


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. 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. Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, revolution, democracy, and ecologyterms often bandied about but seldom explored in the original and exciting way that has become Michael Parenti’s trademark.
