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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

in the afterlife, there are no technical issues with the audio or video equipment.

rest in peace Michael Parenti, you will be missed but your contributions continue to enlighten people every day

I don't think it can be understated how important this dude has been to the western left.

The tens of thousands of marxists he created will now have to work twice as hard collectively just to be as powerful as he was all by himself. He's earned his rest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7OXhF6zG8o&list=PL0-IkmzWbjoak57jcXDh1rY4n7Ic-EVsE x

Rest in peace.

Link to Blackshirts and Reds audiobook by Parenti: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7OXhF6zG8o&list=PL0-IkmzWbjoak57jcXDh1rY4n7Ic-EVsE

Damn. Glad he lived a nice long life, rest in peace

Rest in power. He was a brilliant writer.

During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime's atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn't go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them.

If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.

-Michael Parenti

One of the best to do ever do it.

this one hurts

I'm glad he got to live a nice long life, I hope he rests easy now

“Now he is in what he used to refer to as ‘the great lecture hall in the sky,’” his son, Christian, reflected

Rest in peace, comrade. You were vital in my growth into a Marxist, and it cannot be overstated how many people you've made into communists. May we carry on your legacy!

"Yellow Parenti" Speech and Blackshirts and Reds | Audiobook

Yellow_parenti1986.avi Rest in power

critical shout out to Choking Victim (stza bad) for sampling Parenti's rants and spreading them to the punk scene

Portrait should be yellow and grainy as a sign of respect

Damn 92, that's a full life

Sucks to hear but you can't complain about 92, and his dementia was quite bad too so I'm sure it was his time.

Meanwhile Chomsky lives on. Pedo blood magyk.

RIP to a fucking real one o7

I'm off to reread Blackshirts and Reds, after having to listen to some lib today, prattle on about how supposedly undemocratic the USSR was.

Rest in peace. If it wasn't for him, I probably wouldn't have made my way out of the dark reactionary hell hole that I was in as a lost teenager during 2015-2016. Fly high, you deserve it

Rest in power. Quite probably the most important, impactful Marxist in the west post 90s. His words changed many lives. His words changed my life. May we live to see another speaker who can communicate as he can in the English world soon.

For all the kind words in this thread, I think there's one quality of his that is quite underappreciated.

His charisma. Go back and watch his old lectures, he is such a calm and cool speaker - who could get fired up or shoot a biting comment from the hip whenever it was needed.

Just completely in his element in public speaking - if it weren't such a waste of time to become a politician (in his own words), he could have certainly gone far. I would've loved to have seen him go up against some of the public figures around today - though I'm sure in years preceding his old age he was probably already blacklisted from most media outlets.

A final rest for a great soul

a great loss

Worst news to wake up to

Goodbye , you'll live on in poorly color-corrected lectures and the heart of your family.

A death like this is sad, but there's also positive. Advanced dementia is not a pretty thing. A lot of times I roll my eyes at people calling death peace, but cases like this, where the mind goes, it really can be a true reprieve.

Better to celebrate his life, and be glad in it.

RIPower. I can see how his shift would be over right about now.

rip to a real one

The passion and anger he had during his speeches has never been matched. What a legend and a hero

Listened to him just yesterday again.

Thank you Mr Parenti for being a true light in the darkness. You were such a great guide for a lib like me. I wish I had found your work a lot earlier in life, it changed everything.

RIP

RIP to a real one. Damn.

RIP

May the world one day become the one you, and so many of us, want to see.

Damn. RIP comrade Parenti. He's vising with Marx rn.

RIP KING

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goodnight sweet prince

memory eternal

He lived in power so he could rest in peace.