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.
>>2662580Parenti dying before Chomsky is proof that there's no god.
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Huge influence on me
Yellow parenti is legendary
rest in power king
God damn, I literally just googled him, read he was born in 1933 and said. "Damn, he is old, it's going to be sad when it happens"
>>2662590Chomsky is low energy compared to parenti, if you compare how they speak, Chomsky literally just perma chilling out, guess that's his secret.
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>>2662627Well it makes sense a libertarian would be a nonce
Rip my guy.
From everything I have heard or read by him, my impression is he never tried to have a creative take on things over a truthful one or to impress anyone by comparing something with an obscure reference point instead of a commonly understood one.
Something to emulate.
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>>2662580RIP COMRADE
you will not be forgotten
Ruhe in Frieden Großer
just today I was thinking about yellow Parenti because I saw that Reagan video
sad
what is THE one book of his I need to read
>>2662747Do yourself a favor and read Marx instead. I'm sure he'll appreciate it regardless.
>>2662747Democracy for the Few and Inventing Reality.
>>2662729>defending Gorbachev Got to cut Parenti some slack on this one. The rhetoric of Gorby would have confused many well meaning advocates of peace and change, even though it was pure revisionism.
And we all have the benefit of hindsight, with all the information, and memoirs, that has come out of the fallout.
>>2662747Blackshirts and reds
>>2662646Assata didn’t get a sticky so why should Parenti?
(USER WAS BURIED UNDERNEATH MICHAEL PARENTI) Only good falsifier. RIP.
RIP king, such an important mind to many.
Who do we have left at this point? Parenti suffered from cognitive decline at the end of his life so his death doesn't really change that much, as tragic as it is. All /ourguys/ are old geezers.
>>2662819Or I guess rather who are we gonna be left with in say five to ten years.
>>2662819The deprogram boys carry on his legacy in the digital age
>>2662819>Who do we have left at this point? Michael Hudson
>>2662824Sure, but they're podcasters and youtubers, not brilliant minds like Parenti, Wolff or Finkelstein to name a few off the top of my head.
>>2662829Who else is there? Zizek? I don’t think so
If you die of old age in Amerikkka, the heart of the empire, the 4th Reich, you're not a communist. Simple as.
Parenti was social fascist who dick ride gorbachev and called Communist China poor and neoliberal
<China boasts a dazzling 8 percent economic growth rate and is emerging as one of the world’s greatest industrial powers. But with economic growth has come an ever deepening gulf between rich and poor. Most Chinese live close to the poverty level or well under it, while a small group of newly brooded capitalists profit hugely in collusion with shady officials. Regional bureaucrats milk the country dry, extorting graft from the populace and looting local treasuries. Land grabbing in cities and countryside by avaricious developers and corrupt officials at the expense of the populace are almost everyday occurrences. Tens of thousands of grassroot protests and disturbances have erupted across the country, usually to be met with unforgiving police force. Corruption is so prevalent, reaching into so many places, that even the normally complacent national leadership was forced to take notice and began moving against it in late 2006.Workers in China who try to organize labor unions in the corporate dominated “business zones” risk losing their jobs or getting beaten and imprisoned. Millions of business zone workers toil twelve-hour days at subsistence wages. With the health care system now being privatized, free or affordable medical treatment is no longer available for millions. Men have tramped into the cities in search of work, leaving an increasingly impoverished countryside populated by women, children, and the elderly. The suicide rate has increased dramatically, especially among women.
>>2662840gotta admire your commitment to the bit
>>2662826Michael hudson is a trotskyite. His family were trotskyites. Michael hudson is not marxist. Michael husdson is revisionist trotskyite.
