The Winner by a very large margin is:

’Blackshirts & Reds’ (2001) - Michael Parenti | tag: Marxism-Leninism

Parenti shows how “rational fascism” renders service to capitalism. How corporate power undermines democracy, and how revolutions are a form of mass empowerment against forces of exploitative privilege. He also maps the external and internal forces that destroyed communism and the disastrous impact of the “free-market” victory on Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. source

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  • May 22nd: Blackshirts and Reds Part 1
  • June 5th: Blackshirts and Reds Part 2
  • June 19: Blackshirts and Reds Part 3
  • Jul 3rd: Blackshirts and Reds Part 4

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Gonna add to this. Chomsky’s “How The World Works” - its a collection of easily digestable speeches transcribed into words. Nice n simple. Gave me enough knowledge to dunk on every pro-american person I’ve ever had the misfortune of meeting.

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Most of Lenin’s stuff is like that too. All surprisingly easy to comprehend and even when he does get into the more theoretical stuff, he usually includes a quote and breaks it down.

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If you’ve never read lefty literature this is the ABSOLUTE BEST PLACE TO START. Parenti makes complex topics pretty easy to grasp with real life examples. There are also tons of footnotes to help out with more obscure events or concepts. You’ll be able to understand all of it and sound smart talking about it as well.

Obligatory 🔥 Parenti speech

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Why is the video marked as Youtube Kids lmao

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teach em young

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No idea never too soon to talk about exploitation of the third world though

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Started reading yesterday, damn thing is so good and to the point that I already finished today

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Read To Kill a Nation and Inventing Reality too

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yey :party-parenti:

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ONLY 165 pages! it’s happening I’m actually going to read thank you everyone for choosing this

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