Monday, November 2, 2009

Raymond Lotta's response to NYU student newspaper column published today

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.