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Michael Parenti


Born
in New York, The United States
September 30, 1933

Website

Genre
History, Political Science

Influences
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Antonio Gramsci ...more


Michael John Parenti, Ph.D. (Yale University) is an American political scientist, academic historian and cultural critic who writes on scholarly and popular subjects. He has taught at universities as well as run for political office. Parenti is well known for his Marxist writings and lectures. He is a notable intellectual of the American Left and he is most known for his criticism of capitalism and American foreign policy.

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“The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps for the many. The glittering mansion overlooks a vast sprawl of shanty towns, wherein a desperate, demoralized humanity is kept in line with drugs, television, and armed force.”
― Michael Parenti, Against Empire
tags: capitalism, drugs, humanity, miltary, nature, television
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“People who think they're free in this world just haven't come to the end of their leash yet.”
― Michael Parenti
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“Official Washington cannot tell the American people that the real purpose of its gargantuan military expenditures and belligerent interventions is to make the world safe for General Motors, General Electric, General Dynamics, and all the other generals.”
― Michael Parenti, Against Empire
tags: american-foreign-policy, corporatism, imperialism, militarism, united-states
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