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Which is your favorite currently alive Marxist-Leninist author and your favorites book from them? (lemmygrad.ml)
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[–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Blackshirts and the Reds (obvi), To Kill A Nation (recent history of the destruction of Yugoslavia, a lot of parallels to Ukraine), Inventing Realities (I’ve heard it’s like Manufacturing Consent, but better), and Against Empire. There are probably other good ones that I don’t know much about. I wasn’t much interested by The Assassination of Julius Ceasar, but if you’re into Roman history it’s probably good.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Inventing realities felt to me like 2 books in 1, with a very simple but well developed analysis of propaganda as part 1 and the last chapter with part 2 being the 200 pages of just gut wrenching examples of propaganda to support found between. I thought beforehand that it'd feel like there were many theses being developed, but it just hits hard then piles on support. Not a bad thing, but I found it interestingly written

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Manufacturing consent is similar, but I’m sure Parenti is better than Chomsky.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Yeah I've read both and like parentis more. But I found Chomsky's a bit more "academic" is structure, while parentis felt that unique way I tried to describe. Might also come from the times I read them (Chomsky long ago as a young lib and parenti while I was already a communist)

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