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1 [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

2 [lbo-talk] Why Egypt's Liberal Intellectuals Still Support the Army -- rank: 243

... 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:	Angelus Novus
Date:	Sun Jan 12 06:28:19 PST 2014

3 [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

4 [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

5 [lbo-talk] Lou Proyect responds... -- rank: 243

<> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 6:09 AM, shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com> <> wrote: <> <>> Basically, they're afraid that it won't be focused and coordinated; <>> less <>> impact. <> <> You are more generous than I am. I'd say the open-endedness and <> out-of-controlness itself produces ...

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Author:	shag carpet bomb
Date:	Thu Feb 9 07:01:06 PST 2012

6 [lbo-talk] Anticapitalism and Occupation -- rank: 243

... and Occupation At a recent panel discussion hosted by the Platypus Society at Harvard University, the moderator asked the participants whether ...

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Author:	SA
Date:	Mon Dec 19 08:22:15 PST 2011

7 [lbo-talk] Doug Henwood declines offer to speak at Platypus panel -- rank: 812

... cian" and "negative potential" both. The only problem with marginalizing Platypus by refusing to play ball with them, is that once ...

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Author:	John Gulick
Date:	Mon Nov 14 13:12:52 PST 2011

8 [lbo-talk] Doug Henwood declines offer to speak at Platypus panel -- rank: 876

... comment on Doug's blog: "There is one member of Platypus who does hit and runs on a number of blogs ... being either useful, or enlightening." Actually, this describes some of Platypus's would-be co-thinkers in Germany perfectly. The Bahamas ...

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Author:	Angelus Novus
Date:	Mon Nov 14 10:30:15 PST 2011

9 [lbo-talk] Doug Henwood declines offer to speak at Platypus panel -- rank: 812

... ago, the guy sitting across from me turned into a platypus. I can't shake that image from my mind.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 14 10:30:03 PST 2011

10 [lbo-talk] Doug Henwood declines offer to speak at Platypus panel -- rank: 812

... First the blow to the evolutionary tree. Now this. Oh Platypus, when will you stop sowing confusion and causing the very ...

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Author:	123hop at comcast.net
Date:	Mon Nov 14 10:14:06 PST 2011

11 [lbo-talk] Doug Henwood declines offer to speak at Platypus panel -- rank: 812

First the blow to the evolutionary tree. Now this. Oh Platypus, when will you stop sowing confusion and causing the very ...

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Author:	// ravi
Date:	Mon Nov 14 09:53:52 PST 2011

12 [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

13 [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

14 [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

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

The Platypus Affiliated Society is hosting a series of panel discussions on ...

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Author:	Edward Remus
Date:	Sun Nov 13 22:48:48 PST 2011