Platypus Affiliated Society, University of Melbourne Chapter - Hosting the conversation on the death of the Left. - 'The Left is Dead! Long live the Left!'
Melbourne, Australia
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Next Wed 17th Sept, join Platypus at UniMelb for a public dialogue and discusison with Andy Blunden, who was the first to burn his draft card in 1966, was a revolutionary Marxist and intensely studied the German philosopher Hegel and his and his insightful inheritor, Karl Marx!
Platypus ANU is very pleased to announce our panel for Semester 2 2026. It will be held on the 5th of October at 5pm in the Engineering Theatre at ANU. The panel is on the topic of the relationship of the Left to history. We hope to see you all there!
Video available now from the public workshop with the Revolutionary Communist Organization (AKA @communist_unity) members Edith Fischer (@revdefeatist ) and Alice, and the 2026 Platypus International Convention in Chicago!
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PASCON26 Panel: "The Crisis of the American Revolution"
Chris Cutrone (@ccutrone1970 @platypus1917 )
Edith Fischer (@revcomorg )
Ingar Solty (@rosaluxstiftung )
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"Bonaparte would like to appear as the patriarchal benefactor of all classes. But he cannot give to one without taking from another. [...] This contradictory task of the man explains the contradictions of his government" - Marx "the 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte" (1852)
Platypus Sydney will be meeting at Sappho Books, Glebe on Sunday 17th May, 11AM. They will be discussing two articles on the “Party Question”.
All welcome!
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PASCON26 Panel: "A Century After Debs"
Andrea Bauer (@FSP_US)
Mark Burrows (@railroadworkers)
Carlos Garrido (@ACPMain )
Ed Remus (@platypus1917)
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Platypus Melbourne retweeted
Platypus Review issue 186 is here!
@tonyteso offers a Marxist critique of the DSA, @Yassinhs is interviewed on Syria before and after its civil war without a Left, and Peter Dale Scott discusses the meaning of revolution and America today.
Online: platypus1917.org/category/pr…
The 'end-of-ideology' is of course itself an ideology — a fragmentary one, to be sure, and perhaps more a mood. [It] is in reality the ideology of an ending; the ending of political reflection itself as a public fact.
- C. Wright Mills (1960)
"Today, the Left in Aus resembles the Aus Left as it was prior to the October Revolution, ...
This is the sense in which I say that the 20th century turned out to be a mistake."
Andy Blunden - "The party question" out in the Platypus Review today!
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Platypus UMelb on the south lawn today with a bunch of friends. They're all just out of frame, laughing too.
Platypus ANU's first event of the year is a public teach-in entitled "Does Marxism even matter?", held in Marie Reay 3.03 on Wednesday the 25th of February at 6pm. Hope to see some of you there!
