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
This is the tentative schedule:
- 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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I will be seeing you in the margins comrades, as we annotate and discuss this book week to week.
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.
Started reading yesterday, damn thing is so good and to the point that I already finished today
yey :party-parenti:
ONLY 165 pages! it’s happening I’m actually going to read thank you everyone for choosing this