Featuring Sam Webb, National Chairperson of the Communist Party USA & Dr. Greg Morin, Georgia Libertarian Party
"Is Full Employment Possible Under Capitalism? Solving America's Jobs Crisis"
50 years ago, in 1963, the University of Georgia was a much different place than it is today. Deep in the throes of the Cold War, and still in the wake of the McCarthy Era, geopolitical tension was palpable in ways unimaginable in our day and age. At the height of the ideological battle between communism and capitalism, the Phi Kappa Literary Society of UGA attempted to hold a debate between Arnold Johnson, director of the Information and Lecture Bureau of the Communist Party USA, and Dr. David Wright, leading economic authority at the University of Georgia. This attempt, however, was squelched by a unanimous vote of the Faculty Committee on Student Affairs. Then-President Aderhold went even further, accusing the Society of attempting to “incite riot.”
On Monday, February 25, at 6:30 PM in the University Chapel, the Phi Kappa Literary Society will recreate “The Debate That Never Happened.” Sam Webb, National Chairman of the Communist Party USA, and Dr. Greg Morin, leader within the Georgia Libertarian Party, will square off on the topic “Is Full Employment Possible Under Capitalism? Solving America’s Jobs Crisis.”
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Founded in 1820, the Phi Kappa Literary Society is a student debate organization committed to the mental and moral elevation of it members through the mediums of debate and oratory. Guests are welcome and encouraged to speak on matters of debate every academic Thursday at 7 P.M. in the historic Phi Kappa Hall on North Campus (across the quad from the Holmes-Hunter Academic Building).
