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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

What a genuinely wonderful speaker, anyone who hasn't yet read Blackshirts and Reds or viewed his 1986 "Yellow Parenti" lecture owe it to themselves to do so immediately. Unlike many other Marxists, he speaks clearly and in common terms, for direct communication with the average person. They are the best radicalization works I have seen, with the ability to turn liberals into Marxist-Leninists practically immediately upon finishing them.

Especially read and watch if you consider yourself left or left-leaning, but denounce AES as "redfash" or otherwise denounce the USSR, Cuba, etc. Blackshirts isn't so much a glorification of AES states as it is a critical examination of what they managed to achieve for their people despite their geopolitical circumstances.

Truly a wonderful voice.