Chris Cutrone with Platypus pedagogues on Hegel, Marx, Bonapartism and socialism

A discussion among Platypus pedagogues on readings from the Platypus Affiliated Society’s academic year syllabus of primary Marxist readings.

Readings addressed:
Hegel, Introduction to the Philosophy of History
Chris Cutrone, “Capital in history” (2008), “The Marxist hypothesis” (2010), “Class consciousness (from a Marxist perspective) today” (2012) and “Badiou’s ‘communism’: a gerontic disorder” (2011)
Leszek Kolakowski, “The concept of the Left”
Max Horkheimer, selections from Dämmerung (trans. Dawn and Decline) 1926-31
Theodor Adorno, “Imaginative excesses” (orphaned from Minimal Moralia, published in “Messages in a bottle”)
Karl Marx, “To make the world philosophical” (excerpt from dissertation); Letter to Arnold Ruge September 1843; selections from 1844 Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts and Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848)
Marx, “The coming upheaval” from The Poverty of Philosophy (1847)
Marx, Address to the Central Committee of the Communist League (1850); selections from The Class Struggles in France (1851) and The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1852); and Letter to Joseph Weydemeyer March 5, 1852

Platypus academic year primary Marxist readings syllabus:

https://platypus1917.org/2025/07/09/platypus-primary-marxist-reading-group-summer-and-fall-2025-winter-2026/

Chris Cutrone

Chris Cutrone is a college educator, writer, and media artist, committed to critical thinking and artistic practice and the politics of social emancipation. ( . . . )

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Chris Cutrone with Doug Lain on social relations and ideology, and ICE in Chicago and Gaza peace

Chris Cutrone discusses with Doug Lain his article “Social relations and ideology: an anti-critique” published in The Platypus Review issue 180 (October 2025), written in response to Benjamin Studebaker’s article “Beyond ideology critique” in Platypus Review 179 (September 2025). In the second half Parrot Room, Cutrone and Lain discuss Trump’s Gaza peace plan and the ICE raids and National Guard deployments to Chicago and Portland, Oregon.

Ed Remus with Chris Cutrone on the Charlie Kirk assassination

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Ed Remus discusses his article published in Compact Magazine, “Charlie Kirk and the New Civil War” (September 23, 2025).

https://www.compactmag.com/article/charlie-kirk-and-the-new-civil-war

In the second half Parrot Room, Chris Cutrone discusses with Ed Remus the necessity of socialist independence from capitalist politics, with reference to Chris Cutrone’s tweet, “They are killing each other.”

September 29, 2025 | Posted in: Presentations | Comments Closed

Chris Cutrone with Doug Lain on socialist strategy and criticism, theory, practice in socialist approaches to art

Chris Cutrone continues his discussion with Doug Lain on the Campaign for a socialist party and his call for “Socialist unity!” published in Sublation. In the second half, they discuss the difference and relation between theory, practice and criticism in socialist approaches to art.

https://www.sublationmag.com/post/socialist-unity