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Blackshirts and Reds
Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
by Michael Parenti
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This edition was published in 1997 by City Lights Books in San Francisco, Calif.
Written in English
— 165 pages
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.
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Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
1997, City Lights Books
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Blackshirts and Reds
Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
First published in 1997
Subjects
Anti-communist movements, Capitalism, Communism, Fascism, Free enterprise, Post-communism, RevolutionsWork Description
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.
Blackshirts and Reds
Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
This edition was published in 1997 by City Lights Books in San Francisco, Calif.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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