Reply #10: That sounds like the slander that RW leafletters used against him

[Moochy]

...given the speeches I've heard him make on KPFA, and in person, and the 3 books I've read by him.

Anyone who use class analysis is painted as a china apologist or a stalin apologist. Your impression may have been accurate, I'm not so sure, but it seems like red-bating to me.

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Parenti/Superpatriotism.html

I read the pamphlet which claimed he said that only 1000 people were in the gulags and that is just a lie.

"Democracy is not about trust; it is about distrust. It is about accountability, exposure, open debate, critical challenge, and popular input and feedback from the citizenry. It is about responsible government. We have to get our fellow Americans to trust their leaders less and themselves more, trust their own questions and suspicions, and their own desire to know what is going on."
Michael Parenti