"My point is that it's incorrect to say……" — Michael Parenti
"My point is that it's incorrect to say that the Iraq policy isn't working. It is working. It is doing what they want. They have got control of the oil and they are exporting it, and they have stripped a government that was 90% state owned and they are privatizing it. ... They have taken a country that was self defining and self developing and is now an impoverished prostrate devastated country where people will line up to work for slave wages or become members of the police or army because it's the only job they can get and serve as adjuncts to U.S. imperialism."
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48 Quotes by Michael Parenti
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The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that…
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The conservative goal has been the Third Worldization of the United States: an increasingly underemployed, lower-wage work-force; a small but…
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No system in history capitalism has been more relentless in battering down ancient and fragile cultures, devouring the resources of…
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The first law of the market is to make the largest possible profit from other people's labor or go out…
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Generosity toward the lower classes historically has never been an important part of upper-class awareness.
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In societies that worship money and success, the losers become objects of scorn. Those who work the hardest for the…
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Only by establishing military supremacy were the European and North American colonizers able to eliminate the crafts and industries of…
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The general mental qualification necessary for scientific advancement is that which is usually denominated "common sense," though added to this,…
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Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all…
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Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without protest…
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For within livin structures defined by profit, by linear power, by institutional dehumanization, our feelings were not meant to survive.…
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In the universities, cheap, vulnerable labor means adjuncts and graduate students.
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