Book Review: Blackshirts and Reds - Nazis vs Soviets, a Marxist-Leninist Class Analysis

Essential reading for every socialist. In Blackshirts and Reds, Parenti draws attention to how mainstream and left intellectuals have superimposed their liberal ideology in a way that equates fascism with communism. This book attempts to show the enormous differences between fascism and communism both past and present, both in theory and practice, especially in regard to questions of social equality, private capital accumulation, and class interest.

0:00 Intro
1:52 Chapter 1 - Rational Fascism
16:09 Chapter 2 - Let Us Now Praise Revolution
28:58 Chapter 3 - Left Anticommunism
42:21 Chapter 4 - Communism In Wonderland
51:32 Chapter 5 - Stalin's Fingers
56:16 Chapter 6 - The Free-Market Paradise Goes East (I)
1:03:17 Chapter 7 - The Free-Market Paradise Goes East (II)
1:11:28 Chapter 8 - The End Of Marxism?
1:29:42 Chapter 9 - Anything But Class: Avoiding the C-Word