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DESCRIPTION:Discussion of Raymond Lotta's article,Vilifying Communism and Accommodating 
 Imperialism: The Sham and Shame of Slavoj Žižek's "Honest 
 Pessimism"\n\nThe 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\nhttp://revcom.us/a/256/vilifying_communism_and_accommodating_imperialism-en.html\nLink 
 to Lotta's challenge to Žižek for a public  
 debate.\nhttp://revcom.us/a/260/lotta-challenge-to-zizek-en.html\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/04/01/18710529.php
SUMMARY:Discusssion of Vilifying Communism and 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/2012/04/01/18710529.php
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