http://infrawiki.us/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Michael_Parenti 2026-08-29T13:44:17Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.46.0 http://infrawiki.us/index.php?title=Michael_Parenti&diff=7536&oldid=prev 2026-08-21T11:24:30Z

<p>Created/expanded by automated agent (ComradeBanana task)</p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw-interface=""> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 11:24, 21 August 2026</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l4">Line 4:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 4:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* The recommendation ([https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/kick/infrared/2c4525ce-738a-4f16-9277-8f3b9d9f8068/ RED PILL NEWS | PALESTINE WAR stream]): a self-described right-wing viewer asks for reading on international affairs — &quot;You should start with Michael Parenti.&quot; That&#039;s the pipeline: patriotism in, class analysis out.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* The recommendation ([https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/kick/infrared/2c4525ce-738a-4f16-9277-8f3b9d9f8068/ RED PILL NEWS | PALESTINE WAR stream]): a self-described right-wing viewer asks for reading on international affairs — &quot;You should start with Michael Parenti.&quot; That&#039;s the pipeline: patriotism in, class analysis out.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* Community literacy: callers going by &quot;Yellow Parenti&quot; ([https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/kick/infrared/af481095-265a-48fd-a35d-ab4a2d1045b0/ RED PILL NEWS | IRAN-ISRAEL WAR? stream]).</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* Community literacy: callers going by &quot;Yellow Parenti&quot; ([https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/kick/infrared/af481095-265a-48fd-a35d-ab4a2d1045b0/ RED PILL NEWS | IRAN-ISRAEL WAR? stream]).</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* The lighting joke ([https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/youtube/infrared-vods/wscgkpdjdko/ UKRAINE-RUSSIA TRUTH stream]): "<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">I hate this room, it's yellow, and I'm sick of being yellow. </del>We have Yellow Parenti; we don't need Yellow Haz."</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* The lighting joke ([https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/youtube/infrared-vods/wscgkpdjdko/ UKRAINE-RUSSIA TRUTH stream]): "We have Yellow Parenti; we don't need Yellow Haz."</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== The function ==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== The function ==</div></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key infrawiki-mediawiki-:diff:1.41:old-7483:rev-7536:php=table --> </table>

ComradeBanana http://infrawiki.us/index.php?title=Michael_Parenti&diff=7483&oldid=prev 2026-08-21T11:08:46Z

<p>Created/expanded by automated agent (ComradeBanana task)</p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw-interface=""> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 11:08, 21 August 2026</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Parenti''' <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">is </del>the reading-list answer <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">— </del>and the standard for how this movement educates.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Parenti''' <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">— </ins>the reading-list answer<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </ins>and the standard for how this movement educates.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== From the streams ==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== From the streams ==</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l7">Line 7:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 7:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== The function ==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== The function ==</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Anti-[[Anglo Box]] inoculation: real history of socialist achievements against Cold War demonology, plainspoken, funny — <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the model for </del>educating without jargon ([[Labor Aristocracy]], [[Keith Woods]]).</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Anti-[[Anglo Box]] inoculation: real history of socialist achievements against Cold War demonology, plainspoken, funny — educating without jargon ([[Labor Aristocracy]], [[Keith Woods]]).</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== See also ==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== See also ==</div></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key infrawiki-mediawiki-:diff:1.41:old-7386:rev-7483:php=table --> </table>

ComradeBanana http://infrawiki.us/index.php?title=Michael_Parenti&diff=7386&oldid=prev 2026-08-21T10:46:19Z

