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Book Report: Blackshirts & Reds by Parenti
Blackshirts: Fascists / Nazis
Reds: Socialists / CommunistsThis is the first book by Michael Parenti that I've ever read, and I really enjoyed it. It has many facts and references, and covers the rise of the popularity of capitalism within the USSR, the propaganda about the USSR, including stories about gulags, and addresses problems with the USSR, including problems in resource allocation planning. It covers the effects of the fall of the USSR on Eastern European countries when the capitalists took over, including devastating wealth inequality and poverty.
I've ordered "Against Empire" as my next book from Parenti because I enjoyed this book so much.
https://www.michael-parenti.org/book-blackshirts-and-reds
#socialism #communism #capitalism #fascism #nazi #easterneurope #parenti #michaelparenti #blackshirts #blackshirtsandreds #againstempire
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Many erudite and profound words are being written across the world on the passing of Michael Parenti.
I can't match them. All I can say is that, though I never met him, through his books he became my teacher & valued as a comrade. A man who lived to tear down the ideologies of capitalism, imperialism, racism and oppression and willingly bore the consequences.
Love and strength to his friends and family, the struggle continues!
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Ich hab gerade das Buch "Washington Bullets" von Vijay #Prashad fertig gelesen. Es liest sich für mich wie ein Nachfolger von "Blackshirts and Reds" von Michael #Parenti.
Wer die beiden Bücher (oder auch nur eines) gelesen hat und immernoch #linksliberal ist hat glaube ich den Schuss ncht gehört.
Menschen die lesen sehen so klar was abgeht. Ich wünschte alle würden das tun. Zumindest als Hörbuch gibts alle diese Bücher.
Leider noch nicht auf deutsch, was logisch ist bei linkem Gedankengut.
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@SeanAloysiusOBrien "During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime's atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn't go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them.
If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum."
*Parenti intensifies...*
#socialism #communism #anarchism #marxism #MichaelParenti #parenti #Chomsky #NoamChomsky #InventingReality #ManufacturingConsent
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Wealth and poverty don't exist so shamefully in contrast, they're in a dynamic interrelationship, because it's wealth that creates poverty.
- Michael Parenti, Lecture, "Terrorism, Globalism and Conspiracy (2002)
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✨unsettlingempire.cardd.co✨"A closer look reveals that U.S. foreign policy is neither weak nor foolish, but on the contrary is rational and remarkably successful in reproducing the conditions for the continued international expropriation of wealth."
- Michael Parenti, "Dirty Truths" (1996), City Lights Books, p. 57
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It's another #parenti post from #tiktok.
I got #pancreatitis back in November 2020. It nearly killed me. I was in ICU for a week and med-surg for another.
When I presented to the ER, with the worst pain in my life, feeling like I was on death's door (I was), do you know what happened first?
THE EXAMINATION OF MY WALLET!
The memory of writhing in agony, grasping frantically for my wallet, hunched over on a cold plastic chair, desperately awaiting care, is a permanent scar.
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"And some of us who come from poor families, who carry around the hidden injuries of class, are very impressed -- are very, very impressed -- by these achievements..."
Damn straight. Don't you fucking tell me that the richest country on the planet can't do what the poorest ones did a fucking CENTURY ago.
Full transcript below.
"Communism, ladies and gentlemen, I say it without flinching: Communism in eastern Europe, Russia, China, Mongolia, North Korea, and Cuba, brought land reform and human services; a dramatic bettering of the living conditions of hundreds of millions of people, on a scale never before, or never since, witnessed in human history. And that's something to appreciate. Communism transformed desperately poor countries into societies in which everyone had adequate food, shelter, medical care, and education. And some of us who come from poor families, who carry around the hidden injuries of class, are very impressed -- are very, very impressed -- by these achievements, and are not willing to dismiss them as 'economistic.' To say that 'socialism doesn't work,' is to overlook the fact that it DID work! And it worked for hundreds of millions of people!"
--Michael Parenti
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“Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.” (H. L. Mencken)
"The mass media are class media." (Michael Parenti)
In the 80's I studied #media and #democracy but most of it went over my head. Years later I saw the film MANUFACTURING CONSENT and boom! it all hit me like a ton of bricks.
The video below is a great summary overview of Noam #Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent" & Michael #Parenti's "Inventing Reality."
Everything here rings true to me:
https://youtu.be/unKNNiYQFp4
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I have recently finished reading the three biggest works from Michael #Parenti, "Blackshirts and Reds" "Against Empire" and "Democracy for the few." They are excellent entry level works for anyone who considers themselves to be left. I've had friends from #liberal to #socialist interested in reading these books after talking to them and have bought a few of them copies, as well as loaned out one of my own!
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Ricomincia la saga dei parenti inventati dei "poteri forti", un assurdo albero genealogico
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