Top 5 xc: Michael Parenti

Top 5 xc: Michael Parenti

  1. “In the end I created a career of my own, concentrating on my writing and lecturing, reaching larger audiences than I would had I ended up with tenure and a full teaching load. It was Virginia Woolf who said that it is terrible to be frozen out of a sacred tradition--but even more terrible to be frozen into it." (From Dirty Truths, 1996)
  2. “Those who suffer from conspiracy phobia are fond of saying: ‘Do you actually think there’s a group of people sitting around in a room plotting things?’ For some reason that image is assumed to be so patently absurd as to invite only disclaimers. But where else would people of power get together – on park benches or carousels?” (From Dirty Truths, 1996)
  3. “The most insidious forms of oppression are those that so insinuate themselves into our communication universe and the recesses of our minds that we do not even realize they are acting upon us. The most powerful ideologies are not those that prevail against all challengers but those that are never challenged because in their ubiquity they appear as nothing more than the unadorned truth.” (From Culture Struggle, 2005)
  4. ?“How odd that fewer police were needed in the communist police state than in the free-market paradise.” (From Blackshirts and Reds, 1997)
  5. “There is nothing sacred about the existing system. All economic and political institutions are contrivances that should serve the interests of the people. When they fail to do so, they should be replaced by something more responsive, more just, and more democratic. Marx said this, and so did Jefferson. It is a revolutionary doctrine, and very much an American one.” (From Democracy for the Few, 1974)

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