He affirms the relevance of taboo ideologies like Marxism, demonstrating the importance of class analysis in understanding political realities and dealing with the ongoing collusion between ecology and global corporatism. Written with lucid and compelling style, this book goes beyond truncated modes of thought, inviting us to entertain iconoclastic views, and to ask why things are the way they are. It is a bold and entertaining exploration of the epic struggles of yesterday and today. Then and now, fascism has made irrational mass appeals in order to secure the rational ends of class domination.
Revolutions are a mass empowerment against the forces of exploitative privilege.
They bring a dramatic reduction in political and economic oppression. The internal irrationalities and weaknesses of past communist economies and the systemic reasons why productivity stagnated and reforms were so difficult to effect. The historic accomplishments in economic development within communist countries represented a positive gain in the lives of hundreds of millions. Privileges from pre-communist days restored to the old owning classes. Western investors plunder the public sector at great profit to themselves, reducing the former communist countries to Third World levels.