Tommy Fitzgerald's Reviews > Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

The only difference between this book and a twitter thread from a Stalinist Hasanabi fan is that the character limit makes it harder for them to yap as much as Parenti does here. Probably contains the worst attempt I’ve ever seen from an academic at using a more accessible writing style and at points feels like reading a slightly more professional version of a pseudointellectual Reddit comment. Most memorable arguments were “left-wing criticism of the USSR being capitalist is wrong because the USSR had a strong welfare state” and “the gulags were okay since they were only concentration camps instead of death camps”.