4.29.13 - 5.6.13. this week in platypus.

[Brian C Hioe]

this week in platypus: 

may day! 

Come look for us on May Day!  We will be giving a teach-in on the Communist Manifesto at the Cooper Union Free University 

(10 AM-2:30 PM) in front of Cooper Union, details TBA!  Also, come look for the "The Left is Dead! Long Live the Left" banner  

during the rally at Union Square from 4 PM onwards.

upcoming events: 

marxism/anarchism: in the case of victor serge, a book chat with richard greeman

Wednesday, May 8th

//7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

New School, Room 909

//6 East 8th Street, New York, New York 10012

Contact: Brian Hioe

//bch...@nyu.edu

Victor Serge (1890–1947) was an international revolutionary and writer. Originally an anarchist, he joined the Bolsheviks five months 

after arriving in Petrograd in January 1919 and later worked for the Comintern as a journalist, editor and translator. He was critical of 

the Stalinist regime and remained a revolutionary Marxist until his death. Though scattered, his writings have been reassembled and 

translated and kept alive by a small group of radical devotees, most notably Peter Sedgwick and Richard Greeman.

Richard Greeman is a Marxist scholar long active in human rights, anti-war, anti-nuclear, environmental and labor struggles in the U.S., 

Latin America, France, and Russia. Greeman is best known for his studies and translations of the Franco-Russian novelist and 

revolutionary Victor Serge. Greeman also writes regularly about politics, international class struggles and revolutionary theory. 

Co-founder of the Praxis Research and Education Center in Moscow, Russia, Greeman is based in Montpellier, France, where 

he directs the International Victor Serge Foundation.

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! 
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--------------------------------------------------- NYU Tuesdays  //6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Think Coffee  //248 Mercer St.  //between 3rd and 4th St. Contact: Brian Hioe //bch...@nyu.edu --------------------------------------------------- Stony Brook  Tuesdays //4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Stony Brook Union Starbucks //250 Stony Brook Union //Stony Brook, New York Contact: Doug La Rocca //dougl...@gmail.com   --------------------------------------------------- New School Thursdays //6:30 pm - 7:30 pm Lang Café //65 West 11th Street Contact: Ross Wolfe  //rosslaur...@gmail.com

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weekly marxist reading group: what is the left?  what is marxism?

for the full syllabus: http://platypus1917.org/2012/12/11/platypus-primary-marxist-reading-group-winter-spring-2013/

• required / + recommended reading

Week 27. Lessons of October | May 4–5, 2013

• Trotsky, The Lessons of October (1924) [PDF]
+ Trotsky, “Stalinism and Bolshevism” (1937)

--------------------------------------------------- New School Sundays //2:00 pm - 5:00 pm The New School for Social Research //Eugene Lang College Building, Room 258 65 West 11th St  Contact: Ross Wolfe  //rosslaur...@gmail.com

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focused on problems and tasks inherited from the “Old”
(1920s-30s), “New” (1960s-70s) and post-political (1980s-90s)
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