Actually, the New Deal's central dedication was to business recovery rather than social reform. — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
The dirty truth is that many people find fascism to be not particularly horrible. — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Maintaining silence about a dirty truth is another way of lying, a common practice in high places. — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
The Federalists also used bribes, intimidation, and fraud against opponents of the Constitution. — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
There is a century-old saying, "The dollar votes more times than the man." — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
The two party electoral system performs the essential function of helping to legitimate the existing social order. — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
The rich have grown richer, but their tax rate has declined. The poor have grown poorer, but their taxes have increased. — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Union busting has become a major industry with more than a thousand consulting firms teaching companies how to prevent workers from organizing… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Russia became a juicy chunk of the Third World, with immense reserves of cheap labor, a vast treasure of natural resources, and… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
The close relationship between politics and economics is neither neutral nor coincidental. Large governments evolve through history in order to protect large… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
The American way is to criticize and debate openly, not to accept unthinkingly the doings of government officials of this or any… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Revolutions are not push button affairs; rather, they evolve only if there exists a reservoir of hope and grievance that can be… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
It is ironic that people of modest means sometimes become conservative out of a scarcity fear bred by the very capitalist system… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
A nation as such does not give aid to another nation. More precisely, the common citizens of our country, through their taxes,… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Archbishop Romero of El Salvador was a member of the Salvadoran aristocracy. He could not have risen to the top of the… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
In societies that worship money and success, the losers become objects of scorn. Those who work the hardest for the least are… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
The god who presides over the Judeo-Christian belief system bears a disquieting resemblance to those imperfect creations known as human beings. This… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
To make the world safe for those who own it, politically active elements of the owning class have created a national security… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Conservatives are fond of telling us what a wonderful, happy, prosperous nation this is. The only thing that matches their love of… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Ecology's implications for capitalism are too momentous for the capitalist to contemplate. The plutocrats are more wedded to their wealth than to… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
All economic and political institutions are contrivances that should serve the interests of the people. When they fail to do so, they… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Global warming is already acting upon us with an accelerated feedback and compounded effect that may be irreversible! We do not have… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
If one looks into the genealogies of many 'old families,' one discovers episodes of slave trafficking, bootlegging, gun running, opium trading, falsified… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Between 1831 and 1891, US armed forces - usually the Marines - invaded Mexico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Panama, Colombia,… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
My point is that it's incorrect to say that the Iraq policy isn't working. It is working. It is doing what they… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Editors and reporters are not as free and independent to invite a variety of opinions as they might think. They are free… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Conventional opinions fit so comfortably into the dominant paradigm as to be seen not as opinions but as statements of fact, as… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Candidates who win while spending less than their opponents still usually have to spend quite a lot. While not a surefire guarantor… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
To complain about how the media are dominated by liberals, Limbaugh has an hour a day on network television, an hour on… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
The crucial role communists played in organizing industrial unions in the 1930s and struggling for social reforms, peace, and civil rights strengthened… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
The most powerful ideologies are not those that prevail against all challengers but those that are never challenged because in their ubiquity… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Even though the crime rate has dropped in recent years, the United States has more police per capita then any other nation… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Every ruling class has wanted only this: all the rewards and none of the burdens. The operational code is: we have a… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
One finds fortunes built on slave labor, indentured labor, prison labor, immigrant labor, female labor, child labor, and scab labor - backed… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Conservatives insist that government should be "run more like a business." One might wonder how that could be possible, since government does… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
A nation as such does not give aid to another nation. More precisely, the common citizens of our country, through their taxes, give to… — Michael Parenti Copy Share
Democracy is not about trust; it is about distrust. It is about accountability, exposure, open debate, critical challenge, and popular input and feedback from… — Michael Parenti Copy Share
All economic and political institutions are contrivances that should serve the interests of the people. When they fail to do so, they should be… — Michael Parenti Copy Share
[The ruling elites] know who their enemies are, and their enemies are the people, the people at home and the people abroad. Their enemies… — Michael Parenti Copy Share
Even though the crime rate has dropped in recent years, the United States has more police per capita then any other nation in the… — Michael Parenti Copy Share
The crucial role communists played in organizing industrial unions in the 1930s and struggling for social reforms, peace, and civil rights strengthened rather then… — Michael Parenti Copy Share
Candidates who win while spending less than their opponents still usually have to spend quite a lot. While not a surefire guarantor of victory,… — Michael Parenti Copy Share
People who think they're free in this world just haven't come to the end of their leash yet. — Michael Parenti Copy Share
The rich have grown richer, but their tax rate has declined. The poor have grown poorer, but their taxes have increased. — Michael Parenti Copy Share
In almost every enterprise, government has provided business with opportunities for private gain at public expense. Government nurtures private capital accumulation through a process… — Michael Parenti Copy Share
The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks,… — Michael Parenti Copy Share
Official Washington cannot tell the American people that the real purpose of its gargantuan military expenditures and belligerent interventions is to make the world… — Michael Parenti Copy Share
Ecology's implications for capitalism are too momentous for the capitalist to contemplate. The plutocrats are more wedded to their wealth than to the Earth… — Michael Parenti Copy Share
