@shortywheat - Typical inexperienced twenty-something with who thinks he knows something about the real world, but has to resort to 'straw man' tactics because he has no real facts to back up his flawed argument... Your understanding of economics, or more precisely, your lack thereof, is abundantly clear. You, like all of you brainwashed statists, just keep trying to blame the failures of our current Keynesian system on the "free market" that doesn't exist, and see where that gets you...
You supporters of Parenti need to learn the meaning of words, and so does Parenti. What Parenti calls capitalism, is actually corporatism. What he calls a free market, is actually a regulated market. The capitalist free market can't be at fault where it doesn't exist. Try studying Keynesian v. Austrian economic theory, then maybe you can get your facts straight.
@MrJimmyMad To be more specific, it exists as a concept, but it is not the economic system under which we live. We have a MIXED ECONOMY (Look it up), in which the unconstitutional Federal Reserve private banking cartel has been granted BY THE STATE exclusive rights to interfere with the natural market dynamics of the FREE MARKET and unfairly REGULATE in favor of its corporate shareholders. Under such an unfairly regulated market, capitalism ceases to function and CORPORATISM results.
5:55 -spot on. I marvel at how American rightwingers (who often fail to realize the views they espouse *are* very RW) desperately try to align socialism & the Left with fascism. Little wonder this dying empire is where it's at given how such a significant portion of its citizenry doesn't understand basic political/ideological philosophies ...and really, that's been strategic here; RW talking points are common within the culture, absent being accurately identified as such for what they represent.
The Face of Imperialism is a powerful, frightening, and honest book. It will be hated by those who run the Empire, and it will be loved by people who are searching for truth amidst the piles of garbage of Western propaganda. Above all, this book will be like a bright spark of hope for billions of men, women, and children who are fighting this very moment for survival, defending themselves against the Empire and against all monstrous faces and masks of imperialism."
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Fascism, communism, socialism and imperialism; in reality, all are the same ideology fueled by different flavors of corporatism, suppressing the rights of the individual over the needs of the state, promoting nation over human.
True. When Goebbels the nazi propaganda minister, before the nazis took power, said the socialism of nazi and internazi was the same, violent factional fighting ensued. He never said that again, but it remained true and that explains the fighting--Lenin's people laid claim to that same, shared thing, socialism! Lenin and Hitler had fan clubs, or maybe I should say Lenin's people rejected a cult of personality!?!?! Sure, OK, but both factions laid claim to "socialism".
Sorry I misread you somewhat. Yes, I have noticed that Soviet communism resembled an idealized 19th century monolithic monopoly corporatism, a corporatism without capitalism. Capital came in from Fels, Warburg, Whitney, later Hammer, Rockefeller, and western loans. I have a post-WW2 loan application from Ferent Nagy et al appealing for western capitalism to finance ag until ag surplus could fund industrialization i.e. corporatism, 19th century monopolies like earlier king's charter monopolies.
Jonah Goldberg's book is a seriously confused book with the oxymoronic title Liberal Fascists in which he claims Hitler was a socialist. This claim, among many others he makes in the book, is so outrageous it doesnt even warrant a response. The book is a philosophical and historical absurdity and Goldberg is totally ignorant in both subjects.
Goebbels, prior to nazis taking power, did say nazis and internazis shared a socialist aspect. Lenin's socialists became violent and Goebbels stopped saying that because he had simply been trying to persuade the middle class not engage physically with labor and poor and underclass organized under Lenin which clash would not serve Goebbel's process of intellectual persuasion.
Parenti pre-debunked Mr. Goldberg's "research" that Tom Wolfe wrote advance praise for. This text on which this talk is based is in a book called "Blackshirts and Reds," which is a better documented but similarly controversial book to Mr. Goldberg.
Parenti's discussion about fascism in opposition to Trade Unions, Labor Parties and other Working Class Political Organizations, closely parallels what George Orwell described in his writings about The Spanish Civil War.
The Spanish Capitalists saw their chance of crushing the Labor Movement, and took it, aided by the Nazis and the forces of reaction all over the world, the Spanish workers lost and the dividend-drawers all over the world rubbed their hands together.$.$.$!
