• You’re saying Christian Parenti? He’s progressive for the most part (especially his fight against climate change) but an odd well meaning liberal, while he is anti-imperialist, he supports Trump because of his embrace of Russia and rejection of NATO.

    I feel like he must’ve processed Michael’s ideas on imperialism but got his brain all scrambled up when he went to the London School of Economics (the flagship of liberalism) to get his PhD and rejected Marxism and believes that the evils in the world can be solved by the tired old line of liberalism.

    His idea that Trump might be better than Biden is probably true, at least in American foreign policy but he lacks the vision and solutions that his father has.

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      Michael Parenti is sooo based. How can his son have ended a soc dem? It is just crazy!

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        I mean, my father is a hardline conservative that thinks Trump is the best president we’ve had.

        Yet I’m a communist. We don’t necessarily follow in our parent’s footsteps.

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        Put someone through American society, and even with Parenti as your dad coming out as a soc-dem after the American stuctures have there way with you is still impressive honestly, mfe’ers get the most intense brainwashing imaginable.

    • You’re saying Christian Parenti? He’s progressive for the most part (especially his fight against climate change) but an odd well meaning liberal, while he is anti-imperialist, he supports Trump because of his embrace of Russia and rejection of NATO.

      How the de’il is he liberal? Seems more akin to a Larouchite, if not Patsoc, if I’m bein’ honest…

      • Larouchite… perhaps, but Patsoc is not fair given that he isn’t anti-LGBTQ+ (that I’m aware of, if I’m wrong comrade, I will apologize profusely) and culturally he is a progressive liberal…

        While a huge step down from his dad, he’s way better than those Patsoc chucklefucks and almost everyone in the US. Unless you’re trying to claim that Biden is better than Trump on foreign policy, at best they’re equally shit.

        Hopefully he sees the light.