READ THESE, HELP BREAK THIS DEBATE OPEN EVEN FURTHER BY SPREADING THESE TWO OP-EDS (and respond yourself)...
Marxist scholar reponds to WSN column
by Raymond Lotta
Published November 2, 2009
David Ryan Williams takes the fast, easy and blind road in responding to my speech, "Everything You've Been Told About Communism Is Wrong." Williams ignores the facts and mindlessly repeats the standard lies about communism. These lies can be easily refuted. The only problem is that no one is allowed to seriously do so in the public sphere. Such is the weight and influence of the institutionalized "conventional wisdom" about communism.
Read the rest HERE.
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Communism far from utopia ideal
by David Ryan Williams
Published October 29, 2009
Communist revolutionary Raymond Lotta may have a point — everything we've been told about communism is wrong.
Except Lotta and his cabal believe Marxist revolutions humanely emancipated the masses and can do so again in the U.S. with the "firm grip" of a new socialist revolutionary.
Such thinking is antithetical to actual history. Communism as a form of governance, despite whatever affinity liberal professors and students may have for this utopia of collectivism, is worse than anything conceived in our worst nightmares.
Read the rest HERE.
About Me
- Raymond Lotta campus tour
- Raymond Lotta is a revolutionary intellectual. He takes as his foundation Bob Avakian’s new synthesis and has written extensively on China during and after the Cultural Revolution and played a major role in elucidating the actual thinking of Mao and the so-called Gang of Four that supported Mao. He also played a major role in working to expose the restoration of capitalism in the Soviet Union and China, including through written work and mass public debate. He has, through the Setting the Record Straight project which he leads, fought to spread the truth—and refute the lies—about the experience of the communist revolution in the Soviet Union between 1917 and 1956 and China between 1949 and 1976 (thisiscommunism.org). Most recently, he co-authored “Alain Badiou’s ‘Politics of Emancipation’: A Communism Locked Within the Confines of the Bourgeois World” (demarcations-journal.org). Lotta has also done major work on political economy, including America in Decline (Banner Press, 1984) and “Shifts and Faultlines in the World Economy and Great Power Rivalry,” a four-part series published in Revolution newspaper in July and August 2008.