The nazis claimed the right to suppress independent labor organization on the basis of their counterfeit socialism, totally subservient to a militarist state. Under utopian aura of folk religion in the service of xenophobia, and beneficent paternalism with labor as little brother no longer struggling due to enfranchisement in token ways in Hitler's patriarchy fronting for corporate trojans of oligarchy. Little bro labor, pampered breeder studs of Darwin, spa-daycare as sub for real socialism.
Sounds funny how his definition of fascism matches today's chinese behaviour with Tibet and Xingjiang. But Parenti's maoist convictions are blinding him to the point he's taking defense of the opressor against the the oppressed. He's the perfect prototype of the cold hearted intelectual who thinks great ideas are more important than ordinary people.
Raised by socialists and often exposed to Marxist literature at a young age, Mussolini clearly followed the Marxist belief that society must enter a capitalist stage before a successfull socialist stage can secede it.
After achieving intial prosperity with capitalism, Mussolini began implementing land reclamations, bank nationalizations, and other major central economic reforms. He was more successful than Lenin's attempt to transform Russia from fuedalism straight into socialism.
Considering that the Fascist 4th of August Regime in Greece under Ioannis Metaxas invested heavily in state pension programs (The largest in the country's history), 8-hour work days, farm price controls, and a number of other 'progressive' labor laws, it can hardly be said that economic deregulation itself is inherently a fascist mechanism.
By the late 1930's, Fascist Italy was 2nd only to the Soviet Union in regards to the highest numbers of state owned enterprises globally. The initial economics of Fascism during early 1920's Italy had not been completely developed and has transformed into a centrally planned economy well before WWII once Mussolini his own belief in economics.
1922-1925 Fascist Italy was mostly lasseiz-faire economically. When the Great Depression hit, over 1 million Italians were unemployed and the Italian government repsondend with raising tarrifs (where previously there were none), price controls, state control of banks, and tons of other statist economic controls.
The blatantly incorrect, biased 'analysis' of Parenti and 'Suryu' that "the privatization of state owned enterprises, reduction of corporate taxes and inheritance taxes" are inherently economicly Fascist defies both history and reason.
there's no amazement needed for people not seeing the whole picture - it interferes with life so much they may well reject the knowledge for willing ignorance
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00RoninSamurai00 4 months ago
@shortywheat - Typical inexperienced twenty-something with who thinks he knows something about the real world, but has to resort to 'straw man' tactics because he has no real facts to back up his flawed argument... Your understanding of economics, or more precisely, your lack thereof, is abundantly clear. You, like all of you brainwashed statists, just keep trying to blame the failures of our current Keynesian system on the "free market" that doesn't exist, and see where that gets you...
00RoninSamurai00 4 months ago
You supporters of Parenti need to learn the meaning of words, and so does Parenti. What Parenti calls capitalism, is actually corporatism. What he calls a free market, is actually a regulated market. The capitalist free market can't be at fault where it doesn't exist. Try studying Keynesian v. Austrian economic theory, then maybe you can get your facts straight.
00RoninSamurai00 6 months ago
@00RoninSamurai00 If it doesn't exist then how can we be talking about it?
MrJimmyMad 3 weeks ago
@MrJimmyMad To be more specific, it exists as a concept, but it is not the economic system under which we live. We have a MIXED ECONOMY (Look it up), in which the unconstitutional Federal Reserve private banking cartel has been granted BY THE STATE exclusive rights to interfere with the natural market dynamics of the FREE MARKET and unfairly REGULATE in favor of its corporate shareholders. Under such an unfairly regulated market, capitalism ceases to function and CORPORATISM results.
00RoninSamurai00 3 weeks ago
I don't wanna be a Facist pig! \m/
rageagainstboxhead 8 months ago
5:55 -spot on. I marvel at how American rightwingers (who often fail to realize the views they espouse *are* very RW) desperately try to align socialism & the Left with fascism. Little wonder this dying empire is where it's at given how such a significant portion of its citizenry doesn't understand basic political/ideological philosophies ...and really, that's been strategic here; RW talking points are common within the culture, absent being accurately identified as such for what they represent.
TheeUnidentified 9 months ago
The Face of Imperialism is a powerful, frightening, and honest book. It will be hated by those who run the Empire, and it will be loved by people who are searching for truth amidst the piles of garbage of Western propaganda. Above all, this book will be like a bright spark of hope for billions of men, women, and children who are fighting this very moment for survival, defending themselves against the Empire and against all monstrous faces and masks of imperialism."
