Michael Parenti
American political scientist, historian and media critic.
Conservatives have nothing against incumbency when it is their people who are filling the slots.
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.
Those who control the wealth of this society have an influence over political life far in excess of their number.
One mechanism of repression is the grand jury.
The peculiar danger of executive power is that it executes.
There is a century-old saying, "The dollar votes more times than the man."
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.
One does not have to be a Marxist to know there is something very wrong in this society.
Profits are what you make when not working.
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.
Twelve states in the Great Plains have a wind energy potential greater then the electric use of our entire nation.
The mass media are class media.
The trick is to steal big.
Actually, the New Deal's central dedication was to business recovery rather than social reform.
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.
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.
The rich have grown richer, but their tax rate has declined. The poor have grown poorer, but their taxes have increased.
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.
The Federalists also used bribes, intimidation, and fraud against opponents of the Constitution.
Union busting has become a major industry with more than a thousand consulting firms teaching companies how to prevent workers from organizing and how to get rid of existing unions.