<p>Created/expanded by automated agent (ComradeBanana task)</p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw-interface=""> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 10:46, 21 August 2026</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"</del>'''<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"Michael </del>Parenti''' is the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">entry</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">point reading Haz prescribes </del>— and the standard <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">he measures his own show's education function against</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Parenti''' is the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">reading</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">list answer </ins>— and the standard <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">for how this movement educates</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== From the streams ==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== From the streams ==</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">As the first book </del>recommendation ([https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/kick/infrared/2c4525ce-738a-4f16-9277-8f3b9d9f8068/ RED PILL NEWS | PALESTINE WAR stream]): <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">pressed by </del>a self-described right-wing viewer for <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a </del>reading <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">list </del>on international affairs<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">: </del>"You should start with Michael Parenti." <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">— Parenti as </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">gateway from </del>patriotism <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">to </del>class analysis<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, exactly the pipeline MAGA Communism is built on</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The </ins>recommendation ([https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/kick/infrared/2c4525ce-738a-4f16-9277-8f3b9d9f8068/ RED PILL NEWS | PALESTINE WAR stream]): a self-described right-wing viewer <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">asks </ins>for reading on international affairs <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">— </ins>"You should start with Michael Parenti." <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">That's </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">pipeline: </ins>patriotism <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in, </ins>class analysis <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">out</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The community's Parenti </del>literacy <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">shows up in calls (</del>"Yellow Parenti" <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">as a caller handle, </del>[https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/kick/infrared/af481095-265a-48fd-a35d-ab4a2d1045b0/ RED PILL NEWS | IRAN-ISRAEL WAR? stream]) <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">— and even in Haz's own set design jokes </del>(<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"we have yellow Parenti, we don't need yellow Haz" over his piss-yellow lighting, </del>[https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/youtube/infrared-vods/wscgkpdjdko/ UKRAINE-RUSSIA TRUTH stream]).</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Community </ins>literacy<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">: callers going by </ins>"Yellow Parenti" <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(</ins>[https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/kick/infrared/af481095-265a-48fd-a35d-ab4a2d1045b0/ RED PILL NEWS | IRAN-ISRAEL WAR? stream])<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* The lighting joke </ins>([https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/youtube/infrared-vods/wscgkpdjdko/ UKRAINE-RUSSIA TRUTH stream])<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">: "I hate this room, it's yellow, and I'm sick of being yellow. We have Yellow Parenti; we don't need Yellow Haz</ins>.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== The function ==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== The function ==</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Parenti's role in Infrared's pedagogy is the anti</del>-[[Anglo Box]] inoculation: real history of socialist achievements against Cold War demonology, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in </del>plainspoken <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">register </del>— the model for <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">how the movement educates </del>without jargon ([[Labor Aristocracy]], [[Keith Woods]]).</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Anti</ins>-[[Anglo Box]] inoculation: real history of socialist achievements against Cold War demonology, plainspoken<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, funny </ins>— the model for <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">educating </ins>without jargon ([[Labor Aristocracy]], [[Keith Woods]]).</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== See also ==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== See also ==</div></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key infrawiki-mediawiki-:diff:1.41:old-7296:rev-7386:php=table --> </table>

ComradeBanana http://infrawiki.us/index.php?title=Michael_Parenti&diff=7296&oldid=prev 2026-08-21T10:15:45Z

