Inspired by reading King Leopold's Ghost, which compares the Belgian genocide in late 1800's-early 1900's Congo to the Soviet Gulags, and then reading Imperial Reckoning, which compares the British torture camps in 1950's Kenya to the Soviet Gulags, and also by reading Golden Gulag, which compares mass incarceration in California to, you guessed it...
Parenti gets it right in Blackshirts & Reds:
Was pretty funny reading King Leopold's Ghost and noticing all the anti-Soviet shit and then reading Blackshirts & Reds and seeing Hochschild get called out by name
imagine thinking "credibility" matters more than class interests
Liberals barely even acknowledge that class interests exist. A lot of the things that Marxists consider to be the most basic and elemental foundations of the world are like alien concepts to libs, who might as well be the politics version of geocentrists.
something that's basically always true