[URPE] Socialism vs Capitalism Debate at Brown

[raymond lotta]

Dear URPE
friends and colleagues,

I thought those
of you in the New England area might be interested in this upcoming debate that
I will be engaged in at Brown University, sponsored by the Janus Forum:



Date: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 - 7:00pm - 8:30pm

Location: MacMillan 117



Socialism
versus Capitalism: The Way Forward in the 21st Century

A debate between Raymond Lotta and Glenn Loury

The Occupy movement has brought increasing
attention to questions of injustice and inequalities in U.S. society. It has also
opened up a conversation about the nature and future of capitalism, and whether
there are viable alternatives to the present system. Two provocative thinkers—one
a conventionally trained academic economist of progressive sensibility, the other
a voice of revolution and communism—come together to explore and debate the question
of capitalism vs. socialism.



Glenn Loury is Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences at Brown
University. Among other writings, he co-edited the special issue of Daedalus in 2010, “The Challenges of
Mass Incarceration in America.”

Raymond Lotta is a political economist and writer
for Revolution newspaper, who advocates
for Bob Avakian’s new synthesis of communism. He has been speaking on the Constitution for the New
Socialist Republic in North America.


 		 	   		  
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