This is the second of two debates on recrudescent socialism, hosted by the Institute of World Politics on Nov. 15, 2019. Resolved: That Socialism/Communism, having failed repeatedly in the 20th century at the economic level, now seeks to achieve its social goals via Cultural Marxism.
On the Left, the participants included Micah Uetricht, an assistant editor at Jacobin, as well as the author of Bigger than Bernie: How We Go from the Sanders Campaign to Democratic Socialism and Strike for America: Chicago Teachers Against Austerity; and Nicole Aschoff is the author of The Smartphone Society: Technology, Power, and Resistance in the New Gilded Age and The New Prophets of Capital, and an editor-at-large at Jacobin magazine.
On the Right, Michael Anton served as spokesman for President Donald Trump's National Security Council during the first term and was director of Policy Planning at the State Department during the second. He is the author of the essay, "The Flight 93 Election." Mike Gonzalez is a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, and writes on national identity, diversity, multiculturalism, assimilation, and nationalism. He is the author of A Race for the Future: How Conservatives Can Break the Liberal Monopoly on Hispanic America and The Plot to Change America: How Identity Politics is Dividing the Land of the Free.
You can find Part One here. Which side do you think won?
Article tags: Claremont Institute, Micah Uetricht, Mike Anton, Mike Gonzalez, Nicole Aschoff
