Michael Parenti
""Michael Parenti is the entry-point reading Haz prescribes — and the standard he measures his own show's education function against.
From the streams
- As the first book recommendation (RED PILL NEWS | PALESTINE WAR stream): pressed by a self-described right-wing viewer for a reading list on international affairs: "You should start with Michael Parenti." — Parenti as the gateway from patriotism to class analysis, exactly the pipeline MAGA Communism is built on.
- The community's Parenti literacy shows up in calls ("Yellow Parenti" as a caller handle, RED PILL NEWS | IRAN-ISRAEL WAR? stream) — and even in Haz's own set design jokes ("we have yellow Parenti, we don't need yellow Haz" over his piss-yellow lighting, UKRAINE-RUSSIA TRUTH stream).
The function
Parenti's role in Infrared's pedagogy is the anti-Anglo Box inoculation: real history of socialist achievements against Cold War demonology, in plainspoken register — the model for how the movement educates without jargon (Labor Aristocracy, Keith Woods).