Reading Group Winter 2011
Last modified: February 13, 2011Platypus Queens organizes a weekly Reading Group starting 2011. The group meets every Monday, 5:00 PM in 142 Polson Room, JDUC (map).
The following are links to the reading.
Please feel free to contact us: queens@platypus1917.org
• Required Readings
+ Suggested Readings
Feb 7th
• The Decline of the Left in the 20th Century: Toward a Theory of Historical Regression
+ (Video recording)
Feb 14th
• Anderson, Cutrone, Kreitman, Postel, and Turl, Forum: Imperialism: what is it, why should we be against it?
+ Leonard, “Going it alone: Christopher Hitchens and the death of the Left”
+ Cutrone, “Iraq and election: the fog of anti-war politics”
Feb 28th
• Postone, “History and helplessness: mass mobilization and contemporary forms of anticapitalism”
• Postone interviewed by Blumberg and Nogales
March 7th
• Albert, Cutrone, Duncombe, and Holmes, Forum: The 3 Rs: reform, revolution and “resistance:” the problematic forms of “anti-capitalism” today
• Rubin et al., Forum: What is a movement?
March 14th
• Marx, “Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts” (1844)
• Marx and Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848)
• Cutrone, “Symptomology: historical transformations in social-political context”
• Cutrone, “Capital in history: the need for a Marxian philosophy of history of the Left
March 21st
• Cutrone, Duncombe, Korte, Post, and Street, Forum: Progress or regress? the future of the Left under Obama
+ Cutrone, Obama: three comparisons: MLK, JFK, FDR
+ Cutrone, Obama: Progress in regress: The end of “black politics”
March 28th
• Reed, “Black particularity reconsidered”
• Reed, “The limits of anti-racism”
April 4th
• Kolakowski, “The concept of the Left”
April 11th
• Horkheimer, selections from Dämmerung
• Adorno, “Imaginative excesses”
+ Cutrone, “Adorno’s Leninism”
April 18th
• Cutrone, Morrison, and Rubin, The Platypus synthesis: history, theory, and practice
