„The peculiar danger of executive power is that it executes.“
Quelle: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 14, p. 259
Geburtstag: 1933
Michael Parenti ist ein marxistischer US-amerikanischer Politologe, Historiker und Autor von 19 Büchern und 250 Artikeln. Er wurde 1962 an der Yale-Universität in Politik promoviert und lehrte an mehreren Universitäten und Colleges. Heute ist er in politischen Talkshows auf Radiosendern zu hören. Seine Werke sind weltweit bekannt.
Für sein Buch The Assassination of Julius Caesar wurde er für den Pulitzer-Preis nominiert. Wikipedia
„The peculiar danger of executive power is that it executes.“
Quelle: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 14, p. 259
— Michael Parenti, buch The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People's History of Ancient Rome
Introduction
The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People's History of Ancient Rome (2003)
The Anti-Communist Impulse http://books.google.com/books?id=i6V2AAAAMAAJ&q=%22Our+fear+that+Communism+might+someday+take+over+most+of+the+world+blinds+us+to+the+fact+that+anti-communism+already+has%22&pg=PA4#v=onepage (1970)
„One does not have to be a Marxist to know there is something very wrong in this society.“
4 POLITICAL THEORY AN CONSCIOUSNESS, Political Science Fiction, p. 231
Dirty truths (1996), first edition
1 POLITICS AND ISSUES, Making The World Safe For Hypocrisy, p. 64
Dirty truths (1996), first edition
„Profits are what you make when not working.“
Quelle: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 2, p. 9
Quelle: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 12, p. 203
2 MEDIA AND CULTURE, Giving Labor The Business, p. 122
Dirty truths (1996), first edition
„The mass media are class media.“
2 MEDIA AND CULTURE, Fabricating a "Cultural Democracy", p. 107
Dirty truths (1996), first edition
Quelle: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 1, p. 4
Table of Contents, Fascism
Blackshirts and Reds (1997)
"The 1% Pathology And The Myth of Capitalism" October 19, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKyX7GNHYkQ&t=218
Preface to the Sixth Edition, p. viii
Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition
„Maintaining silence about a dirty truth is another way of lying, a common practice in high places.“
2 MEDIA AND CULTURE, The Invisible Bloodbaths, p. 132
Dirty truths (1996), first edition
2 MEDIA AND CULTURE, Yeltsin's Coup And The Medias Alchemy, p. 140
Dirty truths (1996), first edition
„When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed.“
5 MISCELLANY AND MEMORABILIA, Struggles in Academe: A Personal Account, p. 248
Dirty truths (1996), first edition
„The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.“
1 POLITICS AND ISSUES, Creating The Poor, p. 21
Dirty truths (1996), first edition
Quelle: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 11, p. 179
„There is a century-old saying, "The dollar votes more times than the man."“
Quelle: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 13, p. 222
„It is not Socialism that subverts democracy, but democracy that subverts capitalism.“
Quelle: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 17, p. 320