Ep. 23: The one about the 'rona, and democracy & the Left

Sh!t Platypus Says, special quarantine edition, comes in three parts: (1) Pamela talks to Platypus members about the left’s response to the Corona Virus. She talks to Laurie Rojas, Chris Cutrone & Stefan Hain to figure out just what, David Harvey, Naomi Klein, the Socialist Workers Party, U.S., Spiked online, and Žižek are saying in these times of Corona. (2) A record 3.3 million people filed claims for unemployment in the US last week. We hear from Wentai, our resident financial guru, to learn about how this pandemic is impacting the world economy. (3) In the last segment, Sophia sits down with Philip Cunliffe in London for a post-panel reflection on our "After the Election" panel at the London School of Economics: https://platypus1917.org/2020/01/29/after-the-election-whats-left-lse-29-1-20/ Philip is a political scientist and Senior Lecturer the University of Kent, he is also the founder of the Full Brexit: https://www.thefullbrexit.com/. They discuss the failure of “fully automated luxury communism” and the relationship between the Left and democracy. The Platypus Convention 2020 will be hosted online, next week on Thursday 04/02 to Sat. 04/04. The panels are: (Th:) Politics of Environmentalism as Utopia, (Fr:) The American Revolution and the Left, (Sat:) Bonapartism: How is the State Revolutionary? , (Sat:)Socialism in the 21st Century? Speakers include Christian Parenti, August Nimtz, Alex Gourevitch, Helena Rosenblatt, John Beacham, Chris Cutrone and yours truly. Viewers will be able to ask questions on the online platform. Links to each panel on the FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/199797064708367/ Hosted by Sophia and Pamela Edited with the help of Michael W. e-mail: [email protected]