It was on the Communist Current YouTube channel, uploaded on Sep. 1 2019, (now deleted for some reason) and this is the description:
Progressive author and scholar Michael Parenti discusses his most recent book, “Profit Pathology and Other Indecencies” and the ongoing global struggle against austerity.
Note: This is an Interview from 2015 and one of the reuploaded episodes of Back In The USSR.
It might take awhile to load, but I’m playing it now and it’s worked for the first 3 minutes so far anyway.
I’m posting rare Parentis here.
Edit: Oh, I get why the channel was deleted now. It was an agitprop offshoot of the Ontario/Toronto Communist party/group, run by Clara Sorrenti (who was actually on episode 36 of Proles Of The Round table, as an aside) and she had some weird meltdown about dengism and revisionism and quit the party. She deleted all of her accounts and the Communist Current’s videos with it, it’s now run as some sort ultra-Maoist shitposting I guess?
Here’s the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChft9yG7LZTlrCczYoRvDtg
Thanks for sharing this.
I heard about it because of a shit anti-Parenti video Zero Books did and someone in the comments asked about this video and I was able to find it. I wish Zero Books weren’t squishy LeftCom weirdos. Too many people involved with them are anti-communist and useless.
Also I was looking for anything Parenti’s done publically since 2015 and I could only find this CGTN article from Feb, 2020. It has two small sections from an interview I guess they had with him, but it doesn’t say when this interview took place. Presumably this year.
Dr. Michael Parenti, a progressive political scientist from Yale University explained me in an interview that he sees this similarly. "The Rustbelt people in the U.S. feel that they have worked harder but are earning less than those professionals. Many of the working public might have given stronger support to Bernie Sanders. But after he was defeated by Clinton, they have switched to Donald Trump who gives the facile impression of being for the common people.”
If Bernie Sanders is going to win all the primaries before the final stage of election, it is for the mainstream progressive media people to figure out how to redefine populism, as Dr. Parenti showed: “the real populism should be in the progressives, as Trump only used it as a means to win votes that he never really cared about the common people.”
