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RIP to one of the greatest.
He fearlessly taught audiences and readers, during the fiercely anti-communist Reagan era, that class struggle is very much alive.
His critiques on western media, revolutionary history and the events of his era, are invaluable.
He articulated Marxism in a clear and understandable way not for other professors, but for the general public, to awaken our class conciousness, and become fighters for a better world.
We’ll miss you comrade.
Thank you Michael Parenti for being a trail blazing lecturer for us American comrades especially to unlearn and deconstruct the layers of bourgeois propaganda.
He truly was one of the greats. Parenti managed to explain Marxism in a very accessible way, and he delivered a impassioned critique of capitalism and imperialism. It’s impossible to listen to his lectures and not be moved by them. You will be missed comrade.
What a terrible news to wake up to. RIP Parenti. He was a great teacher for plenty of us.
RIP
Damn that’s sad news. RIP
Blackshirts and Reds was pivotal in helping me see AES states more realistically. Rest now, Parenti. Our struggle goes on and you can lay down your weary head. I wish you could have been here to see it through, but we will do what we can to carry it through to the end.
Thank you for opening me up to Marxism Leninism, without your works, I’d still be a damned liberal.
A big loss to the left, but we must build on more despite these difficult times.
Rest in power, Comrade Parenti.
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He didn’t always have the right takes, but he was a great orator. Brought up a whole generation of communists.
And most of all, he showed us if there can be one Parenti, there can be many more. Our only limit is the one we put on ourselves.
Rest in peace, comrade. It cannot be overstated what tremendous value you gave to the left in the west, in creating comrades out of liberals. May we carry on the torch!
“Yellow Parenti” Speech and Blackshirts and Reds | Audiobook
Millions of proletarians will repeat our words: “Long live the memory of Comrade Parenti. At his graveside we solemnly vow to fight still harder for the overthrow of capital and for the complete emancipation of the working people… .”
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be wary it’s a very pro-serbia book, as many non-serb yugoslavs have let me know.
It’s an anti-imperialist book.
what is an “anti-imperialist book”?
from what i have heard, anti-nato
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That’s the problem, I’m not sure I could do it justice. But Parenti did make claims in the book such as:
What is still not widely understood in the West is that most of the ethnic cleansing throughout the former Yugoslavia was perpetrated not by the Serbs but against them.
Which understandably is not well-received by the other nationalities/ethnicities involved in the war. I don’t think even the claim of most holds up.
These types of claim repeat all over in the book, basically presenting a very one-sided view that is pro-Serbia/pro-Bosnian Serbs and the book seems to talk about little else. It’s not necessarily bad in a vacuum (provided the info is accurate which was not among the issues brought up to me about the book), but many people use this book as a basis for understanding the Yugoslav/Bosnian wars and on that it can’t be a good source due to only talking about Bosnian Serbs and how it presents them in relation to the conflict.
Is it true that:
“the much heavier and “nearly incessant bombardment of Mostar” by Croatian forces, causing “far greater human and physical damage than Sarajevo,” according to Susan Woodward, received almost no world attention, and demonstrated how thoroughly the media could be managed”?
And that:
“Bosnian Muslim forces at Sarajevo, UN observers noted, were often the first to begin the daily artillery barrages, firing on Serb targets and Serb neighborhoods in order to provoke a response and trigger Western military intervention”?
Yes, probably. Yet what Parenti has to say about the siege is:
Bosnian Serb forces had offered safe passage to all civilians. With noncombatants out of the way, especially women and children, the Serbs would be able to treat Sarajevo as a purely military target.
And recently we found out about how the Bosnian Serb army organized “human safaris” for foreigners during the siege of Sarajevo. Purely military target indeed.
He probably couldn’t have known about that crime back when he wrote the book as the allegations only recently came to light, but you can see how it skews the picture, basically taking the Bosnian Serb claims at face value and not offering the same treatment to the other participants. It’s very one-sided and for that reason can’t be a history lesson, it should be read very critically, more as an analysis of media manipulation.
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Not gonna lie. I thought he was dead for like 20 years already.
RIP to a legend
He had some memory related brain issues for a decade or so, its why he sort of disappeared for a while.
Rest in peace.
Rest in power, Comrade. Thank you for helping me understand US Imperialism, consent manufacturing, etc.
RIP, he will never be forgotten.
