Platypus Melbourne

Platypus Affiliated Society, University of Melbourne Chapter - Hosting the conversation on the death of the Left. - 'The Left is Dead! Long live the Left!'

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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!

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Platypus ANU at Market Day

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@barb1917 @IBT1917 It was great talking with you today, Bonne fête!

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@actuallyadu 👀

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PASCON26 Panel: "The Crisis of the American Revolution"
Chris Cutrone (@ccutrone1970 @platypus1917 )
Edith Fischer (@revcomorg )
Ingar Solty (@rosaluxstiftung )
https://t.co/q0FZU8r4zv

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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)

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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!

https://t.co/fFqSHOUmIO

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PASCON26 Panel: "A Century After Debs"
Andrea Bauer (@FSP_US)
Mark Burrows (@railroadworkers)
Carlos Garrido (@ACPMain )
Ed Remus (@platypus1917)
https://t.co/WxShnrAE2W

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@Revmira_1921 👀

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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: https://t.co/wfyJLq6l19

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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)

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@correnterosso 👀

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How my Capital Volume 3 reading group’s going

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@correnterosso 👀

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"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!
https://t.co/fFqSHOUmIO

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Reading Cutrone on the bus and shaking my head the whole time so people don’t think I support MAGA communism

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PASCON26 is coming up!

Details: https://t.co/ozK3O81Aih

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https://t.co/NigUHhl2rL

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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!

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@correnterosso 👀

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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.