Michael Hudson is imperialist.
https://michael-hudson.com/2024/07/nato-focus-from-defensive-to-offensive/>MICHAEL HUDSON: You make two very important points. First of all, NATO began as a defensive alliance against the Soviet Union.Michael Hudson is stupid amerikan pig who fail to grasp the nature of sino split from social fascism
https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2025/08/10/corporate-landlords-rent-michael-hudson/>MICHAEL HUDSON: Well, Arrighi’s big point is quite correct, but his title for it, Adam Smith in Beijing, is very unfortunate.What actually happened was, in the late 1970s, the Chinese decided, we don’t want our kind of socialism to be what Stalinism had in Russia. RIP my old guy. Have to admit I haven't read Parenti in some years now, but he was a gateway author like Zizek, Wolff, etc back in the old /leftypol/ days. Will give his works a new try this week
>>2662835Like most I've also soured on Zizek over the past decade, so no. Someone above's already mentioned Hudson. There's Michael Roberts whom I'm sure people on here read, Cockshott has been popular on here for years, Anwar Shaikh (though I only know of him via Roberts and Cockshott), you can throw David Harvey in there if you want plus the others I've mentioned.
You can probably fill the list with more literally whos, my point is they're all old. Who are the promising young minds (young here being below retirement age) who will carry on the torch of Marxism?
>>2662747Democracy for the few
God and his Demons
He wrote a book on Julius Caesar but I haven't read it.
>>2662729He defended Gorbachev in what context? When Gorby rose to power he did look like the type of young modernizer leader the soviets needed, early perestroika even had some mild successes.
>>2662789Wrong. Communist China set the clear line very loudly. There is no excuse for social fascism
>>2662819Vijay Prashad.
Also RIP to Parenti, a real one.
Any word on the funeral?
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>>2662886Ceasar books is pretty relavent and you could its a labour of love
>>2663157I might go if i can tbh
>>2663157Funerals are bourgeois.
RIP to a real one
>>2662898The USSR was not "social fascist". That was mere ultra left sloganeering by China, and Hoxha. It was not an objective analysis on the USSR.
HISTORY IS ABSOLVING HIM AS WE SPEAK
>>2663373Even when I was an anarchist I couldn't stand Badmouse
>>2662580His texts are complete garbage, lol.
>political scientistWell that explains so much.
>>2662580WE'LL MISS YOU KING!!!!
>>2662835There's Soren Mau, but he's pretty aggressively "western" left.
>>2662819>Who do we have left at this point?why do you losers even need dumbass academics to form parasocial relationships with
Ive never heard of him before, was he based?
Reminder! Ceaser was a proletarian hero
>>2663559He was like a current welfare state ML aesthetic fan but in the Reagan era, so he had balls at least.
I like him a lot but his Serbia/Milosevic stuff was a bit weird. I think if you've been a public figure criticizing US imperialism for decades you get one genocide-apologia-pass. It happens. I don't really hold the Khmer Rouge stuff against Chomsky either lol.
And it's interesting that pro-China MLs love him so much despite him saying China is capitalist etc (iirc).
I gotta read his books
>>2664025>And it's interesting that pro-China MLs love him so much despite him saying China is capitalistIf they knew how to read they would hate him
>>2664045China itself says it is capitalist so I don't know why dengoids are surprised
>>2662840Bruh, you can't pretend to hate Pizza man and love Deng lmao. Deng just wasn't a retard and didn't let the authority of the party be destroyed.
>>2664071They hate Khrushchev for being a revisionist but suck off Deng, it's totally incoherent
>>2664071>>2664080Wrong. Deng consolidated the modern Communist system and eliminated the bourgeoisie as a class. Deng not revisionist
>>2662580Rest in peace, Comrade. May your passion filled words and yellow imagery be remembered forever.
RIP to the GOAT. Not often that you have a genuine comrade like him.
>>2663799that is the most graceful way of shitting on idpol I have ever seen. Amazing.
RIP
>>2662580>academic in denial who downplayed the mass rape and killings of the bosnian genocidepeople that dont care for genocide denial and rape apologia wont miss him thats for sure
>>2665987>the bosnian genocideSrebrenica was a war crime, but it wasn't genocide. They rounded up all the men of fighting age and summarily executed them. Horrific thing to do, yes. War crime, yes. But it wasn't genocide. Not every killing is a genocide. But what can one expect in the current sociopolitical landscape where China deradicalising violent Islamist terrorist and giving them vocational skills is considered genocide.
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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