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Blackshirts & Reds | Theory Discussion Group, Weeks 5-6 of 2026

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Read Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism(Michael Parenti, 1997) on ProleWiki

You can post questions or share your thoughts at any time, even after we've moved on to a new text.

Suggest upcoming texts here.

  1. The Defeat of One's Own Government in the Imperialist War
  2. How to Be a Good Communist
  3. The Wretched of the Earth (1, 2-3, 4, 5-)
  4. The Foundations of Leninism
  5. Decolonization is not a metaphor
  6. Marxism and the National Question
  7. China Has Billionaires
  8. Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism
  9. Wage Labour and Capital
  10. Value, Price and Profit
  11. On the shortcomings of party work [...]
  12. Fighting Fascism: How to Struggle and How to Win
  13. Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
  14. What is to be done?
  15. Elementary principles of philosophy
  16. The State and Revolution
  17. "Left-Wing" Communism: an Infantile Disorder
  18. Blood in My Eye
  19. On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People
  20. The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky
  21. The Poverty of Philosophy

Keep in mind that the book has its flaws. Parenti refers to Stalin as a "dictator" in one section, and he seemed to have fallen for US propaganda about post-Mao China. Regardless, it's still a valuable introductory resource to the history of anticommunism.

The version on ProleWiki has a few formatting errors (e.g. at least one missing word at the beginning of a section), but the book is also available as an EPUB or PDF on Anna's Archive.

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