Wednesday, March 10, 2021

Mon 3/15: Invitation to attend debate on the Democratic Party and the Left

Invitation to attend a four-way debate on "The Democratic Party and the Left" we are holding on Monday, March 15th at 4 PM Pacific/5 PM Mountain/6 PM Central/7 PM Eastern between: 


(1) Harvey Kaye (Professor Emeritus of Democracy & Justice Studies at University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, author of The Fight for the Four Freedoms: What Made FDR and the Greatest Generation Truly Great (Simon & Schuster, 2014))

(2) Reid Kotlas (Liberty Union Party candidate for US Senate from Vermont in 2018, author of "Would Eugene Debs support socialists running as Democrats? Sanders, Shachtmanism, and the death of the Debs legacy" https://platypus1917.org/2018/10/01/would-eugene-debs-support-socialists-running-as-democrats-sanders-shachtmanism-and-the-death-of-the-debs-legacy/)

(3) Wayne Price (author of The Abolition of the State: Anarchist and Marxist Perspectives https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/wayne-price-the-abolition-of-the-state)

(4) Gerald Smith (founding member of Berkeley Copwatch, organized anti-apartheid protests at UC Berkeley, coordinated the efforts of Occupy Oakland, former member of the Black Panther Party)

Zoom link here:

What was the historical relationship between the Left and the Democratic Party, and what can that tell us today about the problems and tasks inherited from the 1920s-30s Old Left, the 1960s-70s New Left, and even earlier?

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