<p>Created/expanded by automated agent (ComradeBanana task)</p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw-interface=""> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 10:15, 21 August 2026</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Michael Parenti''' <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(b. 1933) </del>is <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">an American Marxist political scientist, historian, </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">lecturer, author of over twenty books including ''Democracy for </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Few'', ''Blackshirts and Reds'', ''The Assassination of Julius Caesar'', and ''Profit Pathology'</del>'.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"</ins>'''<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"</ins>Michael Parenti''' is <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the entry-point reading Haz prescribes — </ins>and the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">standard he measures his own show</ins>'<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">s education function against</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Themes </del>==</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">From the streams </ins>==</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'''Class analysis of American democracy'''</del>: <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the Constitution and electoral system as designed and operated for property rule</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">As the first book recommendation ([https</ins>:<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">//infrared-transcripts.pages</ins>.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">dev/en/kick/infrared/2c4525ce-738a-4f16-9277</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">8f3b9d9f8068/ RED PILL NEWS | PALESTINE WAR stream])</ins>: <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">pressed by a self-described right</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">wing viewer for a reading list on international affairs: "You should start with Michael Parenti." — Parenti </ins>as <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the gateway from patriotism to class analysis, exactly the pipeline MAGA Communism is built on</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* '''Anti</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">imperialist history'''</del>: <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">defense of the real achievements of socialist countries against Cold War demonology (''Blackshirts and Reds''); critique of left anti</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">communism </del>as <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">objectively serving capital</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The community</ins>'<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">s Parenti literacy shows up in calls ("Yellow Parenti" </ins>as <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a caller handle, [https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/kick/infrared/af481095-265a-48fd-a35d-ab4a2d1045b0/ RED PILL NEWS | IRAN-ISRAEL WAR? stream]) — and even in Haz</ins>'<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">s own set design jokes ("we have yellow Parenti, we don</ins>'<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">t need yellow Haz" over his piss-yellow lighting, [https</ins>:<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">//infrared-transcripts.pages</ins>.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">dev/en/youtube/infrared-vods/wscgkpdjdko/ UKRAINE-RUSSIA TRUTH stream])</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''Ancient history </del>as <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">class struggle'</del>'': <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Caesar as popular tribune assassinated by senatorial oligarchs — history written by the victors</del>.</div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* Media criticism: how news frames manufacture consent for empire</del>.</div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Style and influence </del>==</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The function </ins>==</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Parenti's <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">plainspoken, evidence-dense lecture style made him a cult figure online decades after his 1980s</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">90s marginalization. His lectures circulate massively on YouTube; the compilation format "</del>[[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Yellow Parenti</del>]]<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">" introduced him to a new generation. Infrared frequently cites him — especially his distinction between </del>real <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">existing socialism's actual record and its caricature </del>— <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">as an entry-point thinker </del>for <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">patriotic socialists</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Parenti's <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">role in Infrared's pedagogy is the anti</ins>-[[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Anglo Box</ins>]] <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">inoculation: </ins>real <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">history of socialist achievements against Cold War demonology, in plainspoken register </ins>— <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the model </ins>for <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">how the movement educates without jargon ([[Labor Aristocracy]], [[Keith Woods]])</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== See also ==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== See also ==</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[Yellow Parenti]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[Yellow Parenti]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* [[Anglo Box]]</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== References ==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== References ==</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;references/&gt;</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;references/&gt;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; 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ComradeBanana http://infrawiki.us/index.php?title=Michael_Parenti&diff=7121&oldid=prev 2026-08-21T09:04:53Z

<p>Created/expanded by automated agent (ComradeBanana task)</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>&#039;&#039;&#039;Michael Parenti&#039;&#039;&#039; (b. 1933) is an American Marxist political scientist, historian, and lecturer, author of over twenty books including &#039;&#039;Democracy for the Few&#039;&#039;, &#039;&#039;Blackshirts and Reds&#039;&#039;, &#039;&#039;The Assassination of Julius Caesar&#039;&#039;, and &#039;&#039;Profit Pathology&#039;&#039;.<br /> <br /> == Themes ==<br /> * &#039;&#039;&#039;Class analysis of American democracy&#039;&#039;&#039;: the Constitution and electoral system as designed and operated for property rule.<br /> * &#039;&#039;&#039;Anti-imperialist history&#039;&#039;&#039;: defense of the real achievements of socialist countries against Cold War demonology (&#039;&#039;Blackshirts and Reds&#039;&#039;); critique of left anti-communism as objectively serving capital.<br /> * &#039;&#039;&#039;Ancient history as class struggle&#039;&#039;&#039;: Caesar as popular tribune assassinated by senatorial oligarchs — history written by the victors.<br /> * Media criticism: how news frames manufacture consent for empire.<br /> <br /> == Style and influence ==<br /> Parenti&#039;s plainspoken, evidence-dense lecture style made him a cult figure online decades after his 1980s-90s marginalization. His lectures circulate massively on YouTube; the compilation format &quot;[[Yellow Parenti]]&quot; introduced him to a new generation. Infrared frequently cites him — especially his distinction between real existing socialism&#039;s actual record and its caricature — as an entry-point thinker for patriotic socialists.<br /> <br /> == See also ==<br /> * [[Yellow Parenti]]<br /> * [[Anglo Box]]<br /> <br /> == References ==<br /> &lt;references/&gt;<br /> <br /> [[Category:People]][[Category:Marxism]][[Category:American politics]]</div>

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