Blackshirts and Reds is a MANDATORY reading for any leftist in the core. US nerds especially I don't care if you're a maoist or anarchist or a secret third thing you literally can not form a complete understanding of leftist geopolitics without the information in it.

pure projection

Parenti doesnt miss. It's a fantastic book. I'm reading his work 'Inventing Reality' now and it's great too.

B&R made a good baseline for my studies going forward. Since he largely used Western corp media sources to make his points some of the further stuff I've learned has been worse, some has been slightly better. But it definitely helped clear out 'the not a lib, but still anti-communist' out of my skull.

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I also cried after reading Blackshirts and Reds. I’m not sure if this came from B&R but I saw a statistic about how a few weeks after the illegal dissolution of the USSR there were children as young as 10 selling their bodies on the streets of Moscow and I cried for like a fucking hour while also being angrier than I’ve ever been before. The collapse truly one of the greatest humanitarian disasters in the modern era.

Depressing song to go with the depressing book.

https://youtu.be/6VqiMQoMXmw