He lived to the point where hundreds of thousands of people in the most deeply propagandized country in the world are organized enough to go on strike together stand against domestic repression unseen since at least the Nixon era, if not earlier. He made it long enough for people even here to develop class solidarity en masse, organized largely by socialist organizations with plenty of members radicalized by his works. Call me overly bloomerist if you want, but I think he left a legacy he could be proud of
I listened to Yellow Parenti, then as many of his talks as I could on the Parenti archive. Then read Black Shirts and Reds. He really was my pipeline to becoming a Marxist.
Genuinely one of the greats. Sad he couldn’t have retired into a socialist world. Sadder he didn’t live to see us free.
Yellow Parenti is still as relevant as when he delivered it 40 years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP8CzlFhc14
He lived to the point where hundreds of thousands of people in the most deeply propagandized country in the world are organized enough to go on strike together stand against domestic repression unseen since at least the Nixon era, if not earlier. He made it long enough for people even here to develop class solidarity en masse, organized largely by socialist organizations with plenty of members radicalized by his works. Call me overly bloomerist if you want, but I think he left a legacy he could be proud of
I needed that bloomerist of a comment to cheer me up a bit. Thank you
Thanks for the optimism
I listened to Yellow Parenti, then as many of his talks as I could on the Parenti archive. Then read Black Shirts and Reds. He really was my pipeline to becoming a Marxist.
Still gets me as angry as it did the first time I saw it. It’s a good kind of anger though, the kind that reminds you to keep pushing
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: