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Platypus Affiliated Society at Georgetown University @platypusgeorgetown.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Thursday Oct 15, 6:30 PM ICC foyer @ Georgetown University - Platypus Affiliated Society public weekly coffee break Bring your questions about the Left, Marxism, and socialism. All topics welcome! Open discussion. Paul Le Blanc 2011, "Lenin's Marxism"? platypus1917.org/2011/05/05/l...

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Platypus Affiliated Society at Georgetown University @platypusgeorgetown.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

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Platypus Affiliated Society at Georgetown University @platypusgeorgetown.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

THURSDAY - October 15: Join the Platypus Affiliated Society at the University of Vienna, Austria for a film screening about the New Left 1976 occupation of the Vienna Arena. Horsaal 12, Oskar Morgenstern Platz 1, 6:30 PM. Discussion welcome! More info: www.instagram.com/platypuswien/

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Platypus Affiliated Society at Georgetown University @platypusgeorgetown.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"Marxism gave a meaning to modernity. It said that, wittingly or not, the individual performs a role in a drama that has a shape and a goal, a trajectory, and that modernity will turn out to be just one act in that drama. Marx and Engels were the philosophes of a second Enlightenment." -Louis Menand

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Platypus Affiliated Society at Georgetown University @platypusgeorgetown.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Capital in history Chris Cutrone, Capital in history, The Marxist hypothesis, Class consciousness today Horkheimer: The little man and the philosophy of history Epigraphs by Karl Marx, etc What is the Left? What is Marxism? Platypus Affiliated Society Marxist reading group, Georgetown University

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Platypus Affiliated Society at Georgetown University @platypusgeorgetown.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

We are restarting our weekly Platypus Marxist reading group, today Sun. 10/11 2 PM online at Georgetown University. Bring your questions! What is the "Marxist hypothesis" on the meaning of human history? Why do we read Marx today? What did Marxism seek to clarify and change?

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Platypus Affiliated Society at Georgetown University @platypusgeorgetown.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Thursday Oct 8, 6:30 PM ICC foyer high tables @ Georgetown University - Platypus Affiliated Society public + weekly coffee break. Join us with your questions about the Left, Marxism, and socialism. All topics are welcome! Open discussion. Why not Trump? platypus1917.org/2016/09/06/w...

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Platypus Affiliated Society at Georgetown University @platypusgeorgetown.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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 article (platypus1917.org/2013/12/15/1...). Feel free to attend even if you haven't read it. October 7, 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 · 04/10/2026

"But as we contemplate history as this slaughter-bench, upon which happiness, wisdom, and virtues were sacrificed, the question necessarily comes: What was the ultimate goal? World history is the progress in consciousness of freedom—a progress that we must come to know in its necessity." -GWF Hegel

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Platypus Affiliated Society at Georgetown University @platypusgeorgetown.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hegel: Freedom in history GWF Hegel, The Philosophy of History (introduction to the Philosophy of History) What is the Left? What is Marxism? Platypus Affiliated Society Marxist reading group, Georgetown University

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Platypus Affiliated Society at Georgetown University @platypusgeorgetown.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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 Hegel this week. Why did humanity need to be free? How did history and past necessity become a resource for the possible future?

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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

What is the Left? What is Marxism? Platypus Affiliated Society, open + public Marxist reading group at Georgetown University

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

"I am a scientist. I believed knowledge could be the honor of mankind. Rousseau corrected me. I learned to honor man, and I would consider myself less worthy than a worker if I did not believe that it could contribute to what really matters: the restoration of the rights of mankind." - Kant

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

Kant and Constant: bourgeois society Kant: Idea for a universal history from a cosmopolitan point of view What is Enlightenment Constant: The liberty of the ancients compared with that of the moderns What is the Left? What is Marxism? Platypus Affiliated Society, Marxist reading group, Georgetown

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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

Adam Smith: On the wealth of nations; The Wealth of Nations Book 4: Of Systems of Political Economy - Of Colonies Book 5: Of the Revenue of the Sovereign or Commonwealth Come ask What is the Left? What is Marxism? at the Platypus Affiliated Society, Marxist reading group at Georgetown University

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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 · 06/09/2026

To be radical is to go to the root of the matter. For man, however, the root is man himself. - Karl Marx, Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right Whoever dares to establish a people's institutions must feel himself capable of changing, as it were, human nature... - Rousseau, On the Social Contract

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

Radical bourgeois philosophy: Rousseau crossroads of society Horkheimer, The little man and the philosophy of freedom Epigraphs on history and freedom (Marx, on Nietzsche) Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality On the Social Contract What is the Left? What is Marxism? Platypus reading group

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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

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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 · 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 · 31/08/2026

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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 · 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 · 27/08/2026

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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 · 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 · 21/08/2026

“Marx comprehended, in principle, man as the subject of history, and Lenin developed especially this aspect of Marxism.” "The German revolutionary movement before Hitler was based on the economic and social theory of Karl Marx." - Wilhelm Reich, "Ideology as material power" (1933/1946)

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

Frankfurt School precursors Wilhelm Reich, Ideology as material power Siegfried Kracauer, The mass ornament Photography Being and becoming (freedom in transformation)/immanent dialectical critique chart What is the Left? What is Marxism? Platypus Affiliated Society reading group platypus1917.org

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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

Find the editorial statement and issues of the Platypus Review, an open journal on the Left, at platypus1917.org/platypus-rev.... Submissions are welcome. From the editorial statement: "What exists today is built upon the desiccated remains of what was once possible."

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The Platypus Affiliated Society – The Platypus Review

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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

As a social party we receive the Negro and all other races upon absolutely equal terms. We are the party of the whole working class; if we [by appeal to race prejudice] should be driven from the straight road, we ought to perish there for we shall no longer be a Socialist party. — Eugene Debs (1903)

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