this week in platypus. 7.12.16 - 7.17.16
Robert Weitzer
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!
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NYC Coffee Break
Tuesdays @ 6:00pm
Think Coffee
//73 8th Ave
Contact: vcs...@platypus1917.org
We will be discussing Brexit today. Please read the following short transcript from our recent panel.
http://platypus1917.org/2016/06/18/left-exit-no-brexit/
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• 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 5
• Kautsky, The Road to Power (1909)