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Platypus Affiliated Society at Georgetown University @platypusgeorgetown.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Thursday Oct 1, 6:30 PM ICC foyer high tables @ Georgetown University - Platypus public + weekly coffee break. Join us with your questions about the Left, Marxism, and socialism. All topics are welcome! Open discussion. What's democracy for the Left? platypus1917.org/2011/12/01/e...

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Platypus Affiliated Society at Georgetown University @platypusgeorgetown.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Come chat at the Platypus GWU Coffee Break! Look for a stack of the Platypus Review on the table. Topic: We'll be discussing this panel (platypus1917.org/2017/02/05/i...). Feel free to attend even if you haven't read the transcript. September 30, 6:00-8:00 pm, USC Atrium at GWU (21st St. Entrance)

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Platypus Affiliated Society at Georgetown University @platypusgeorgetown.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Join our weekly Marxist reading group with Platypus, today Sun. 9/27 2 PM in ICC 216 at Georgetown University. Bring your questions! We'll discuss the historical meaning of bourgeois society. Why did humanity need to be free? How was this a political claim for Kant and Constant?

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Platypus Affiliated Society at Georgetown University @platypusgeorgetown.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Come chat at the Platypus GWU Coffee Break! Look for a stack of the Platypus Review on the table. Topic: We'll be discussing this panel (www.youtube.com/watch?v=edRM...). Feel free to attend even if you haven't watched the panel. September 23, 6:00-8:00 pm, USC Atrium at GWU (21st St. Entrance)

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Platypus Affiliated Society at Georgetown University @platypusgeorgetown.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Join our weekly Marxist reading group with Platypus, today Sunday 9/20 2 PM in ICC 216 at Georgetown University. We'll discuss Adam Smith and the meaning of labor and the wealth of nations through the discovery of commerce and commonwealth across the Americas, India, and Europe.

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Platypus Affiliated Society at Georgetown University @platypusgeorgetown.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Thursday Sept 17, 6:30 PM ICC foyer high tables @ Georgetown University - Platypus public +weekly coffee break - join us with your questions about the Left, Marxism, and socialism. What's next for the Left? Our open discussion takes nothing for granted: all topics and thoughts are welcome!

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Platypus Affiliated Society at Georgetown University @platypusgeorgetown.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

What's happening in DC and the world more broadly? Come discuss your experiences and concerns at the Platypus GWU Coffee Break! Look for the stack of the Platypus Review on the table. September 16, 6:00-8:00 pm, USC Atrium at George Washington University (21st St. Entrance, across CVS)

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Platypus Affiliated Society at Georgetown University @platypusgeorgetown.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Thursday Sept 10, 6:30 PM ICC foyer, Georgetown University - Platypus coffee break: what might we need to learn from the Left? What is Platypus for? All thoughts + topics welcome at our coffee break, for an informal reflection on the present, news, history "against the grain."

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Platypus Affiliated Society at Georgetown University @platypusgeorgetown.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

What's happening in DC and the world more broadly? Come discuss your experiences and concerns at the Platypus GWU Coffee Break! Look for the stack of the Platypus Review on the table. September 9, 6:00-8:00 pm, USC Atrium at George Washington University (21st St. Entrance, across CVS)

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Platypus Affiliated Society at Georgetown University @platypusgeorgetown.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

SATURDAY - September 12: Join the Platypus Affiliated Society at Oregon State University at the HOTV (Corvallis) Anti-Capitalist Bookfair for a teach-in titled "Anarchism! Marxism." What are they, today? 11:30 AM, Manyworld: 1013 NW Taylor. Q&A welcome! More info: www.instagram.com/platypusosu/

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Platypus Affiliated Society at Georgetown University @platypusgeorgetown.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Join us for our first Marxist reading group of the semester, today Sunday 9/6 at 2 PM in ICC 216 at Georgetown University! We will discuss Rousseau and the "crossroads of society" as a basis for socialism in the 19th century and Marx's critique. What does history mean for mankind's freedom?

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Platypus Affiliated Society at Georgetown University @platypusgeorgetown.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

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Platypus Affiliated Society at Georgetown University @platypusgeorgetown.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

In terms of changing the course of human history, what is the "purpose" of Marxism? Is it necessary to recover or return to Marxism, and what would it mean to go beyond it? Does Marxism even matter!? Public teach-in and Q&A this Friday 9/4 at 6:00 PM in ICC 216. Details in bio!

