this week in platypus. 7.5.16 - 7.10.16.

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Robert Weitzer

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Jul 5, 2016, 6:23:52 AM7/5/16
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this week in platypus: 

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weekly coffee breaks

Platypus Coffee Breaks are the informal conversations about the meaning and future of the Left that Platypus hosts on a weekly basis. They are a great time to meet with members of Platypus, fellow travelers, and allies of the group. It’s an opportunity to discuss issues raised in the latest issue of the Platypus Review, consider the state of the Left, and just hang out with people who have similar political interests. Please join us!

newyork.platypus1917.org


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NYC Coffee Break

Tuesdays @ 6:00pm

Think Coffee
//73 8th Ave

Contact:  vcs...@platypus1917.org


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Summer Reading Group: From the First to the Second International. 

6:30 on Wednesdays at SVA. 380 2nd Ave, Rm 804B.*please email me if you plan to attend so I can contact you in the case of a change of location.

Open to the public. 

• required / + recommended reading

for full syllabus: http://platypus1917.org/2016/05/15/summer-2016-1st-2nd-international/

Marx readings pp. from Robert C. Tucker, ed., Marx-Engels Reader (Norton 2nd ed., 1978)

Recommended background readings

+ Edmund Wilson, To the Finland Station: A Study in the Writing and Acting of History(1940), Part II. Ch. 12–16 (from "Marx and Engels go back to writing history" to "Karl Marx dies at his desk")
+ James Joll, The Second International 1889–1914 (1966)


Week 4

• Peter Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread, especially Chapters 3, 11 and 12 (1906)
• Kropotkin, Anarchist Communism (1909)

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