Perhaps, but "Blackshirts and Reds" is a book that explicitly defends the USSR, there is a pretty large gap between it and Chomsky's more popular books.
I mean it helps that parenti spends the first chapter dunking the fuck out of the fascists and the capitalists.
And when you got some really juicy stuff like that as your opening salvo, people are gonna be more willing to dig into your stuff, especially when your work actually has a nuanced as fuck opinion on stuff you never read about in H.S.
Perhaps, but "Blackshirts and Reds" is a book that explicitly defends the USSR, there is a pretty large gap between it and Chomsky's more popular books.
I mean it helps that parenti spends the first chapter dunking the fuck out of the fascists and the capitalists.
And when you got some really juicy stuff like that as your opening salvo, people are gonna be more willing to dig into your stuff, especially when your work actually has a nuanced as fuck opinion on stuff you never read about in H.S.