Rest in peace, comrade.
For those who haven't read or seen Parenti speak, I highly recommend both the "Yellow Parenti" Speech and Blackshirts and Reds | Audiobook both litanies against anti-communist mythos, an examination of the real successes and struggles in the USSR, and an analysis of fascism.
Michael Parenti's Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media has always been better than Manufacturing Consent. Considering Chomsky's appearance in the Epstein files as being good friends with billionaire pedophiles, On Chomsky is also a fantastic read for why the left should reject him.
Parenti has turned countless westerners into Marxists, and was vital in my own journey to the left. May we carry on his legacy.
Social Democrats and to a lesser extend Pure Identity Politics Progressives.
But social democrats first and foremost, because the social democrats usually have a couple of charismatic intellectual gurus.
For the US it's Noam Chomsky
Greece has Yanis Varoufakis
the Netherlands has Maarten van Rossem
Is he a just a social democrat? I am reading Techno Feudalism right now and he comes off as a bit further left than that to me.