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Fall 2026
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Weeks titled according to Platypus Fall 2026 Syllabus
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AUSTIN
Location: MEZ 1.104
Time: Sunday at 2 pm
SAN ANTONIO
Location: Summer Moon Coffee (St. Mary's)
Time: Tuesdays at 6 pm
HOUSTON
Location: M.D. Anderson Library
Time: Sundays at 10 am
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Week H. Radical bourgeois philosophy III. Adam Smith: On the wealth of nations (part 2) | Sep. 13, 2026
Week H. Radical bourgeois philosophy III. Adam Smith: On the wealth of nations (part 2) | Sep. 13, 2026
• Smith, selections from The Wealth of Nations
Volume II [PDF]
Vol. 2: pp. 66-158, 282-309, 338-340
IV.7, Of Colonies
V.1. Of the Expences of the Sovereign or Commonwealth Article 2d and 3d and Part IV
Week I. Radical bourgeois philosophy IV. What is the Third Estate? | Sep. 20, 2026
Week I. Radical bourgeois philosophy IV. What is the Third Estate? | Sep. 20, 2026
• Abbé Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, What is the Third Estate? (1789) [full text]
+ Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees (1732)
Week J. Radical bourgeois philosophy V. Kant and Constant: Bourgeois society | Sep. 27, 2026
Week J. Radical bourgeois philosophy V. Kant and Constant: Bourgeois society | Sep. 27, 2026
• Immanuel Kant, "Idea for a universal history from a cosmopolitan point of view" and "What is Enlightenment?" (1784)
+ Being and becoming (freedom in transformation) chart of terms
+ Kant's 3 Critiques [PNG] and philosophy [PNG] charts of terms
• Benjamin Constant, "The liberty of the ancients compared with that of the moderns" (1819)
Week K. Radical bourgeois philosophy VI. Hegel: Freedom in history | Oct. 4, 2026
Week K. Radical bourgeois philosophy VI. Hegel: Freedom in history | Oct. 4, 2026
• G.W.F. Hegel, Introduction to the Philosophy of History (1831) [HTML] [PDF pp. 14-128] [Audiobook]
+ Being and becoming (freedom in transformation) chart of terms
Weekly Socials
Weekly Socials
Austin: Thursdays at 6 pm in the Food Court of the Student Union
Houston: Thursdays, 1 p.m. at RAD Center on UH’s campus
"What is Imperialism, and Why Should We Be Against it?"
on April 18th at 2pm. Location: UT Student Union 3.128
Panelists:
Arshia Papari (Texas Green Party Candidate and Socialist Youth Leader)
Garrett (Revolutionary Communists of America)
Dr. Yoav Di-Capua (Professor of modern Arab intellectual history at UT Austin)
iPad 2"What is Imperialism, and Why Should We Be Against it?" In the 1920 preface to his famous work Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, Vladimir Lenin declared imperialism to be “the eve of the social revolution of the proletariat.” Over 100 years later, Lenin’s prognosis appears to be less than plausible. The world proletarian revolution has yet to occur, yet “imperialism” remains a prominent category on the Left, among both Marxists and non-Marxists. On various fronts such as US agitation towards Iran, Venezuela, and Greenland, the Left invokes a rallying cry of “Imperialism!” Platypus seeks to investigate the meaning of imperialism as a category for the Left today, and how the Left seeks to challenge it. What is imperialism, and why should we be against it? How did Marxism seek to take up the question of imperialism? Is the Marxist response to imperialism adequate? How do you understand the relationship between imperialism, capitalism, and socialism?
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