Parenti made this exact point in one of his speeches and I think Inventing Reality. Pop culture isn’t popular culture in the sense of popular being of the populi or of the people. It is pushed top-down by the bourgeoisie to cultivate capital realism and learned helplessness and hopelessness among the masses, to rob them of their sense of solidarity with each other and their spark of rebelliousness directed towards a better world., turning them into completely atomized individuals whose only purpose in life is to consoom.
For books anyway, the two books people recommend are Blackshirts and Reds and Inventing Reality. For lectures, there’s Yellow Parenti (just search for yellow parenti on Youtube).
It’s split into 5 parts:
Part 1: The Myth of the Founding Fathers
Part 2: The Spanish American War and the Rise of US Imperialism
Part 3: The Functions of Fascism
Part 4: The Real Causes of World War II
Part 5: Psycho-history
Parenti made this exact point in one of his speeches and I think Inventing Reality. Pop culture isn’t popular culture in the sense of popular being of the populi or of the people. It is pushed top-down by the bourgeoisie to cultivate capital realism and learned helplessness and hopelessness among the masses, to rob them of their sense of solidarity with each other and their spark of rebelliousness directed towards a better world., turning them into completely atomized individuals whose only purpose in life is to consoom.
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For books anyway, the two books people recommend are Blackshirts and Reds and Inventing Reality. For lectures, there’s Yellow Parenti (just search for yellow parenti on Youtube).
I also like his series of lectures called Real History. There’s a playlist here (ignore the random Fortnite video at the end): https://invidious.protokolla.fi/playlist?list=PLZdjCqT95Peq3KzB0hU2b_BOi5BF2nmkj
It’s split into 5 parts:
Part 1: The Myth of the Founding Fathers
Part 2: The Spanish American War and the Rise of US Imperialism
Part 3: The Functions of Fascism
Part 4: The Real Causes of World War II
Part 5: Psycho-history