The Platypus Affiliated Society organizes reading groups, public fora, research and journalism focused on problems and tasks inherited from the “Old” (1920s-30s), “New” (1960s-70s) and post-political (1980s-90s) Left for the possibilities of emancipatory politics today.
Fall Quarter: The reading group takes place 12PM - 2:30PM on Sundays at Harper 141.
Winter Quarter: The reading group takes place 12PM - 2:30PM on Saturdays at Harper 102.
Spring Quarter: The reading group takes place 12PM - 2:30PM on Sundays at Harper 151.
Supplementary resources
Supplementary resources
Supplementary resources
Supplementary resources
The fetish character of the commodity is not a fact of consciousness; rather it is dialectical, in the eminent sense that it produces consciousness. . . . Perfection of the commodity character in a Hegelian self-consciousness inaugurates the explosion of its phantasmagoria.
— Theodor W. Adorno, letter to Walter Benjamin, August 2, 1935
Supplementary resources
Supplementary resources
Supplementary resources
Supplementary resources
The bourgeoisie makes it its business to promote trusts, drive women and children into the factories, subject them to corruption and suffering, condemn them to extreme poverty. We do not ‘demand’ such development, we do not ‘support’ it. We fight it. But how do we fight? We explain that trusts and the employment of women in industry are progressive. We do not want a return to the handicraft system, pre-monopoly capitalism, domestic drudgery for women. Forward through the trusts, etc., and beyond them to socialism!
— Lenin, The Military Programme of the Proletarian Revolution (1916/17)
Supplementary resources
Supplementary resources
Supplementary resources
Supplementary resources
Supplementary resources
Supplementary resources
Supplementary resources
Supplementary resources