Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, revolution, democracy, and ecology--terms 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.
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His informative and entertaining books and talks have reached a wide range of audiences in North America and abroad.
His writings are published in popular periodicals, scholarly journals, and his op-ed pieces have been in leading newspapers such as The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times.
He is the author of over 275 published articles and twenty books.
He is one of the nation\'s leading progressive political analysts.
Fascism is not an aberration, he points out, but a Rational and integral component of the system.--Stan Goff, The PrismMichael Parenti, PhD Yale, is an internationally known author and lecturer.
By portraying the struggle between Fascism and Communism in this century as a single conflict, and not a series of discrete encounters, between the insatiable need for new capital on the one hand and the survival of a system under siege on the other, Parenti defines Fascism as the weapon of capitalism, not simply an extreme form of it.
It is a bold and entertaining exploration of the epic struggles of yesterday and today.
A penetrating and persuasive writer with an astonishing array of documentation to implement his attacks.--The Catholic JournalistBlackshirts & Reds discusses the great combat between Fascism and socialism that is the defining feature of the Twentieth Century, and takes every official version to task for its substitution of moral analysis for critical analysis, for its selectivity, and for its errata.
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.
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.
Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, revolution, democracy, and ecology--terms 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
