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11/21/2023

What is the relevance of Marxism today? Is there a necessity to recover or return to Marxism and what would it mean to go beyond it? What is the point of leadership by Marxist intellectuals? Is that necessary?

Join us for our upcoming panel "What is Marxism For?" this coming Tuesday, Nov. 28th at 6:00PM.

Location: 726 Broadway, 6th Floor, Conference Room B.

11/15/2023

Join us this Saturday for a Screening of Danton (1983) at the Kimmel Center, Room 905. Screening will begin at 3:00PM.

See you there!

11/15/2023

Join us this Thursday 11/16 for Week 05 of our Primary Marxist Reading Group.

This week we will be covering the following:
• Marx, Inaugural address to the First International (1864), pp. 512–519
• Marx, selections from The Civil War in France (1871, including Engels's 1891 Introduction), pp. 618–652
• Marx, Critique of the Gotha Programme, pp. 525–541
• Marx, Programme of the Parti Ouvrier (1880)

Link to the Syllabus in bio.

See you there!

10/31/2023

Join us this Thursday for Week 03 of our syllabus: Socialism.

This week we will be covering the following:

• Marx, selections from Economic and philosophic manuscripts (1844), pp. 70–101
• Marx and Friedrich Engels, selections from the Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848), pp. 469–500
• Marx, The coming upheaval (from The Poverty of Philosophy, 1847), pp. 218–19

Link to syllabus in bio.

See you there!

10/24/2023

Join us this Thursday for Week 02 of What is the Left? Utopia and Critique!

We will be covering the following readings:

• Max Horkheimer, selections from Dämmerung (1926–31)
• Adorno, “Imaginative Excesses” (1944–47)
• Leszek Kolakowski, “The concept of the Left” (1958)
• Herbert Marcuse, "Note on dialectic" (1960)
• Marx, To make the world philosophical (from Marx's dissertation, 1839–41), pp. 9–11
• Marx, For the ruthless criticism of everything existing (letter to Arnold Ruge, September 1843), pp. 12–15

Links to all the readings, and supplemental readings, can be found in the link in the bio.

10/16/2023

Join us this Thursday for Week 1 of our Primary Marxist Syllabus, Capital in History!

We will be covering the following:

• Chris Cutrone, "Capital in history" (2008)
• Cutrone, "The Marxist hypothesis" (2010)
• Cutrone, “Class consciousness (from a Marxist perspective) today” (2012)
• Max Horkheimer, "The little man and the philosophy of freedom" (1926–31)
• epigraphs on modern history and freedom by Louis Menand (on Marx and Engels), Karl Marx, on "becoming" (from the Grundrisse, 1857–58), and Peter Preuss (on history)

Link to the Syllabus, and the supplementary readings, in the bio.

10/11/2023

Join us this Thursday for Week K of our Reading Group: Hegel - Freedom in History

We will be covering:
• G.W.F. Hegel, Introduction to the Philosophy of History (1831)

Link to Syllabus in bio!

10/04/2023

Join us tomorrow for week J of our Reading Group!

• Immanuel Kant, "Idea for a universal history from a cosmopolitan point of view" and "What is Enlightenment?" (1784)

• Benjamin Constant, "The liberty of the ancients compared with that of the moderns" (1819)

09/25/2023

What is the Third Estate? Everything.
What has it been until now in the political order? Nothing.
What does it want to be? Something.

Join us this Thursday for Week I of our syllabus:
• Abbé Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, What is the Third Estate? (1789)
• Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees (1732)

Link to Syllabus in bio!

08/30/2023

Join us this Tuesday, September 09, to discuss Jean-Jacques Rousseau's "Discourse on the Origin of Inequality" and "On the Social Contract."

We will be covering Week F of our syllabus, link found in bio.

06/07/2023

The Platypus Affiliated Society of New York invites you to join us in our upcoming Summer Reading Group: Marxism and Politics! We will be meeting Wednesdays, 6:00PM, at 726 Broadway, on the 6th Floor (NYU Liberal Studies Lounge). A link to syllabus can be found in bio.

Our first session will be held Wednesday, June 14th.

Hope to see you there!

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