Platypus Boston

Join Platypus Boston for our online summer reading group: pre-Marxian socialism. Every Saturday from June 7th to July 19th from 10am-12pm EST. Reading list & access to readings can be found at the link in our bio. DM for Zoom link.

Join Platypus Boston on Saturday July 5th at 10am-12pm EST for the fifth meeting of our summer reading group: pre-Marxian socialism. This week's readings focus on Ricardian socialism and Chartism. Readings in bio. PM for Zoom link.

Join Platypus Boston on Saturday, June 21st from 10am-12pm EST for the third meeting of our summer reading group. This week, we will be reading selections from Charles Fourier. Link in our bio for reading. DM for Zoom link.

Join Platypus Boston on Saturday, June 14th from 10am-12pm EST for the second meeting of our summer reading group. This week, we will be reading Henri Saint-Simon's "Social Organization, the Science of Man, and Other Writings." Link in our bio for reading. DM for Zoom link.

The final meeting of our weekly reading group meets next Monday, May 12 at 7:00 in Stokes South 394, where we will discuss the relationship of theory and practice as it appeared to Adorno after 1968. facebook.com/share/1ZMA8y7P…

Our weekly reading group meets next Monday, May 5 at 7:00 in Stokes South 394, where we will delve into Adorno's reflections on Marxism in the 1940s. facebook.com/share/19qvYqxR…

Stop by our final coffee break of the semester this Thursday, May 1, 2:00 - 3:00 in the “The Rat,” where we will discuss "Freedom beyond democracy: Lenin’s legacy and Adorno’s anguish" by M. Sanchez in the Platypus Review #166. facebook.com/share/168TiyDX… platypus1917.org/2024/05/01/fre…

Our weekly reading group meets next Monday, April 28, at 7:00 in Stokes South 394, when we will discuss Walter Benjamin and the Marxian concept of history from 1940. facebook.com/share/1JEXhYdd…

Stop by our weekly coffee break this Thursday, April 24, 2:00 - 3:00 in the Lyons Dining Area (“The Rat”), where we will discuss “Towards the abyss: An interview with Volodymyr Ishchenko” by D. L. Jacobs in the Platypus Review 169. platypus1917.org/2024/09/01/tow…

Join us for our 4th film screening of the year on Wed., 4/22 at 7:00 in Stokes S363, where we will screen Medium Cool (1969), an experiential film that revolves around the New Left activities surrounding the 1968 DNC in Chicago. Pizza and soda provided. facebook.com/share/1645eJ8K…

There will be NO COFFEE BREAK THIS WEEK for Easter break.

Our weekly reading group (syllabus attached) meets next Monday, April 21, at 7:00 in Stokes South 394, where we will discuss the Frankfurt School's interwar critique of "state capitalism" and the "authoritarian state." facebook.com/share/1Y6EfgC6…

Our weekly reading group meets next Monday, April 14, at 7:00 in Stokes South 394, where we will discuss Trotskyism through a reading of Trotsky's "Transitional Program" (1938). facebook.com/share/12Jjj13A…

Stop by our weekly coffee break this Thurs., 4/10, 2:00-3:00 in “The Rat," where we will discuss “‘Left-wing’ communism and the dictatorship of the proletariat: Lenin’s critique” by Jason Adams in the Platypus Review #169. facebook.com/share/1Y3Uh6Vr… platypus1917.org/2024/09/01/lef…

The annual Platypus international convention takes place in Chicago this weekend, Thurs. 4/3 - Sat. 4/5. Check out this link for a schedule of events, which should be live-streamed. platypus.events

Our weekly reading group meets next Monday, April 7, at 7:00 in Stokes South 394, where we will discuss Trotsky's Lessons of October evaluating the 1917 Russian Revolution from 1924. facebook.com/share/1Hkk21oR…

Stop by our weekly coffee break this Thursday, April 3, 2:00 - 3:00 in the Lyons Dining Area (“The Rat”), where we will discuss "Christian Socialism and the Present Left," by Spencer Jones in the Platypus Review #168. facebook.com/share/155daBio… platypus1917.org/2024/07/01/chr…

Our weekly reading group meets next Monday, March 31, at 7:00 in Stokes South 394, where we will discuss the dialectic of reification as it relates to the proletariat. facebook.com/share/14ur3VCC…

Stop by our weekly coffee break this Thursday, March 27, 2:00 - 3:00 in the Lyons Dining Area (“The Rat”), where we will discuss "Have we unlearned how to learn? 1968 and today" by Erin Hagood in the Platypus Review #168. facebook.com/share/1KWcUFe2… platypus1917.org/2024/07/01/hav…

Our weekly reading group (syllabus attached) meets next Monday, March 24, at 7:00 in Stokes South 394, where we will discuss Lenin on the retreat of international socialist revolution in the years following WWI. facebook.com/share/18bVJFia…