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DESCRIPTION:Join us at Revolution Books for a discussion on Raymond Lotta's 
 article,"Vilifying Communism and Accommodating Imperialism: The Sham and 
 Shame of Slavoj Žižek's "Honest Pessimism". The December 2011-January 
 2012 issue of The Platypus Review features an interview with philosopher 
 and cultural theorist Slavoj Žižek. Raymond Lotta writes that it"is a 
 fusillade of distortion of the historical experience of revolution and 
 socialism in the 20th century, accompanied by an egregiously uninformed and 
 unprincipled attack on Bob Avakian's new synthesis of communism."\n\nLotta, 
 who has challenged Žižek to a public debate, says, "Žižek's musings 
 about communism are dressed up as new and nuanced thinking, but on display 
 is a rather old and clunky anti-communism of a piece with the dominant 
 bourgeois narrative of communism as "failure" and "horror." Žižek 
 portrays himself as "anti-capitalist," but on parade are apologetics for 
 capitalist-imperialism."\n\nLink to Platypus Review and the interview with 
 Slavoj Žižek.\n\nLink to the polemic Vilifying Communism and 
 Accommodating Imperialism: The Sham and Shame of Slavoj Žižek's "Honest 
 Pessimism" by Raymond Lotta\n\nLink to Lotta's challenge to Žižek for a 
 public debate.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/03/23/18709976.php
SUMMARY:Join Revolution Books in a discussion on Vilifying Communism & Accommodating Imperialism
LOCATION:Revolution Books\n2425 Channing Way(in the Sather Gate Parking Mall off of 
 Telegraph Avenue). Wheelchair accessible, donations accepted.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/03/23/18709976.php
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