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Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism by Michael Parenti (Paperback, 1997)
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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. 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. 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 Journalist Blackshirts & 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. 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. Fascism is not an aberration, he points out, but a rational and integral component of the system. -Stan Goff, The Prism Michael Parenti, PhD Yale, is an internationally known author and lecturer. He is one of the nation's leadiing progressive political analysts. He is the author of over 275 published articles and twenty books. 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. His informative and entertaining books and talks have reached a wide range of audiences in North America and abroad.Product Identifiers
PublisherCity Lights
ISBN-139780872863293
eBay Product ID (ePID)90269993
Product Key Features
Number of Pages165 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameBlackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
Publication Year1997
TypeTextbook
AuthorMichael Parenti
Subject AreaPolitical Science
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height205 mm
Item Weight240 g
Item Width142 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorMichael Parenti
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- 29 May, 2021
I have been planning to read ' Parenti' for sometime now, so will be finding out pretty soon!
Small, but very tidy book, arrived when said it would, there not a lot more you can add.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
