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Blackshirts and Reds

Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

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Blackshirts and Reds

Written by: Michael Parenti
Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
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A bold and entertaining exploration of the epic struggles of yesterday and today.

Blackshirts and Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, revolution, democracy, and ecology. These terms are often bandied about but seldom explored in the original and exciting way that has become Michael Parenti's trademark.

Parenti shows how "rational fascism" renders service to capitalism, how corporate power undermines democracy, and how revolutions are a mass empowerment against the forces of exploitative privilege. He also maps out 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. He affirms the relevance of taboo ideologies like Marxism, demonstrating the importance of class analysis in understanding political realities and dealing with the ongoing collision between ecology and global corporatism.

Written with lucid and compelling style, this book goes beyond truncated modes of thought, inviting us to entertain iconoclastic views and to ask why things are as they are.

©1997 Michael Parenti (P)2022 Tantor Communism & Socialism Fascism Ideologies & Doctrines International Relations Politics & Government
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By far the best unmasking of the cruelty of capitalism and imperialism that we all live in.

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incisive and timeless analysis by parenti. It is a must read to understand the contemporaries world. more so if you you are from the third world and have drunk the free market kool aid

incisive and timeless analysis

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