Chicago Political Workshop

Here is our tentative summer reading schedule. Please contact chicago.political.workshop[at]gmail.com for pdf's of  readings and more information.

United by Hate

The Uses of Anti-Semitism Chavez's in Venezuela

The Boston Review July/August 2009

by Claudio Lomnitz and Rafael Sanchez

On Janua...

This looks like an interesting book:

Hoffrogge, Ralf. Richard Müller: Der Mann hinter der Novemberrevolution. Berlin: Karl Dietz Verlag, 2008....

Der Spiegel, The BBC, and The Guardian, among many others, are reporting that a Michael Tsokos, head of the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences at Berlin's Charité hospital believes that Rosa Luxemburg's body has been found in the cellar of t...

I wanted also to draw your attention to the work of a blogger calling him/herself Angelus Novus from Berlin: http://communism.blogsport.de/

PE

If this blog have any readers in New York, (I have been, recently, pleasantly surprised to find we have readers in the first place,) I wanted to bring this Marxist-Humanist Initiative seminar series to your attention: Confronting Capitalism’s Economic Crisis, Meeting & 4-part Seminar.

PDE

Earlier today, Ian of the local Chicago group The Platypus Affiliated Society, commented on our intervention into the affair of Platypus, Ultra-Platypus, and Principia Dialectica.

I am posting my response as a separate blog entry to give Ian's comment and my response more prominence,

Juan Dahlmann of L'INTERNAtionale, in response to Paul Krugman's recent column about the right-wing's attack on fiscal spending, an attack which conjures the specter of 1970-80s era inflation, posted an article by Robert Kurz on inflation and deflation, that he translated. Thank you Juan.

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Wesleyan University Professor and musician Anthony Braxton discusses in this interview the effects of afro-centrism and identity politics on the reception of his more broadly synthetic visions of Jazz and modern music.

Thanks Andrew!

I hope it works now.

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Foreign Policy has an interesting piece of journalism on the Obama Administration and the Congress' approach to settlements in Israel and the Israeli Administration's reaction. Find it here.

PDE