The Winner by a very large margin is:

’Blackshirts & Reds’ (2001) - Michael Parenti | tag: Marxism-Leninism

Parenti shows how “rational fascism” renders service to capitalism. How corporate power undermines democracy, and how revolutions are a form of mass empowerment against forces of exploitative privilege. He also maps the external and internal forces that destroyed communism and the disastrous impact of the “free-market” victory on Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. source

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  • May 22nd: Blackshirts and Reds Part 1
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  • Jul 3rd: Blackshirts and Reds Part 4

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  • marxisthayaca [he/him,they/them]
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    4 years ago

    We don't know what everyone's got going on, I didn't fully finish Hammer and Hoe cause of Grad School end-of-term projects (will be finishing at the same time I read this). If we get some good, healthy discussions in the book by early June, I'll talk to redcloud about adding another short read. I also plan to add a bunch of parenti lectures that fell out of a van and into my Gdrive folder, so you can take a leisurely pace.

    Additionally, with the way Perusall works and actively encourages annotations. Annotating books can make for a richer and more in-depth read of the text, but it can also make it MUCH slower.