A Revolutionary Reading List - Audiobooks: Recent Episodes
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Today we will be reading, the final chapter of Blackshirts and Reds by the amazing Dr Michael Parenti. 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.
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This is a brilliant work of literary criticism that essentially becomes political science. Culture and Imperialism demonstrates that Western imperialism's most effective tools for dominating other cultures have been literary in nature as much as political and economic. He traces the themes of 19th- and 20th-century Western fiction and contemporary mass media as weapons of conquest and also brilliantly analyzes the rise of oppositional indigenous voices in the literatures of the "colonies." Said would argue that it's no mere coincidence that it was a Victorian Englishman, Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton, who coined the phrase "the pen is mightier . . ." Very highly recommended for anyone who wants to understand how cultures are dominated by words, as well as how cultures can be liberated by resuscitating old voices or creating new voices for new times.
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Brilliantly structured and detailed, Rodney paints a vivid picture of pre-colonial Africa from a cultural, political and economic perspective, with an emphasis on the pre-capitalist economic structures that existed, followed by the arrival of Europeans and the absolute horror than ensued. If you're interested in anti-racist literature, this will give you some much needed context for how the world works and why it got that way.
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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa is a 1972 book written by Walter Rodney that describes how Africa was deliberately exploited and underdeveloped by European colonial regimes. One of his main arguments throughout the book is that Africa developed Europe at the same rate that Europe underdeveloped Africa.
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The State and Revolution (1917) is a book by Vladimir Lenin describing the role of the state in society, the necessity of proletarian revolution, and the theoretic inadequacies of social democracy in achieving revolution to establish the dictatorship of the proletariat.
Lenin wrote The State and Revolution in August and September 1917, when he was in hiding from persecution of the Provisional Government. The need for such a theoretical work as this was mentioned by Lenin in the second half of 1916. It was then that he wrote his note on "The Youth International", in which he criticised Bukharin's position on the question of the state and promised to write a detailed article on what he thought to be the Marxist attitude to the state. In a letter to A. M. Kollontai on February 17 (N.S.), 1917, he said that he had almost got ready material on that question . This material was written in a small blue-covered notebook headed "Marxism on the State". In it Lenin had collected quotations from the works of Marx and Engels, and extracts from the books by Kautsky, Pannekoek and Bernstein with his own critical notes, conclusions and generalisations.
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Today we'll be reading Guerrilla Warfare, by the face of the revoution, Ernesto "Che" Guevara. Guerrilla Warfare provides great insight into how the the Marxist-Lenin model of revolution works. The book does not require too much knowledge of the historical context in the 1960 to read, although this does help.
Read the PDF version at: che.pdf (marxists.org)
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Today we will be reading, Blackshirts and Reds by the amazing Dr Michael Parenti. 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 empowerment against the forces of exploitative privilege. He also maps out the external and internal forces that destroyed communism, and the disastrous impact of the "free-market" victory on eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. He affirms the relevance of taboo ideologies like Marxism, demonstrating the importance of class analysis in understanding political realities and dealing with the ongoing collision between ecology and global corporatism.
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Today we will be reading, Blackshirts and Reds by the amazing Dr Michael Parenti. 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 empowerment against the forces of exploitative privilege. He also maps out the external and internal forces that destroyed communism, and the disastrous impact of the "free-market" victory on eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. He affirms the relevance of taboo ideologies like Marxism, demonstrating the importance of class analysis in understanding political realities and dealing with the ongoing collision between ecology and global corporatism.
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A lecture by Dr. Michael Parenti on the conservative understanding of human nature and how it only serves to defend suffering under the current system.
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This is a talk Dr Michael Parenti gave to talk about his recently released book at the time, Face of Imperialism. I wonderful talk that addresses the class and systematic elements on imperialism, as well as how it functions today. This audio is split between Dr Parenti's talk during the first 30 minutes, and a Q&A sections at the end.
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A Reading of the book "The Hundred Years' War on Palestine" by the Palestinian historian Rashid Khalidi. A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history.
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A reading of the book "The People's Republic of Walmart", by the political journalist Leigh Phillips and economist union researcher Michał Rozworski. The book talks about the strange success of large mutli-national corportion due to their centrally planned organisation. A contradiction to the free market capitalist perspective that see fit for the market to allocate all needs.
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