We invite you to tune in Friday, November 15 at 9:30 am ET for a special day-long debate examining the past, present, and future of Socialism/Communism, hosted by the Institute of World Politics.
Sponsored by the Claremont Institute together with the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation and produced by the Imprimatur Group to mark the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the program will feature a morning debate on the economic viability of a socialist or communist system while the afternoon session will explore the nature of cultural Marxism, which has been argued to have supplanted the tenets and goals of economic Marxism with a new emphasis on “social justice.”
Participants include Michael Anton, former member of the National Security Council, lecturer and research fellow at Hillsdale College, and a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute; Marek Chodakiewiz, Professor of History at the Institute of World Politics, historian Ronald Radosh, a former Marxist and author of The Rosenberg File, and Michael Gonzalez, a senior fellow at the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy at The Heritage Foundation.
On the left, the debaters are Bhaskar Sunkara, the founding editor and publisher of Jacobin Magazine, author and managing editor of Jacobin Micah Uetricht, Eric Blanc, an author and contributor to Jacobin and The Nation, and sociologist Nicole Aschoff, author of The New Prophets of Capital. The debate will be moderated by cultural historian Michael Walsh, author of The Devil’s Pleasure Palace and The Fiery Angel, who will deliver a special lunchtime presentation about his personal experiences in Berlin when the Wall fell.
