Zero Squared

In this episode of Pop the Left Douglas Lain and Derick Varn discuss Chris Cutrone's teach-in on Lukacs entitled "CPGB contra Lukacs." Cutrone's lecture was uploaded to the Platypus Affiliated Society's youtube page on Jan 14, 2014 and was a response to Mike McNair's Essay "Lukács: The philosophy trap" which was published in the Weekly Worker in November of 2013.The Teach-In from 2014CPGB contra Lukacs teach-in by Chris Cutrone of Platypushttps://youtu.be/FyAx32lzC0UWhy still read Lukács? The place of “philosophical” questions in Marxismhttps://platypus1917.org/2014/02/01/why-still-read-lukacs-the-place-of-philosophical-questions-in-marxismRelevant Essays:Mike Macnair, "The philosophy trap" 11/21/13https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/987/lukacs-the-philosophy-trap/Chris Cutrone, "Defending Marxist Hegelianism against a Marxist critique" 8/11/11 https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/878/defending-marxist-hegelianism-against-a-marxist-cr/Georg Lukacs, Original Preface (1922) to History and Class Consciousness (1923)h