The Crisis of the American Revolution (4/10/26 panel)

On April 10th, 2026 at Northwestern University, the Platypus Affiliated Society hosted a panel titled "The Crisis of the American Revolution" as a panel at its 18th International Convention. Description: Following the re-election of Lincoln as president, Marx wrote to the American people: “From the commencement of the titanic American strife the workingmen of Europe felt instinctively that the star-spangled banner carried the destiny of their class… [In America] the idea of one great Democratic Republic had first sprung up, whence the first Declaration of the Rights of Man was issued and the first impulse given to the European revolution of the eighteenth century.” Given the seismic policies of Trump's second term, we ask: Does the American Revolution persist today? What is/was the American Revolution? How does it inform the conditions of possibility for the Left today? What tasks, if any, do the Left inherit from the American Revolution? Do we need new interpretations of the American Revolution? Speakers: Chris Cutrone (Platypus Affiliated Society) Edith Fischer (Revolutionary Communist Organisation) Ingar Solty (Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung) Moderator: Erin Hagood ___________________________________ Curious to learn more about Platypus? E-mail [email protected] to be connected with a chapter in your area. The Platypus Affiliated Society 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. http://www.platypus1917.org