Michael Parenti -- Myth of UnderDevelopment!

Capitalism, Socialism, Communism; all the "isms" are monetary based...the ony difference is the amount of regulation by the govt.

It is time to move to a resource based, global society....the world we ALL deserve.

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Parenti is a brilliant Marxist intellectual. The third-worldization of the planet is underway, and has been for decades, to the detriment of global communities and resources

He is brilliant and I first learned of the concept of "maldevelopment" from his excellent book "Against Empire."
But like most Marxists, Parenti also sees history as being in a EUROCENTRIC vacuum...it's all about modern America, it's all about post-1913 America, instead of really framing it from a better context of 1492, when Europeans emerged out of Europe into a world that was already First World in many places, like Mexico and Peru and China.

A better Marxist (in my opinion) was James Blaut. He wrote "The Colonizer's Model of the World" and framed all the modern stuff in the context of the 1492 European colonial beginnings.
People like Michael Parenti and other Marxists because he sanitizes the GENOCIDE that allows a thing called "America" to exist in the first place.
Marxists don't like to see the blood on their own hands and the Apartheid that is happening right under their nose, and Parenti is a good Marxist in that regard.

There is a huge difference between a Marxist and a "Liberationist".
1) A Marxist visits the concentration camp and tells the prisoners that they need to "organize" and learn to speak their captor's language.
2) Liberation is about wanting the people freed from their captors, free to reclaim their land, language, and self-determination independent of their captors.

Most Marxists are white. Their very identity is not under assault, their nations NOT under occupation.

action without theory is just as bad as theory without action.

I wish Marxists would just once look at the blood under their own feet.
But they are too fixated on the sexual hard-on they have for an economic theory to take notice of such inconveniences.
Both Capitalists and Marxists reduce people down to economic units...and both are Eurocentric about their worldviews.

culture and identity are economic

without culture, you would not even have the CONCEPT of "economic"

according to marx men's consciousness is determined by their economic status within the system...that if it wasn't for the bubonic plague and the discovery of the Americas and subsequently the pillage of land and resources in Americas there would have never been an emergence of the bourgeoisie class and enlightenment period would have never happened..no enlightenment.. no critical thinkers..no thinkers....then the degradation of culture..you see it's all connected..culture and economics