Raymond Lotta "Sets the Record Straight" on the history of 20th Century socialism

Next stop for Raymond Lotta's Setting the Record Straight campus speaking tour is Columbia University... into the belly of the intellectual beast. Challenging the barrage of reactionary garbage thrown over the history of revolutionary socialism with a powerful grasp of history, Lotta is more than up to the task.

For anyone concerned with changing the world, who wants a deeper history of the triumphs and failures of 20th Century socialism – break plans and make plans to hear Raymond Lotta. Ask your real questions, treat socialism and communism with an open mind -- even if that's already where you're trying to get.

I heard that after an hour-long presentation, Ray Lotta will open the room up for questions and answers. He knows the history as more than just a "narrative." He is a materialist who understands the force of ideas.

I'll be there, with my toughest questions.

Columbia University
Thursday, April 20, 6:00 pm
Faculty House, Harison Rm, 2nd Floor
400 West 117th St. (between Amsterdam & Morningside)

Download the leaflet and postcard for the NYC program.

Full event description follows

On February 23, Raymond Lotta spoke at Harvard University. The audience included students from diverse fields, including economics, anthropology, and romance languages. There were students from Eastern Europe and a few visiting scholars from other parts of the world. A member of the Harvard Medical School faculty emceed the program. read more...

In October 2005, the Set the Record Straight project hit the University of California-Berkeley and UCLA campuses. This was the first round of Raymond Lotta's national campus speaking tour: "Socialism is Much Better Than Capitalism, and Communism Will Be a Far Better World." The political and ideological climate cries out for this project. Here we are: unjust war in Iraq and the "normalization" of torture, half the planet living on less than $2 a day, strangulation of the Earth's ecosystem, natural disasters like tsunamis and hurricanes that become social disasters. These are the workings and outcomes of world capitalism. Growing numbers of people are concerned about the state of the world and the fate of the planet. Do things have to be this way? read more...

At UCLA, the campus reactionaries took notice and alarm. On the day of the speech, the campus republicans wrote an anticommunist rant in The Daily Bruin of UCLA attacking the speech and the two departments sponsoring it. Set the Record Straight replied in The Daily Bruin .

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Click here to read the text of the speech serialized in Revolution.

Contact SettheRecordStraight@hotmail.com

Comments

[ShineThePath]

I went to the one in Harvard, it was great. Lotta gives an amazing examination of the history of the USSR and China, and he anwsers some of the toughest questions on history, politics, and economics. It promises to an academically honest and engaging exprience...I'll be there, probably with less harder questions than Burningman because I asked mine in Harvard.

[Comrade ZACK]

Man, wish he would come to Texas. I'd love to go to a speech. His series is Revolution is really great.

[ShineThePath]

Comrade Zack, if you have a place to host Raymond Lotta in Texas, contact Set The Record Straight and start arranging a date when Lotta can come to Texas.

[TBD within 2 weeks]

I would like to attend on this event.

Kevin