![]() The first chapter was useful in distinguishing right from left totalitarianism, a distinction that moderates love to erase and whose erasure ultimately serves fascism. The book is called Blackshirts and Reds but he only deals with fascists in the first chapter – the rest is devoted purely to the Reds, so it’s quite a misnomer. I subtracted a star for this egregious flaw in what should have been a relatively straightforward academic work. I’m not arguing that he made them up, but I also cannot with integrity repeat claims without knowing how an author came by them, so this was frustrating. ![]() ![]() A glaring defect of the entire book is the virtual absence of citations for any of Parenti’s factual claims. About 1/3 of it contained arguments that were novel to me, and the rest was an accessible and compelling rehash of things I already knew. ![]()
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