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Platypus Affiliated Society at Georgetown University @platypusgeorgetown.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Join Platypus at George Mason University in Fairfax VA Wednesday September 2nd from 11-2 PM at the Get Connected Fair! What is the project of Platypus, in the age of the death of the Left? What is the Left? Does Marxism matter today? Info: instagram.com/platypusgmu/

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Platypus Affiliated Society at Georgetown University @platypusgeorgetown.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

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Platypus Affiliated Society at Georgetown University @platypusgeorgetown.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Thursday Sept 3, 6:30 PM ICC foyer, Georgetown University - What is the Left, what is Marxism? - and why does Platypus "host the conversation?" Where do we begin? All thoughts + topics welcome at our coffee break, for an informal reflection on politics +more "against the grain."

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Platypus Affiliated Society at Georgetown University @platypusgeorgetown.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

What's happening in DC and the world more broadly? Come discuss your experiences and concerns! Look for the stack of the Platypus Review on the table. September 2, 6:00-8:00 pm, USC Atrium at George Washington University (21st St. Entrance, across CVS)

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Platypus Affiliated Society at Georgetown University @platypusgeorgetown.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

SATURDAY/SUNDAY - September 19-20: Join the Platypus Affiliated Society at the University of Auckland for a weekend of panels and teach-ins on the Left in Oceania: Australia and New Zealand, beginning with a panel titled "Decolonisation and the Left." More info: www.instagram.com/platypus_uoa/

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Platypus Affiliated Society at Georgetown University @platypusgeorgetown.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

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Platypus Affiliated Society at Georgetown University @platypusgeorgetown.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Our activities at Georgetown University begin next week! Wondering how to get involved? Join us Saturday, August 29th at the CAB Fair in Red Square to ask, "what is a platypus?" "What is the Left?" Find our table and get a copy of the Platypus Review! www.instagram.com/platypusgeor...

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Platypus Affiliated Society at Georgetown University @platypusgeorgetown.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Everything you wanted to know about the Left and Marxism but were afraid to ask! Join the Platypus Affiliated Society at Georgetown University this fall semester for an open and ongoing conversation on the Left and the present. Sign up for updates: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Platypus Affiliated Society at Georgetown University @platypusgeorgetown.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

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Platypus Affiliated Society at Georgetown University @platypusgeorgetown.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

SATURDAY - August 29: Join the Platypus Affiliated Society at the University of Pennsylvania and the UPenn YDSA for a panel titled "Sexual Freedom and the Left: What Was Sexual Liberation?" Philly, UPenn Kelly Writers House Rm 202, 1 PM. Q&A welcome. More info: www.instagram.com/platypusphil...

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Platypus Affiliated Society at Georgetown University @platypusgeorgetown.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Video available now from the public workshop with Communist Unity (AKA @revcomorg.bsky.social) members Edith Fischer and Alice, at the 2026 Platypus Affiliated Society International Convention in Chicago, Northwestern University, from April! www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3pg...

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Revolutionary Communist Organisation Interview (4/10/2026 workshop)

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Platypus Affiliated Society at Georgetown University @platypusgeorgetown.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

THURSDAY - September 10: Join the Platypus Affiliated Society at Boston University for a panel titled "What is the Gen-Z Left?" Palestine 2024, ICE, Mamdani, George Floyd 2020, Sanders 2, Trump 2 - what now? College of Gen Studies, Rm 123, 6 PM. Q&A welcome. Info: www.instagram.com/platypusbost...

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Platypus Affiliated Society at Georgetown University @platypusgeorgetown.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

What is "ideology as a material force" for Marx? How did "authoritarian" 1920s mass mobilization of material living in capitalism clarify this "contradictory" relation? And why did it point to fascism and yet too the end of capitalism? Our last online reading group meeting, 8/23, 2-5 PM online!

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Platypus Affiliated Society at Georgetown University @platypusgeorgetown.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

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Platypus Affiliated Society at Georgetown University @platypusgeorgetown.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

SUNDAY - Aug 23: Join the Platypus Affiliated Society at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) to view the film "The Last Election" (2026) by Sublation Media. The 2024 US election, DNC, RNC, and Marx: so what? Cafe Mak, 12 PM. Discussion welcome! Info: www.instagram.com/platypuslosa...

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Platypus Affiliated Society at Georgetown University @platypusgeorgetown.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

A new episode of Shit Platypus Says, the commentary on the commentary on the Left, is here! 5 years of the Platypus Review, & the Left. What is the Left in the post-Trump, post-Millennial Left, post-DSA era? How does the Platypus Review track capitalist change? Listen: soundcloud.com/platypus-aff...

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Platypus Affiliated Society at Georgetown University @platypusgeorgetown.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Our reading group continues! Why did social emancipation raise Marx's questions of consciousness and capitalism? Why did the early New Left struggle against racism and social, not national, discrimination in the U.S. recall Marxism's project? Today, Sunday Aug 16, 2-5 PM online, sign up in bio/DM!

