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226 [lbo-talk] may 2nd, 1pm, NYU | Forging a Left in Iran: Possibilities and difficulties | A teach-in with Ervand Abrahamian -- rank: 487

... prospects for a Left in Iran with Ervand Abrahamian The Platypus Affiliated Society, in collaboration with United for Iran, Amnesty International ...

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Author:	Jeremy Cohan
Date:	Sat May 1 08:22:57 PDT 2010

227 [lbo-talk] may 2nd, 1pm, NYU | Forging a Left in Iran: Possibilities and difficulties | A teach-in with Ervand Abrahamian -- rank: 487

Due to an NYU building-shuffling (sigh, institutions), there is a NEW LOCATION for the event! Close by, though... *NYU Tisch **Hall* *40 W. 4th St. (4th and Mercer, on the South side of the street)* *Lower Level 2* *Room. LC11* Looking VERY forward to seeing you all there, for some ...

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Author:	Jeremy Cohan
Date:	Sat May 1 14:24:21 PDT 2010

228 [lbo-talk] Crisis of the Left: Doug Henwood, Mike Ely, Stephen Eric Bronner and many others speaking this week! -- rank: 487

... just sent this note to the organizers of Wednesday s Platypus Crisis of the Left panel: On reflection, I ve decided ... s panel. I ve had my reservations about the whole Platypus project for a long time, but in re-reading some ... reservations deepened. But Chris Cutrone s comment on Facebook that Platypus aims more at ideological diversity in our events than race ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 14 07:22:09 PST 2011

229 [lbo-talk] Crisis of the Left: Doug Henwood, Mike Ely, Stephen Eric Bronner and many others speaking this week! -- rank: 487

... just sent this note to the organizers of Wednesday s Platypus Crisis of the Left panel: On reflection, I ve decided ... s panel. I ve had my reservations about the whole Platypus project for a long time, but in re-reading some ... reservations deepened. But Chris Cutrone s comment on Facebook that Platypus aims more at ideological diversity in our events than race ...

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Author:	123hop at comcast.net
Date:	Mon Nov 14 09:51:36 PST 2011

230 [lbo-talk] Why Egypt's Liberal Intellectuals Still Support the Army -- rank: 487

Angelus Novus: "...the Platypus sect, the mission of which consists in concern-trolling leftists..." Wow, best short description of Platypus, ever. On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 4:28 AM ... superior objective position." > > La Rocca is a member of the Platypus sect, the mission of which consists > in concern-trolling leftists ...

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Author:	socialismorbarbarism
Date:	Wed Jan 15 09:01:54 PST 2014

231 [lbo-talk] making the dead left deader -- rank: 385

http://platypus1917.org/the-platypus-synthesis/ -- CC making the dead left deader shag carpet bomb ... with the Platy, what do you make of this stuff: "Platypus asks the questions: How is the thought of critical theorists ...

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Author:	Christopher Cutrone
Date:	Sun Apr 11 13:15:07 PDT 2010

232 [lbo-talk] Where Are We Going? What Are We Doing? -- rank: 385

... judgment.) It is a review by a member of the Platypus Group of a book about the recent, if post 9 ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Thu May 28 11:17:47 PDT 2009

233 [lbo-talk] Lou Proyect responds... -- rank: 385

... on heroes v cowards / Luxembourg. The author, writing about a Platypus gathering, says that the audience wants to know, "are they ...

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Author:	shag carpet bomb
Date:	Fri Feb 10 03:29:43 PST 2012

234 [lbo-talk] Reports on Iran translated and posted by U.S. Marxist-Humanists -- rank: 385

forwarded from [platypus1917] http://www.usmarxisthumanists.org/node/12 In Iran, voices of revolt of students and workers Tue, 06/23/2009 - 12:41 — Anonymous ’This place is a thousand times worse than Guantanamo’ Excerpts from a report on the torture of students arrested At Tehran University from Akhbar Rooz ...

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Author:	shag carpet bomb
Date:	Wed Jul 1 14:59:08 PDT 2009

235 [lbo-talk] lbo-talk Digest, Vol 1187, Issue 5 -- rank: 385

... 9 12:49:16 PDT 2010 * Previous message: [lbo-talk] Platypus: what we are, what we do, and why * Next message: [lbo-talk] Platypus: what we are, what we do, and why * Messages sorted ...

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Author:	Christopher Cutrone
Date:	Fri Apr 9 12:56:25 PDT 2010

236 [lbo-talk] A good essay on Christopher Hitchens -- rank: 385

... think it takes Hitchens way too seriously. Who are these Platypus people, do you know? A point about Raymond Williams, since ...

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Author:	Mike Beggs
Date:	Fri Apr 17 19:03:35 PDT 2009

237 [lbo-talk] Theories of surplus value -- rank: 385

Doug Henwood wrote: > > On Jul 18, 2010, at 5:40 PM, Julio Huato wrote: > > >[clip[ In other words, revolutionary > > practice does not need revolutionary theory. Let's clarify a bit. This comes in a much wider context, in which "Theory" is narrowly circumscribed as only a special sub-section of thought ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Sun Jul 18 15:32:22 PDT 2010

238 [lbo-talk] Where Are We Going? What Are We Doing? -- rank: 385

I think someone forwarded this piece to the list. SA maybe? At any rate, I think it was because of that forward that I joined their discussion list on yahoo groups -- just for hellovit. meanwhile, i would like your paper. i probably have a copy but, alas, that is one set ...

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Author:	shag carpet bomb
Date:	Thu May 28 14:02:47 PDT 2009

239 [lbo-talk] Rosa on Old Women (Was: Graeber responds to Hedges) -- rank: 243

... see shag's immensely important post this morning on the Platypus forum. Now let us imagine some living room or dingy ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Fri Feb 10 04:45:12 PST 2012

240 [lbo-talk] Re: decentralised genocides (Grant Lee) -- rank: 243

I don't know how much more of this the list can handle, but... Grant wrote: > I don't think it is a red herring. I refer you to Justin's comments on the > pogroms. Obviously, any simultaneous occurrence of both state-sponsored and > spontaneous racist killings does not mean that ...

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Author:	Thiago Oppermann
Date:	Sat Jun 7 03:25:57 PDT 2003