Fwd: Political Disobedience vs. Revolution, a Debate on May 5

[Benjamin Blumberg]

Hey NYC 'podes, 

This would be worth attending. Harcourt is a professor at uchicago who we've had some dealings with. He spoke at the convention and is now moderating the Cornel West/ Carl Dix event happening next Monday. It would also be good to keep up our engagements with the RCP, who are still interested in doing things with us despite their "boycott" of the convention. 

-Ben 

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From: "Harcourt, Bernard" <harc...@uchicago.edu>
Date: May 1, 2012 7:22:52 PM EDT
To: Benjamin Blumberg <benjamin....@gmail.com>
Subject: Political Disobedience vs. Revolution, a Debate on May 5

Hi Ben – here is the information. I will be in NYC on Saturday evening, May 5^th, participating in a conversation about Occupy Wall Street at the New School.  It would be great if you could join us.  Please feel free to circulate the information to friends. Warm regards, Bernard.

 

Bernard E. Harcourt

Julius Kreeger Professor of Law and Professor and Chair of the Political Science Department

The University of Chicago

Personal website:  http://bernardharcourt.com

 

Political Disobedience vs. Revolution An Exchange and Debate on the Significance and Implications of the Occupy Movement between Bernard Harcourt and Raymond Lotta Saturday, May 5, 2012. 5:00-7:00 PM. The New School, Wolff Conference Room, 6 East 16th Street, Room 1103, in NYC. No RSVP is required. Seating is first come, first served. Bernard Harcourt, writing in the Opinionator blog of the New York Times, described the Occupy Movement as marking a “political paradigm shift,” a new form of “political disobedience” involving a “leaderless” organization refusing to embrace “old ideologies”--whether of free markets or communism. In the editorial, Harcourt specifically engaged Raymond Lotta, an advocate of Bob Avakian’s new synthesis of communism, who had recently spoken at Occupy Wall Street. Lotta responded: the question is not whether there will be ideology or leadership--these are in play one way or another--but what kind of ideology and what kind of leadership are needed to overcome oppression and exploitation. The repression directed against the Occupy movement underscores the importance of these questions of social protest and societal transformation. In December, Harcourt and Lotta had the first round of their debate at Occupy Chicago. Now the debate continues at The New School. Come ask questions and participate in this vital debate and exchange. Bernard Harcourt is Chairman of the Political Science department and Professor of Law at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Illusion of Free Markets. Raymond Lotta is a political economist and contributor to Revolution newspaper. He has been speaking about the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America. Sponsors: Revolution Books and the Center for Public Scholarship at The New School in New York City. CPS Upcoming Events c...@newschool.edu 917.534.9330 Share with colleagues t gv   Copyright © 2011 Center for Public Scholarship The New School, 80 Fifth Avenue, Room 501, New York, NY 10011 To unsubscribe, click here

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