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Michael Parenti


American political scientist, historian and media critic.
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Russia became a juicy chunk of the Third World, with immense reserves of cheap labor, a vast treasure of natural resources, and industrial assets to be sold off at giveaway prices.
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Those who control the wealth of this society have an influence over political life far in excess of their number.
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One mechanism of repression is the grand jury.




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The peculiar danger of executive power is that it executes.
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There is a century-old saying, "The dollar votes more times than the man."
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Conservatives insist that government should be " run more like a business." One might wonder how that could be possible, since government does not market goods and services for the purpose of capital accumulation.
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One does not have to be a Marxist to know there is something very wrong in this society.
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Profits are what you make when not working.
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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.
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Conservatives have nothing against incumbency when it is their people who are filling the slots.
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The mass media are class media.




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The trick is to steal big.
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Actually, the New Deal's central dedication was to business recovery rather than social reform.
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The crucial role communists played in organizing industrial unions in the 1930s and struggling for social reforms, peace, and civil rights strengthened rather then undermined democratic forces.
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Conservatives are fond of telling us what a wonderful, happy, prosperous nation this is. The only thing that matches their love of country is the remarkable indifference they show toward the people who live in it.
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The rich have grown richer, but their tax rate has declined. The poor have grown poorer, but their taxes have increased.
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To make the world safe for those who own it, politically active elements of the owning class have created a national security state that expends billions of dollars and enlists the efforts of vast numbers of people.
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The Federalists also used bribes, intimidation, and fraud against opponents of the Constitution.
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