Is Marxism Still Relevant? Platypus
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Platypus asked 'Is Marxism Still Relevant?' on 3 Feb 16 and recorded the discussion and have shared it here
http://platypus1917.org/2016/02/06/is-marxism-still-relevant-a-platypus-teach-in/
West London had a visit from a 4-member delegation from them at our meeting last night, Who exactly are they? Ex-trots or what? I read through issue 90 of "The Platypus Review" that they handed out. Difficult to read because of the lay-out — a broadsheet version of the ICC's "World Revolution". One of the writers was supporting the US Green Party.Anyway it made for an interesting discussion. They are thinking of organising one of their panels on "What is Socialism?" We said we be interested in having one of our members on it. Not sure we will get an invitation after we told them we didn't consider ourselves part of "the Left".
My assumption was Platypus Review was an academic journal in size so it seems strange that is was a broadsheet, have they perhaps printed out journal-sized pages with small (or reduced) font size on larger pages?Not quite sure where they are coming from, but their website (the url references 1917) should elaborate and there are various articles including by them in Weekly Worker from a few years ago. They seem keen to host debates and the SPGB reputation is to participate in debates so its good that face to face contact has been made.http://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/963/dissecting-the-platypus/http://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/authors/chris-cutrone/Perhaps they could host a debate in London on the Russian Revolution this year and invite us to participate.
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