Loving your Parenti-series of posts as of late! For anyone that hasn’t read or listened to the late Michael Parenti before, I highly recommend the “Yellow Parenti” Speech on US interventionism, the third world, and the USSR and Blackshirts and Reds | Audiobook. His lecture on “Inventing Reality” is also excellent.

Michael Parenti’s Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media has always been better than Manufacturing Consent, which is what Chomsky is most known for anyways. Chomsky has always been terrible as a leftist. Highly recommend On Chomsky. For learning about Marxism-Leninism in general, I recommend my intro ML reading list.