Honestly Parenti leaves himself wide open to this kind of criticism in BS&R. It is poorly cited, especially the first chapter, and he does make specious claims that are hard to verify.
I love :parenti: don't get me wrong and the text does have a particular kind of rhetorical value, but if leftists uphold BS&R as some sort of standalone own of the Western hegemonic perspective we leave ourselves pretty open for being discredited as not serious.
Honestly Parenti leaves himself wide open to this kind of criticism in BS&R. It is poorly cited, especially the first chapter, and he does make specious claims that are hard to verify.
I love :parenti: don't get me wrong and the text does have a particular kind of rhetorical value, but if leftists uphold BS&R as some sort of standalone own of the Western hegemonic perspective we leave ourselves pretty open for being discredited as not serious.
I've always taken BS&R to be a polemic more than one of his more serious works. It's why I probably like it the most.