We take our namesake from the platypus, which suffered at its moment of zoological discovery from its unclassifiability according to prevailing science. Hence, Platypus makes the proclamation, for our time: “The Left is dead! - Long live the Left!” - We say this so that the future possibility of the Left might live. At certain times, the most necessary contribution one can make is to declare that the Left is dead. ![]() ![]() The Left is in such a grave state of decomposition that it has become exceedingly difficult to draft coherently programmatic social-political demands. Platypus contends the Left suffers, as a result of the accumulated wreckage of intervening defeats and failures, from a very partial and distorted memory of its own history and that at crucial moments the best work on the Left is its own critique, motivated by the attempt to escape this history and its outcomes. Platypus is a project for the self-criticism, self-education, and, ultimately, the practical reconstitution of a Marxian Left. ![]() What’s the idea behind the Platypus project?Īt present the Marxist Left stands in ruins.
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