Rest in peace, comrade.

For those who haven’t read or seen Parenti speak, I highly recommend both the “Yellow Parenti” Speech and Blackshirts and Reds | Audiobook both litanies against anti-communist mythos, an examination of the real successes and struggles in the USSR, and an analysis of fascism.

Michael Parenti’s Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media has always been better than Manufacturing Consent. Considering Chomsky’s appearance in the Epstein files as being good friends with billionaire pedophiles, On Chomsky is also a fantastic read for why the left should reject him.

Parenti has turned countless westerners into Marxists, and was vital in my own journey to the left. May we carry on his legacy.

  • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.mlOP
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    5 hours ago

    Interesting point! I tend to do similar, I try to focus on “blurred areas” where people are open to socialism but not yet aware of it or educated on it. Per bit of energy, it’s far more effective in gaining new comrades, and these comrades can in-turn create new comrades from the new “blurred areas!”

    • Dippy@beehaw.org
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      4 hours ago

      Everyone starts somewhere or nowhere at all. To quote my favorite book, Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson “the most important step isnt the first, is it? No, it’s the next step, always the next one.”