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1 [lbo-talk] Platypus: what we are, what we do, and why -- rank: 1000

... wanted to say something about the editorial policy of the Platypus Review (PR). We are indeed an open-submission publication that ... who mostly come from outside, far beyond the circles of Platypus membership) in the direction of critical reflection. We have an ...

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Author:	Christopher Cutrone
Date:	Sat Apr 10 10:49:49 PDT 2010

2 [lbo-talk] Q: What is a Platypus? -- rank: 1000

... louisproyect.wordpress.com/2010/04/25/q-what-is-a-platypus-a-an-american-eustonite/ --------------------------- <clip> And speaking of the 1960s left, the Platypus people take a dim view of the SDS protests that ...

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Author:	mep
Date:	Mon Apr 26 12:38:05 PDT 2010

3 [lbo-talk] Mitchel's interview with two Platypus organizers -- rank: 978

... of the Left http://platypus1917.org/about/what-is-a-platypus/ A story is told about Karl Marx s collaborator and ... human reason in it, became indignant when reading about a platypus, which he supposed to be a fraud perpetrated by English taxidermists. For Engels, the platypus made no sense in natural history. Later, Engels saw a living platypus at a British zoo and was chagrined. Like Marx a ...

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Author:	Bhaskar Sunkara
Date:	Sun Apr 4 15:05:23 PDT 2010

4 [lbo-talk] Doug Henwood declines offer to speak at Platypus panel -- rank: 978

... can be argued against, but what's particularly bad about Platypus is the disingenuous pose of equidistance. If you recall, sometime ago the Platypus newspaper published an awful article by Joachim Bruhn.  When confronted about this, Cutrone maintained his pose that Platypus does not endorse Anti-Germanism, but rather sees both Anti ... exactly, most likely the comments section at Principia Dialectica), that Platypus does *indeed* feel affinity for Anti-Germans. So that's ... indirectly offering a platform to the positions that one suspects Platypus *really* sympathizes with. Incidentally, after I raised a stink about ...

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Author:	Angelus Novus
Date:	Mon Nov 14 09:28:27 PST 2011

5 [lbo-talk] Platypus: what we are, what we do, and why -- rank: 978

... a lot of holier than thou rattling around in the Platypus head. I did a few reads of what Platypus has up. I spent some time on an essay called ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Fri Apr 9 16:04:54 PDT 2010

6 [lbo-talk] Platypus: what we are, what we do, and why -- rank: 954

At 10:13 AM 4/9/2010, Doug Henwood wrote: >On Apr 9, 2010, at 10:01 AM, JAMES Heartfield wrote: > >>Chris C.: >> >>"More than 50 years of "Third World" so-called "revolutionary" >>movements >>have failed to produce any emancipatory results whatsoever" >> >>Is that something of an overstatement? Having visited both ...

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Author:	shag carpet bomb
Date:	Sat Apr 10 06:22:50 PDT 2010

7 [lbo-talk] Platypus: what we are, what we do, and why -- rank: 954

P.S. On Marx on the American Civil War: I think that, while I remain sympathetic to the Union side in the American Civil War, history shows that crushing slavery in the American South, the degree to which it did not lead simply to the strengthening of the American workers' movement ...

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Author:	Christopher Cutrone
Date:	Thu Apr 8 06:52:53 PDT 2010

8 [lbo-talk] Platypus: what we are, what we do, and why -- rank: 954

A strategic priority must be made of building a Left in the core countries of global capital, i.e., in the U.S., Europe, Japan, et al. More than 50 years of "Third World" so-called "revolutionary" movements have failed to produce any emancipatory results whatsoever. What this means, simply, is ...

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Author:	Christopher Cutrone
Date:	Fri Apr 9 06:38:49 PDT 2010

9 [lbo-talk] Platypus: what we are, what we do, and why -- rank: 929

I've been told that Platypus people support the U.S. war in Afghanistan. Is that ... thread on the recent interview on "Steal This >Radio" with Platypus organizers Chris Mansour and Ian Morrison. > >A "two-sentence" description ...

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Author:	Joanne Landy
Date:	Tue Apr 6 20:49:35 PDT 2010

10 [lbo-talk] Platypus: what we are, what we do, and why -- rank: 929

It is telling, Chris, that in enumerating the protagonists of this "Islamist terrorist conspiracy" you reproduce a laundry-list of alliances that is entirely a figment of the imperialist imaginary. Hamas in Gaza as members of the same 'Islamist Terrorist Conspiracy' as the Afghan Taliban? Give it a rest [1]. The ...

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Author:	Adaner Usmani
Date:	Thu Apr 8 22:57:23 PDT 2010

11 [lbo-talk] Platypus: what we are, what we do, and why -- rank: 904

I'll admit to having been slightly interested in this project a few weeks ago. One of the editors showed up at a panel I was on at the Cultural Studies Association conference in Berkley. The panel was on Marxism and Cultural Studies and the editor (I forget his name) handed ...

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Author:	Sean Andrews
Date:	Fri Apr 9 08:24:18 PDT 2010

12 [lbo-talk] Mitchel's interview with two Platypus organizers -- rank: 904

... cute little duck nose, but vicious poison claws! We... Are... PLATYPUS!!!!" ----- Original Message ---- From: Bhaskar Sunkara <bhaskar.sunkara at gmail.com ... AM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Mitchel's interview with two Platypus organizers Cryptic, maybe, but the links were described.  I did ... hung up in moderation.  If you're curious about the Platypus the best place to check would be the Platypus Review, issue 17 in particular.  It outlines their whole "theory ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sun Apr 4 14:55:52 PDT 2010

13 [lbo-talk] Platypus: what we are, what we do, and why -- rank: 904

(I'm glad to see that Platypus instigates such debate!) I think we make a fundamental mistake ...

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Author:	Christopher Cutrone
Date:	Thu Apr 8 06:36:48 PDT 2010

14 [lbo-talk] Platypus: what we are, what we do, and why -- rank: 904

... thread on the recent interview on "Steal This Radio" with Platypus organizers Chris Mansour and Ian Morrison. A "two-sentence" description ... the Left, and an open-submission forum-in-print, The Platypus Review, a free monthly broadsheet publication funded and distributed mainly ...

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Author:	Christopher Cutrone
Date:	Tue Apr 6 14:22:22 PDT 2010

15 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Re: Platypus: what we are, what we do, and why -- rank: 904

I don't know of anyone in Platypus who supports the U.S. in any of its wars ... this is the wrong question to ask of us. Because Platypus isn't about taking positions but about asking questions: What ... the Iraq war quite seriously.) There was some talk of Platypus being "ultra-subsumptionist" or "Hegelian." This is not only a ...

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Author:	Christopher Cutrone
Date:	Wed Apr 7 23:29:43 PDT 2010