How Fascism Serves Capitalism | FULL DOCUMENTARY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn_RwIcL7cg&ab_channel=NonCompete

In this #documentary, Dr. #MichaelParenti defines #fascism, describes its characteristics, and explains the #role fascism plays in serving the rational #interests of #capitalists while suppressing #communism and other organized #workermovements.

first time covid + no computer access = time to dust off my one million book backlog. this one is short n sweet. #michaelparenti #culturewars https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/708953

Just some Cool and Normal China headlines from the Washington Post today.

#WashingtonPost #InventingReality #Parenti #MichaelParenti #capitalism #socialism #communism #China

Really? That's all we've got? It "could collect communications signals"? That's one way to say "it had an antenna," I guess.

I swear to fucking god I'm living in a god damn clown world.

#InventingReality #Parenti #MichaelParenti #China #nyt #NewYorkTimes

Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

Below: A reading and commentary by #Socialism4All of #MichaelParenti's seminal 1997 book on the battles between Communism & Fascism.

Back of the book: Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: #fascism, #capitalism, #communism, #revolution, #democracy, and #ecology—terms often bandied about but seldom explored in the original and exciting way that has become Parenti’s trademark.

https://youtu.be/PxLKO_R5RmA

Working through Michael Parenti's Democracy for the Few right now. Got to this passage in chapter five, and was intrigued by the examples given for government intervention on behalf of the interests of the ruling class against the working class. Lo and behold, the robber baron rail bosses have always been huge pieces of shit, and #Biden is well and truly in absolutely atrocious company.

#socialism #communism #marxism #capitalism #RailStrike #politics #uspol #MichaelParenti #Parenti #DemocracyForTheFew

Whenever nihilism creeps in, the legendary yellow parenti lecture never fails to put the fire back in my belly.

#MichaelParenti #Communism #Hope #Socialism

Whenever nihilism creeps in, the legendary yellow parenti lecture never fails to put the fire back in my belly.

#MichaelParenti #1986 #Communism #Hope #Socialism

Oh look. It's "socialist" Biden begging Congress to bust up a union strike. What a friend of labour! (don't laugh!)

Notice how it's not described as a "class struggle," or as a "dispute between business and labor," but as a "labor dispute," as if the workers were the ones causing the problem. Also notice how nothing substantive about the dispute has made it into this "summary" of otherwise "breaking news." The reader is left to wonder just why those dastardly union workers want to cosplay as The Grinch and steal Christmas.

Parenti documented, decades ago, how the mass media covered union activity, in his book Inventing Reality, even pulling timely examples from this very institution (The New York Times) IIRC. The playbook hasn't changed.

#nyt #NewYorkTimes #socialism #communism #union #unions #TradeUnionism #marxism #capitalism #Parenti #MichaelParenti #InventingReality

Michael Parenti: "The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps for the many. The glittering mansion overlooks a vast sprawl of shanty towns, wherein a desperate, demoralized humanity is kept in line with drugs, television, and armed force." ― Against Empire #Capitalism #Inequality #MichaelParenti #MichaelParentiQuotes #Quote