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ABOUT RAYMOND LOTTA | RESOURCES | SOCIALIST EXPERIENCE | COMMUNISM'S FUTURE MISSION STATEMENT From a thousand different directions, we are bombarded with the message that communism was a “nightmare” and “failure.” Go into a bookstore and look at the current titles on Mao, the Cultural Revolution, or socialism in the Soviet Union. Take a listen when commentators on TV and radio say something about communism. Leaf through a standard-issue textbook on modern history. There’s a highly distorted narrative of socialism in the 20th century and it goes largely unanswered. The mission of Set the Record Straight is to factually refute the lies spread in the media, mass-market books, and mainstream scholarship about the Soviet and Chinese revolutions—upholding the overwhelming achievements and pointing to problems and shortcomings. We seek to open up a two-sided debate about socialism and communism and to promote a conversation about why a radically different and liberating world is possible. In all of this, we are bringing forward Bob Avakian’s exciting vision of a vibrant communism for the 21st century. At a time when the world is in great peril, the intellectual landscape needs to change—and a new generation of students and scholars needs to engage the question of communism’s past and communism’s future in a whole new way. Set the Record Straight seeks to challenge the paralyzing conventional wisdom about communism that has seeped so deeply into popular understanding and to raise people’s sights to a far better future for humanity. GET IN TOUCH WITH US Let us know what you think about this project and ways to increase its impact. Invite Set the Record Straight to your college or university. Help set up programs on campuses and in communities. Contact us for interviews in the media. Strategize with us about rebutting high-profile anticommunist memoirs and studies. Use the informational materials available on the Set the Record Straight website. Make donations so that we can carry on the work of the project. CONTACT INFORMATION Set the Record Straight P.O. Box 981 Chicago, IL 60690-0981 Telephone: 312-399-1981 Set the Record Straight is a program of the International Humanities Center, a nonprofit organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the IRS code. |
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