https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/2015101898878021873"Michael Parenti, the path-breaking Marxist scholar, historian and political scientist, passed today at age 92
He went peacefully this morning, surrounded by his family
“Now he is in what he used to refer to as ‘the great lecture hall in the sky,’” his son, Christian, reflected"
Rest in Power to a monumental american Marxist. could have taken the path of a chomsky but chose to oppose U.S. Empire totally his whole life.
83 posts and 9 image replies omitted.Any word on when the funeral will be?
>>2662819Alain Badiou is still alive but he's almost 90.
Zizek
>>2666084Both are compatible leftists polluted by nietzschean thought
Hasn't this guy been braindead for like a decade at least? I remember years ago some post about some leftists that went to visit him but he was totally mentally gone.
You think he was aware enough to know about the military strike in venezuela? I hope not.
>>2666049I like Parenti but I don't think this is untrue
>>2662857So what? He is one of the forerunners when it comes to understanding that modern capitalism is finance capitalism.
https://michael-hudson.com/1998/09/financial-capitalism-v-industrial-capitalism/There is very shallow modern anaysis of capitalism today.
>>2666624There's this book you might have not heard of it, it's called capital vol 3
>>2666812No one in that picture believed in Heaven
fucking hate ai slop so much
fucking love ai art so much
>>2663382im pretty dumb, what are you referring to specifically? I don't know this guy that well
>>2666084none of those are marxists
>>2663934based, fuck the s*nate
>>2666889to parenti. he was sometimes denounced as a tankie etc. "History will absolve me" is a Fidel quote. and what's going on in the world rn is absolving parenti (and fidel again). tankies were right, as always.
>>2662893You are thinking of "acceleration", which preceded perestroika, not perestroika itself (late 87 onwards).
>>2666819Doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
>>2663382Yes, China is still capitalist
>"Capitalist restoration in the former communist countries has taken different forms. In Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, it involved the overthrow of communist governments. In China, it proceeded within the framework of a communist system — as seems to be happening in Vietnam, and perhaps will eventually happen in North Korea and Cuba. While the Chinese government continues under a nominally communist leadership, the process of private capital penetration goes on more or less unhindered." (p.87, Blackshirts & Reds) >>2667448one thing i know about Parenti is he would be siding with Palestine, Iran, China and Russia against the empire and would have nothing but contempt for both-sidists.
>>2667547Was he chill with the Taliban?
>>2667448Wrong. The socialist transformation of private ownership of the means of production has been completed, the system of exploitation of man by man abolished, and a socialist system established. The exploiting class, as a class, has been eliminated.
>>2667701No. Parenti is a social fascist dicksucker. He slanders Taliban like bush
https://www.michael-parenti.org/article-afghanistan-another-untold-story May he rest in peace.
>>2668214Glad Jimmy has come to terms with being a hitlerite lib nowadays
>>2662580>Now he is in what he used to refer to as ‘the great lecture hall in the sky'Why does this read like the old ED article on Chris Chan when her dad died?
>Robert Franklin Chandler Jr., Chris' father and Internet Lumberjack, died and went to that Great Klan Rally in the Sky. Another fag gone, Chomsky next
>>2668808How is Chomsky still alive? I thought he died years ago
>>2669516Epstein helped him with his finances. he probably got him some secret life extension treatments in the past.
Rip to a real one
>>2662840remember this anon is quoting "Friendly Feudalism: The Tibet Myth" A text from the early 2000s where Parenti is pushing back on the liberal "Free Tibet" stuff and the idea that the Dalai Lama should be in charge of Tibet instead of the PRC. It's literally a text dedicated to defending the PRC's liberation of tibet. This anon is so mad that Parenti couldn't predict the long term payoff of Reform and Opening Up under Deng Xiaoping that he entirely misses the point of what the text is about.
>>2670042>It's literally a text dedicated to defending the PRC's liberation of tibet. This anon is so mad that Parenti couldn't predict the long term payoff of Reform and Opening Up under Deng Xiaoping that he entirely misses the point of what the text is about.Your incorrectness is multifaceted. Parenti said China was colonizing Xizang.
>In the 1990s, the Han, the ethnic group comprising over 95 percent of China’s immense population, began moving in substantial numbers into Tibet. On the streets of Lhasa and Shigatse, signs of Han colonization are readily visible. Chinese run the factories and many of the shops and vending stalls. Tall office buildings and large shopping centers have been built with funds that might have been better spent on water treatment plants and housing. Chinese cadres in Tibet too often view their Tibetan neighbors as backward and lazy, in need of economic development and “patriotic education.” During the 1990s Tibetan government employees suspected of harboring nationalist sympathies were purged from office, and campaigns were once again launched to discredit the Dalai Lama. Individual Tibetans reportedly were subjected to arrest, imprisonment, and forced labor for carrying out separatist activities and engaging in “political subversion.” Some were held in administrative detention without adequate food, water, and blankets, subjected to threats, beatings, and other mistreatment. Parenti cited westoid propaganda to call China poor nearly decade after China's living standard surpassed that of imperialists.
The function of
https://redsails.org/friendly-feudalism/ is clear. Parenti always calls it "tibet," never proper name of Xizang. Parent is clearly imperialist
>>2670213Parenti is the one who glows. He says "tibet" instead of Xizang.
>>2670055How does it feel to be a western dengo-maoist when all Chinese Maoists call China capitalist, if not imperialist?
>>2670277Chinese ultroid maoists should be never listened after all the damage they have done.
1 Michael Parenti > 1,000 leftcoms
RIP to a Real one
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