
Blackshirts and Reds
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A bold and entertaining exploration of the epic struggles of yesterday and today.
Blackshirts & 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.
"A penetrating and persuasive writer with an astonishing array of documentation to implement his attacks." -The Catholic Journalist
"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, author of Full Spectrum Disorder: The Military in the New American Century
Michael Parenti, PhD Yale, is an internationally known author and lecturer. He is one of the nation's leading progressive political analysts. 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.
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- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Acknowledgments
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Rational Fascism
- Plutocrats Choose Autocrats
- Whom Did the Fascists Support?
- Kudos for Adolph and Benito
- The Rational Use of Irrational Ideology
- Patriarchy and Pseudo-Revolution
- Friendly to Fascism
- 2 Let Us Now Praise Revolution
- The Costs of Counterrevolution
- Presumptions of Power
- Whose Violence?
- Free Market for the Few
- The Freedom of Revolution
- What Measure of Pain?
- 3 Left Anticommunism
- Genuflection to Orthodoxy
- Pure Socialism vs. Siege Socialism
- Decentralization vs. Survival
- 4 Communism In Wonderland
- Rewarding Inefficiency
- Nobody Minding the Store
- Wanting It All
- Reactionism to the Surface
- Romanticizing Capitalism
- 5 Stalin's Fingers
- How Many Victims?
- Where Did the Gulag Go?
- Memories of Maldevelopment
- 6 The Free-Market Paradise Goes East (I)
- Suppression of the Left
- One-Way Democracy
- Must We Adore Vaclav Havel?
- Colonizing the East
- 7 The Free-Market Paradise Goes East (II)
- For Vipers and Bloodsuckers
- Shock Therapy for the Many
- Crime and Corruption
- Cultural Decay
- Women and Children Last
- "We Didn't Realize What We Had"
- 8 The End of Marxism?
- Some Durable Basics
- More Right than Wrong
- More Wealth, More Poverty
- A Holistic Science
- Learning to Ask Why
- 9 Anything But Class: Avoiding The C-Word
- The Class Denial of Class
- The ABC Theorists
- Everyday Class Struggle
- Wealth and Power
- Eco-Apocalypse, a Class Act
- Index
- About The Author
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