Blackshirts and Reds
Michael Parenti
Non-Fiction / History
Blackshirts and Reds
by Michael Parenti
—· 165 p· 1997
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Overview
About
A bold and entertaining exploration of the epic struggles of yesterday and today.
Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, revolution, democracy, and ecology. These terms are often bandied about, but seldom explored in the original and exciting way that has become Michael Parenti's trademark.
Parenti shows how "rational fascism" renders service to capitalism, how corporate power undermines democracy, and how revolutions are a mass empowerm…
Pages
165
City Lights Publishers
Linguistic complexity
4/5
Complex
Thematic complexity
4/5
Rich
Rating
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Reader feel
Political Analysis10
Historical Synthesis9
Prose8
Narration8
Pacing7
Worldbuilding5
Emotional depth5
Plot twists3
My journey
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