#parenti

[kseenefrega]

Cena a casa di mia sorella. Tra una portata e l'altra, parte l'immancabile coro dei parenti: "Ma tu, a quarant'anni e fischia, quando hai intenzione di metterti la testa a posto?"

Guardi il piatto, guardi loro, e pensi che "a posto" è un concetto decisamente relativo. Tipo i mobili dell'IKEA: sembrano stabili finché non provi a spostarli. Io la testa ce l'ho esattamente dove deve stare: sul collo, pronta a girarsi dall'altra parte quando partono queste domande...

Passatemi il vino, va'. Che per sopportare la stabilità altrui serve una discreta dose di squilibrio. 🍷😜

[iamtheweirdomister]

[siddhartha-returned]

unfortunately, my copy of against empire got lost in transit but thankfully this barnes had black shirts & red😄

[the-inevitable-minor-fires]

[positiveaien]

Based on what I have seen, Michael Parenti (RIP) seems to attract the more conspiratiorially minded among students who have seen the goings-on of US American foreign policy and the US government and do not yet fully understand why it operates the way it does. It's partly correct, making some interesting materialist observations, but it does regularly swerve into the road of idealism. Class is also mentioned very much in passing, instead focusing on modern historical development along "left vs. right" lines. I have seen anarchists use the word "class" more often. Critically, he never really provided an answer as to what to do, which is his greatest flaw, I would argue.

[the-blog-for-tax-purposes]

Michael Parenti, Blackshirts & Reds: Rational Fascism and The Overthrew of Communism. City Lights Books, 1997. 129.

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There absolutely has to be (Tiqqun, Culp, Debord, Colebrook, Deleuze & Guattari, Foucault comr to mind) a line of critical inquiry about the ways this libidinal economy is a feature of some "Public" and Society of the Spectacle and how this problem somewhat escapes a base/superstructure problem (though perhaps I'm just immortalizing my novice thoughts here in an embarrassing way).

RIP Parenti

[vermilliongrey]

[gar-feels]

:(

Parenti has died. May he rest in peace, he introduced me and many others to Marxism-Leninism and Historical Materialism.

I highly recommend his books if you haven't read them already, "Blackshirts and Reds" was my first and it changed my view on politics and history in general (as someone who was new to Marxism). Check out his lectures too, despite how old they are they still ring true and much like his books are very accessible.