— Andre Vltchek
MichaelParentiOrg 9 months ago
@noclassatall hah a year later, i think ive become antimodern, against mass society.
otacon451 9 months ago
Jesus Christ - let this woman stop mambling! She's super annoying
JJTechnologies 1 year ago
1:45 is where the woman stops talking.
DuffmanIRL 1 year ago 2
Jonah Goldberg is seriously confused.
If you want the truth, pick up Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti.
He's a far better writer than Jonah Golberg, and my guess is Parenti has 40 or 50 IQ points on him.
wvprogressive1933 2 years ago 13
Fascism: What It Is and How to Fight It
ipwnorcs 2 years ago
I prefer Fascism and Social Revolution by Rajani Palme Dutt.
wvprogressive1933 2 years ago
In Blackshirts and Reds, Parenti uses Dutt's Fascism and Social Revolution.
wvprogressive1933 2 years ago
@wvprogressive1933 Jonah Goldberg is a dumb ass libertard
Tougemaster06 7 months ago
libertarian socialism
otacon451 2 years ago 10
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Fascism, communism, socialism and imperialism; in reality, all are the same ideology fueled by different flavors of corporatism, suppressing the rights of the individual over the needs of the state, promoting nation over human.
silverhawks 2 years ago
True. When Goebbels the nazi propaganda minister, before the nazis took power, said the socialism of nazi and internazi was the same, violent factional fighting ensued. He never said that again, but it remained true and that explains the fighting--Lenin's people laid claim to that same, shared thing, socialism! Lenin and Hitler had fan clubs, or maybe I should say Lenin's people rejected a cult of personality!?!?! Sure, OK, but both factions laid claim to "socialism".
recbo 2 years ago
Sorry I misread you somewhat. Yes, I have noticed that Soviet communism resembled an idealized 19th century monolithic monopoly corporatism, a corporatism without capitalism. Capital came in from Fels, Warburg, Whitney, later Hammer, Rockefeller, and western loans. I have a post-WW2 loan application from Ferent Nagy et al appealing for western capitalism to finance ag until ag surplus could fund industrialization i.e. corporatism, 19th century monopolies like earlier king's charter monopolies.
recbo 2 years ago
Jonah Goldberg's book is a seriously confused book with the oxymoronic title Liberal Fascists in which he claims Hitler was a socialist. This claim, among many others he makes in the book, is so outrageous it doesnt even warrant a response. The book is a philosophical and historical absurdity and Goldberg is totally ignorant in both subjects.
polymath1944 2 years ago 4
Goebbels, prior to nazis taking power, did say nazis and internazis shared a socialist aspect. Lenin's socialists became violent and Goebbels stopped saying that because he had simply been trying to persuade the middle class not engage physically with labor and poor and underclass organized under Lenin which clash would not serve Goebbel's process of intellectual persuasion.
recbo 2 years ago
"Blackshirts and Reds
robinbreeds 2 years ago
Nice work.I have done my studies on that subject too.
fathermocker123 3 years ago
So will this documentary debunk Jonah Goldberg's "Liberal Fascism" that was published in 2005?
DaHonestAbe 3 years ago
Parenti pre-debunked Mr. Goldberg's "research" that Tom Wolfe wrote advance praise for. This text on which this talk is based is in a book called "Blackshirts and Reds," which is a better documented but similarly controversial book to Mr. Goldberg.
wvprogressive1933 2 years ago
So Goldberg was lying then?
DaHonestAbe 2 years ago
And then their is this other book called "IBM and the Holocaust" about how IBM helped the Nazis carry out their genocide.
slaballinmytrunk 2 years ago
Parenti's discussion about fascism in opposition to Trade Unions, Labor Parties and other Working Class Political Organizations, closely parallels what George Orwell described in his writings about The Spanish Civil War.
The Spanish Capitalists saw their chance of crushing the Labor Movement, and took it, aided by the Nazis and the forces of reaction all over the world, the Spanish workers lost and the dividend-drawers all over the world rubbed their hands together.$.$.$!
CosmicFork 3 years ago
The nazis claimed the right to suppress independent labor organization on the basis of their counterfeit socialism, totally subservient to a militarist state. Under utopian aura of folk religion in the service of xenophobia, and beneficent paternalism with labor as little brother no longer struggling due to enfranchisement in token ways in Hitler's patriarchy fronting for corporate trojans of oligarchy. Little bro labor, pampered breeder studs of Darwin, spa-daycare as sub for real socialism.
recbo 2 years ago
Corporatism = fascism
Communism is not corporatism but the dictatorship of the communist party.
