[Marxism] Re.: "Blackshirts and Reds..."

[Chris Brady <cdbrady@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You?re quite right, Mark.  I should?ve modified that phrase ?popular
history? so it included more of the notion I wrote that it should by
definition, e.g., class consciousness, etc., and thus set it apart from
the mainstream, mass-marketed brand of histories.

Comrade Carlos, by additive I suggest that we could build on the work of
our fellow reds rather than bust them.  I accept Marx?s credo of
criticism, but I also understand Fidel?s maxim about revolution: in/for
always, outside/against never.  We might  familiarize ourselves with the
audience Michael Parenti endeavors to reach.  They are non-specialists.
They do not know what fascism is in the general sense, let alone its
categorical distinctions.  To denounce Parenti?s work as lazy because it
doesn?t delve deeply into the mutually discrete characteristics of
Falangists, Fascists, Black Arrow, Nazis and SLORC is rather besides the
point.  It?s like the difference between an introductory lecture for a
general audience and an advanced course of study for specialists.  Note
the size of the text: it is a fairly slim, user-friendly,
non-intimidiating  pocketbook.  The benefit of Parenti?s work can be
found in its properties as an antidote to the pervasive red-baiting with
which US hegemony inundates its young people.  The benefit of your work
is to build on this groundwork and take it to a higher power of
scrutiny.  Both have revolutionary utility.