The Toronto Platypi will be meeting at EJ Pratt Library, this Thursday, March 4, at 4pm, to discuss this week’s readings. Our topic this week is contemporary activism and protest culture.
The readings are available here, under “Week Three.”
Pratt Library is located on the Victoria College campus of the University of Toronto. Our meeting space is the reading room on the second floor of the library. Anyone requiring directions should check here, or can contact Cam Hardy at 416-924-4991.
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Socialist Project have uploaded the video of our “Is Marx Back?” event, featuring Ian Morrison of the Platypus Affiliated Society, and Leo Panitch. The video is available here.
Thanks to Leo, Ian, and all who attended.
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Friday, February 19th, 2009
7pm
Hart House, South Dining Room
7 Hart House Crescent,
University of Toronto
The economic crisis, as many commentators and critics are quick to point out, has rekindled interest in—and anxieties over—Marxism. Although many on the Left hope this renewed curiosity marks the beginning of a radical turn, similar revivals of anti-capitalist politics in the 1930s, 1960s, and 1990s failed to achieve the revolutionary transformations they sought.
Has Marxism returned as a significant political force? How might this translate into the possibility for a revitalized Left? Will the resurgence of Marxist theory provide opportunities for social change—or merely the opportunity to fail again?
Join us February 19 for a provocative and thoroughgoing discussion of these and other questions.
This event is free and open to the public.
Dr. Leo Panitch is Canada Research Chair in Comparative Political Economy and Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science at York University in Toronto, and coeditor of the annual Socialist Register.
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Saturday, January 30, 2010
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1:00pm – 3:00pm
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Pratt Library
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71 Queens Park Crescent East
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Toronto, ON
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The Toronto Platypus Affiliated Society will hold its first reading group meeting Saturday, January 30th, at 1:00PM at EJ Pratt Library, on the University of Toronto Victoria College campus.
This first meeting will be an introduction to Platypus as a project, a chance for new members to meet one another, and a discussion of “The Decline of the Left in the 20th Century,” the first of our readings. This article is available here: http://platypus1917.org/2009/11/18/the-decline-of-the-left-in-the-20th-century-introduction/
Please note that this discussion consists of an introduction and statements on four significant moments for the left in the 20th century: 1917, 1933, 1968, and 2001.
A complete list of our schedule is online here: http://toronto.platypus1917.org/?page_id=16
Pratt Library is located on the University of Toronto campus, and is about a ten minute walk from Yonge station, five minutes from Bay, or two minutes from Museum. Feel free to call Cam Hardy at 416-924-4991 if you have any questions, or need more detailed directions.
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Welcome to the website of the Platypus Affiliated Society in Toronto. As we are still in the process of organizing a reading group, there is not much content to post at the moment. In the near future, this site will contain reading group schedules and materials, commentary, and links of interest to members and potential members.
In the meantime, the “Platypus on the Present” section of the website contains a number of informative and challenging articles.
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