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Platypus Affiliated Society at Georgetown University @platypusgeorgetown.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Our reading group continues! Why did social emancipation raise Marx's questions of consciousness and capitalism? Why did a New Left engagement of "new social movements" around gender and sexuality recall Marxism's own critique of consciousness? Sunday Aug 9, 2-5 PM online, sign up in bio/DM!

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Platypus Affiliated Society at Georgetown University @platypusgeorgetown.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Our reading group continues: on "neo-Marxism." Why did the New Left try to "discover" or "develop" Marx after Marxism? What direction in history, in social change, did they seek from Marx? Do we need the New Left's concern and optimism? Sunday Aug 2, 2-4 PM online, sign up in bio or DM!

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Platypus Affiliated Society at Georgetown University @platypusgeorgetown.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

What is the Left? What is Marxism? Join our first week of a pre-semester online reading group to introduce and frame this question and our syllabus, and question why to approach this through the New Left, and the task of human history. Sunday July 27, 2-4 PM online, sign up in bio or DM!

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Platypus Affiliated Society at Georgetown University @platypusgeorgetown.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Join the Platypus Affiliated Society at Georgetown University before the semester starts for an open, online reading group approaching the questions of What is the Left? What is Marxism? through the 1960s New Left. Sign up for meeting info: see bio. platypus1917.org/2026/07/10/p...

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Platypus Affiliated Society at Georgetown University @platypusgeorgetown.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Chris Cutrone comments on freedom in America and socialism. Find his full remarks on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkY9... The Platypus Affiliated Society hosted this panel "The Crisis of the American Revolution" April 10 2026 for the 18th Platypus International Convention at Northwestern Univ.

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Platypus Affiliated Society at Georgetown University @platypusgeorgetown.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Read Platypus Review issue 188! A panel on the crisis of the American Revolution; and articles on: individuals, Marx, and Marxism; the possibility of Marxist politics today; politics for the Left; and an interview on the rise of critical sexology. Online: platypus1917.org/category/pr/...

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Platypus Affiliated Society at Georgetown University @platypusgeorgetown.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

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Platypus Affiliated Society at Georgetown University @platypusgeorgetown.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Ingar Solty @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social comments on the meaning of fascism today, for the Left. Find his full remarks on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkY9... Platypus hosted this panel "The Crisis of the American Revolution" April 10 2026 for the 18th Platypus International Convention.

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Platypus Affiliated Society at Georgetown University @platypusgeorgetown.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

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Platypus Affiliated Society at Georgetown University @platypusgeorgetown.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Edith Fischer @revcomorg.bsky.social comments on capitalism and democracy as opposed orders. Find her full remarks on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkY9... Platypus hosted this panel "The Crisis of the American Revolution" April 10 2026 for the 18th Platypus International Convention in Chicago.

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Platypus Affiliated Society at Georgetown University @platypusgeorgetown.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

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Platypus Affiliated Society at Georgetown University @platypusgeorgetown.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

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Platypus Affiliated Society at Georgetown University @platypusgeorgetown.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Join chapters of the Platypus Affiliated Society in Europe July 3-4 for a Platypus Weekend in Leipzig featuring fora including panels, film screenings, teach-ins, and book talks. How does the American Revolution relate to the Left today? Details: www.instagram.com/platypus_lei...

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Platypus Affiliated Society at Georgetown University @platypusgeorgetown.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Platypus hosted a panel, "How Does Marxism Matter in the 21st Century?", at the Platypus Affiliated Society International Convention, April 2026 at University of Chicago. Andrea Bauer John Garvey Paul North Liz Rathburn Benjamin Studebaker Can Marx be left behind? www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xXg...

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How Does Marxism Matter in the 21st Century? (4/11/26 panel)

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Platypus Affiliated Society at Georgetown University @platypusgeorgetown.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

WEDNESDAY - July 1: Join the Platypus Affiliated Society at Universität Leipzig for a film screening of "The Apprentice." What do Donald Trump and the 1980s mean for today's Left, and new politics? Ziegenledersaal, Hauptcampus. 7 PM. Discussion welcome! Info: www.instagram.com/platypus_lei...

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Platypus Affiliated Society at Georgetown University @platypusgeorgetown.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

WEDNESDAY - July 1: Join the Platypus Affiliated Society at Freie Universität (FU) Berlin for a film screening of "Lenin: The Train". How was WW1 a political crisis of Marxism? Was the Russian Revolution socialist? How? Café Galile, 8 PM. Discussion welcome! Info: www.instagram.com/platypus.ber...

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Platypus Affiliated Society at Georgetown University @platypusgeorgetown.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

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