Is Marx back?

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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 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. [4]

The Platypus Affiliated Society [5]organizes reading groups, public fora, research, and journalism focused on problems and tasks inherited from the "Old" (1920s-30s), "New" (1960s-70s) and post-political (1980s-90s) Left, for the possibilities of emancipatory politics today. The Society has chapters in Chicago, New York, Boston, and a newly formed chapter in Toronto.
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