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24 July 2017 - 06:02 PM
Michael Parenti's "The Anti-Communist Impulse"
It's hard to imagine it now, but since this book was written in the early seventies, when there was an ideological split between the global ruling powers -- an equalizer to an American imperialism which today goes unaccounted for (the absence of such a geopolitical pressure now giving them free reign in expansionism and genocide abroad, "austerity" at home) -- as such, the manner in which he talks about these opposing forces is discussed so casually (Soviet Union, revolutionary China, Vietnam, GDR, etc), that it's rather refreshing to see compared to contemporary (pre-revolutionary) socialist discourse and analytical methods.
In between, I'm also reading some of Brecht's plays:
Check this out to understand Brechtian/epic theater:
tGhlmMtBiJY
It's hard to imagine it now, but since this book was written in the early seventies, when there was an ideological split between the global ruling powers -- an equalizer to an American imperialism which today goes unaccounted for (the absence of such a geopolitical pressure now giving them free reign in expansionism and genocide abroad, "austerity" at home) -- as such, the manner in which he talks about these opposing forces is discussed so casually (Soviet Union, revolutionary China, Vietnam, GDR, etc), that it's rather refreshing to see compared to contemporary (pre-revolutionary) socialist discourse and analytical methods.
In between, I'm also reading some of Brecht's plays:
Check this out to understand Brechtian/epic theater:
tGhlmMtBiJY
