[lbo-talk] Mitchel's interview with two Platypus organizers

Max Sawicky sawicky at verizon.net
Tue Apr 6 10:54:57 PDT 2010


Old and out of touch that I am, I'd never heard of Platypus until I saw them at Left Forum last month. Can someone provide a 2 sentence description of where they came from & who they are?

On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara <bhaskar.sunkara at gmail.com> wrote:
> Cryptic, maybe, but the links were described.  I did, however, make
> a follow-up post for you with quoted text from the articles on Klein, but I
> think it was over 25k and got hung up in moderation.  If you're curious
> about the Platypus the best place to check would be the Platypus Review,
> issue 17 in particular.  It outlines their whole "theory of regression"
> shtick.  I'm in contact with many of their members and have a contribution
> in a forthcoming issue (a coverage of Fitch's excellent "Solidarity for
> Sale"), but I can hardly condense their body of thought into a
> paragraph-long summation.  Needless to say, whatever limitations they do
> have, I think they are among the more interesting currents to pop out of
> whatever constitutes the American left in the last few years and are
> motivated, young and growing.  A rare combination in this day and age.
>
> On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
>
>> I've enjoyed many of Bhaskar's posts, and he has interesting things to
>> say quie often. But after the truble I've gone through and the wasted
>> time in trying to findout what this thread was about, since all he's
>> offered are naked URL's and cryptic comments, I have decided life is too
>> short to bother with his posts. I will miss his presence on the list,
>> but I have placed him in my kill file so he can't sdend me on any more
>> wild goosechases before haviang the slightest idea of what it is I'm
>> chasing.
>>
>> Carrol
>>
>>
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