Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552276 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism Author: Michael Parenti Narrator: Timothy Andrés Pabon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 29 minutes Release date: February 1, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.63 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A bold and entertaining exploration of the epic struggles of yesterday and today. Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, revolution, democracy, and ecology. These terms are often bandied about, but seldom explored in the original and exciting way that has become Michael Parenti's trademark. Parenti shows how 'rational fascism' renders service to capitalism, how corporate power undermines democracy, and how revolutions are a mass empowerment against the forces of exploitative privilege. He also maps out the external and internal forces that destroyed communism, and the disastrous impact of the 'free-market' victory on eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. He affirms the relevance of taboo ideologies like Marxism, demonstrating the importance of class analysis in understanding political realities and dealing with the ongoing collision between ecology and global corporatism. Written with lucid and compelling style, this book goes beyond truncated modes of thought, inviting us to entertain iconoclastic views, and to ask why things are as they are.