrone ; Overcoming bourgeois right : an interview with Mel Rothenberg / Spencer A. Leonard ; The politics of critical theory / Nicholas Brown, Chris Cutrone, Andrew Feenberg, and Richard Westerman ; Subject, class, and the Hegelian legacy in critical social theory / Timothy Hall ; The elusive "threads of historical progress" : the early Chartists and the young Marx and Engels / David Black ; Marx and Wertkritik / Elmar Flatschart, Jamie Merchant, and Alan Milchman; title: Lenin. Lenin's liberation / Chris Cutrone ; October 1921 : Lenin looks back / Lars T. Lih ; Lenin's legacy today / Tamas Krausz ; Lenin's politics : a rejoinder to David Adam on Lenin's liberalism / Chris Cutrone ; Lenin and the Marxist left after #Occupy / Ben Lewis and Tom Riley with Chris Cutrone ; The relevance of Lenin today / Chris Cutrone; title: The #Occupy movement / A cry of protest before accommodation? The dialectic of emancipation and domination / Chris Cutrone ; The #Occupy movement, a renascent left, and Marxism today : an interview with Slavoj Žižek / Haseeb Ahmed with Chris Cutrone ; The movement as an end-in-itself? An interview with David Graeber / Ross Wolfe ; What is the #Ocuppy movement? A roundtable discussion / Hannah Appel, Jeremy Cohan, Erik Van Deventer, Brian Dominick, and Nathan Schneider; title: Epilogue. Class consciousness (from a Marxist perspective) today / Chris Cutrone ; Appendices. I. What is a platypus? On surviving the extinction of the left ; II. A short history of the left ; III. Statement of purpose of the Platypus Affiliated Society ; IV. The platypus synthesis / Ian Morrison, Richard Rubin, and Chris Cutrone.