Ich hab gerade das Buch "Washington Bullets" von Vijay #Prashad fertig gelesen. Es liest sich für mich wie ein Nachfolger von "Blackshirts and Reds" von Michael #Parenti.
Wer die beiden Bücher (oder auch nur eines) gelesen hat und immernoch #linksliberal ist hat glaube ich den Schuss ncht gehört.
Menschen die lesen sehen so klar was abgeht. Ich wünschte alle würden das tun. Zumindest als Hörbuch gibts alle diese Bücher.
Leider noch nicht auf deutsch, was logisch ist bei linkem Gedankengut.
@SeanAloysiusOBrien "During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime's atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn't go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them.
If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum."
*Parenti intensifies...*
#socialism #communism #anarchism #marxism #MichaelParenti #parenti #Chomsky #NoamChomsky #InventingReality #ManufacturingConsent
#Truffe finti carabinieri: boom di voci dei #parenti generate con l’#IA
https://www.larampa.news/2025/01/truffe-finti-carabinieri-boom-voci-parenti-generate-ia/
Vanno in #cimitero e non trovano le #tombe dei #parenti
https://www.larampa.news/2025/01/vanno-in-cimitero-e-non-trovano-le-tombe-dei-parenti/
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Wealth and poverty don't exist so shamefully in contrast, they're in a dynamic interrelationship, because it's wealth that creates poverty.
- Michael Parenti, Lecture, "Terrorism, Globalism and Conspiracy (2002)
#Parenti #Dialectics #Capitalism
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"A closer look reveals that U.S. foreign policy is neither weak nor foolish, but on the contrary is rational and remarkably successful in reproducing the conditions for the continued international expropriation of wealth."
- Michael Parenti, "Dirty Truths" (1996), City Lights Books, p. 57
#Parenti #Imperialism
#Coppia aggredita in #casa: arrestati due loro #parenti
https://www.larampa.news/2024/09/coppia-aggredita-in-casa-arrestati-due-loro-parenti/
#Truffaanziani, si spacciavano per #parenti: fermati tre truffatori
https://www.larampa.news/2024/09/truffa-anziani-spacciavano-parenti-fermati-tre-truffatori/
It's another #parenti post from #tiktok.
I got #pancreatitis back in November 2020. It nearly killed me. I was in ICU for a week and med-surg for another.
When I presented to the ER, with the worst pain in my life, feeling like I was on death's door (I was), do you know what happened first?
THE EXAMINATION OF MY WALLET!
The memory of writhing in agony, grasping frantically for my wallet, hunched over on a cold plastic chair, desperately awaiting care, is a permanent scar.
"And some of us who come from poor families, who carry around the hidden injuries of class, are very impressed -- are very, very impressed -- by these achievements..."
Damn straight. Don't you fucking tell me that the richest country on the planet can't do what the poorest ones did a fucking CENTURY ago.
Full transcript below.
"Communism, ladies and gentlemen, I say it without flinching: Communism in eastern Europe, Russia, China, Mongolia, North Korea, and Cuba, brought land reform and human services; a dramatic bettering of the living conditions of hundreds of millions of people, on a scale never before, or never since, witnessed in human history. And that's something to appreciate. Communism transformed desperately poor countries into societies in which everyone had adequate food, shelter, medical care, and education. And some of us who come from poor families, who carry around the hidden injuries of class, are very impressed -- are very, very impressed -- by these achievements, and are not willing to dismiss them as 'economistic.' To say that 'socialism doesn't work,' is to overlook the fact that it DID work! And it worked for hundreds of millions of people!"
--Michael Parenti
Se il #sindaco si separa, cade incompatibilità #parenti in #giunta
https://www.larampa.news/2024/06/sindaco-separa-cade-incompatibilita-parenti-giunta/
Anche questa Pasqua sono sopravvissuto al pranzo di famiglia, la quale pur sapendo che mangi vegano non si esime dal raccontare come vengono uccisi gli agnelli e si lamenta che il porcellino che stanno mangiando è troppo grosso dovevano ucciderlo più piccolo... #vegano #pasqua #parenti
#Prof ferita, i #parenti: "voleva uccidere, potrebbe rifarlo"
https://www.larampa.it/2024/02/prof-ferita-parenti-voleva-uccidere-potrebbe-rifarlo/
#Machete e mazza per risolvere #dissapori con alcuni #parenti
https://www.larampa.it/2024/02/machete-e-mazza-per-risolvere-dissapori-con-alcuni-parenti/