Leadership cult? That part was part of Communism too. Racism has a much smaller role in Communism but would not rule it out.
Demetrenos 3 years ago
Thank you for these videos.
CaliforniaHarpist 3 years ago
One Hell of a European History Lesson; but it seems as a variant of the European Colonization of the New World,Asia and (especially) Africa.
conneaness 3 years ago
Respect Rasta! As usual, excellent video
pompeybay2007 3 years ago
Suryu, you're really and utterly THE man. Where do you get all these videos? Where ever you get them from... Keep 'em coming!
kokemuksia 3 years ago
suruyu<3
seigneurvoland666 3 years ago
Sounds funny how his definition of fascism matches today's chinese behaviour with Tibet and Xingjiang. But Parenti's maoist convictions are blinding him to the point he's taking defense of the opressor against the the oppressed. He's the perfect prototype of the cold hearted intelectual who thinks great ideas are more important than ordinary people.
Yuninvyted 3 years ago
I love you Suryu
jmoreno718 3 years ago
Raised by socialists and often exposed to Marxist literature at a young age, Mussolini clearly followed the Marxist belief that society must enter a capitalist stage before a successfull socialist stage can secede it.
After achieving intial prosperity with capitalism, Mussolini began implementing land reclamations, bank nationalizations, and other major central economic reforms. He was more successful than Lenin's attempt to transform Russia from fuedalism straight into socialism.
DeAnte85 3 years ago
there are 2 parties ....
the corporate-neo-con party &
the free-thinking , cognitively 'alert' non-brainwashed party ...........
everything else is baloney ........
bebop54 3 years ago
Above all Mussolini implemented a brutal dictatorship.
rspawn 3 years ago
(Part 5 of 5)
Sorry socialists,communists, and anarcho-syndacalists, Parenti is the one who cannot see 'the whole picture.'
If any of you want to learn about REAL Fascism, Pick up the writings of Mussolini, D'Annunzio, Mosley, and Giovanni.
DeAnte85 3 years ago
d'annunzio ???? ....
how about secondo tranquillo ( ignazio silone )
........both were abruzzese .....
elsa morante ? ring any bells ?..........ciao
bebop54 3 years ago
WTF are you talking about? They weren't even Fascists.
DeAnte85 3 years ago
(Part 4 of 5)
Considering that the Fascist 4th of August Regime in Greece under Ioannis Metaxas invested heavily in state pension programs (The largest in the country's history), 8-hour work days, farm price controls, and a number of other 'progressive' labor laws, it can hardly be said that economic deregulation itself is inherently a fascist mechanism.
DeAnte85 3 years ago
(Parenti 3 of 5)
By the late 1930's, Fascist Italy was 2nd only to the Soviet Union in regards to the highest numbers of state owned enterprises globally. The initial economics of Fascism during early 1920's Italy had not been completely developed and has transformed into a centrally planned economy well before WWII once Mussolini his own belief in economics.
DeAnte85 3 years ago
(Part 2 of 5)
1922-1925 Fascist Italy was mostly lasseiz-faire economically. When the Great Depression hit, over 1 million Italians were unemployed and the Italian government repsondend with raising tarrifs (where previously there were none), price controls, state control of banks, and tons of other statist economic controls.
DeAnte85 3 years ago
(Part 1 of 5)
The blatantly incorrect, biased 'analysis' of Parenti and 'Suryu' that "the privatization of state owned enterprises, reduction of corporate taxes and inheritance taxes" are inherently economicly Fascist defies both history and reason.
DeAnte85 3 years ago
Parenti has excellent analysis here.
westphalianprinz 3 years ago
there's no amazement needed for people not seeing the whole picture - it interferes with life so much they may well reject the knowledge for willing ignorance
phoebus1966 3 years ago
Parenti has a very good insight on the matter. It amazes me that most people don't see the whole picture.
I highly suggest reading THE MASS PSYCHOLOGY OF FASCISM by Wilhelm Reich
divinejudge1 3 years ago
one of the greats !
nice to see parenti ....
thanks for sharin'...
bebop54 3 years ago