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DESCRIPTION:Join us for a panel discussion on "What is Socialism?" in which various 
 perspectives on the Left engage this question - followed by a Q&A with the 
 audience. \n\nThis is a free and public event.\n\nThe panel begins at 
 2:30PM and is located at Berkeley City College (2050 Center St, Berkeley) 
 in Room #55 (downstairs). \n\nPanel Description:\n\n"This panel invites the 
 speakers to reflect on the history of social democracy from a leftist 
 viewpoint. Such a perspective raises the specter of the Second 
 International, the political organization that led the workers’ movement 
 for socialism around the turn of the 20th century.\n\nThe memory of social 
 democracy is resuscitated by such phenomena as SYRIZA, Podemos, Jeremy 
 Corbyn, and Bernie Sanders. But, do we in fact still need to reckon with 
 the earlier history of Marxism—the split between Communists and Social 
 Democrats—in order to understand the problem and project of social 
 democracy today? How are the questions of social democracy and social 
 revolution related today, in light of history? What has social democracy 
 come to signify politically?"\n\nSpeakers:\n\nGrover Furr (Montclair State 
 University)\nJames R. Martel (San Francisco State University)\nRon Kelch 
 (News & Letters)\nGerald Smith (Oscar Grant Committee)\n\nHosted by the 
 Platypus Affiliated Society\nwww.platypus1917.org\n\nThe Platypus 
 Affiliated Society, established in December 2006, organizes reading groups, 
 public fora, research and journalism focused on problems and tasks 
 inherited from the “Old” (1920s-30s), “New” (1960s-70s) and 
 post-political (1980s-90s) Left for the possibilities of emancipatory 
 politics today.\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/03/03/18807128.php
SUMMARY:What is Socialism? A Panel Discussion
LOCATION:Berkeley City College (2050 Center St, Berkeley) in Room #55 (downstairs)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/03/03/18807128.php
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