Platypus primary Marxist reading group Sat. 9/11 1-4PM SAIC 112 S. Michigan Ave. room 707

[Christopher Cutrone]

Please come to the first meeting of the Platypus primary Marxist reading group for academic year 2010-11 in Chicago.

Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010 1-4PM
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
112 S. Michigan Ave. room 707

We will begin the academic year meeting at SAIC only Sat. Sept. 11, 18 and 25; thereafter, starting Oct. 2, there will be 2 reading groups in Chicago, meeting at both the University of Chicago in Hyde Park and downtown at SAIC.

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Platypus primary Marxist reading group 2010-11

Fall/Autumn 2010-Winter 2011

I. What is the Left? -- What is Marxism?

* required / + recommended reading

A. Sept. 11, 2010 (SAIC only)

* Moishe Postone, "History and Helplessness: Mass Mobilization and Contemporary Forms of Anticapitalism" (2006)

+ Iraqi Communist Party, Letter about the Situation in Iraq (2006)

* Spartacist League, "The Senile Dementia of Post-Marxism" (2006)

+ Liza Featherstone, Doug Henwood, and Christian Parenti, " 'Action Will Be Taken': Left Anti-Intellectualism and its Discontents" (2002)

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Readings available at:

http://platypus1917.org/2010/09/01/platypus-primary-marxist-reading-group-fallautumn%E2%80%93winter-2010%E2%80%9311/#weeka