Frases de Michael Parenti

Michael Parenti es un historiador e intelectual estadounidense destacado por su historia de las clases populares y la crítica de los medios masivos de comunicación.

Parenti recibió su doctorado en ciencias políticas en la Universidad de Yale y ha sido profesor en diversas universidades, colleges y otras instituciones educativas. Es autor de casi una veintena de libros y ha publicado más de 250 artículos , tanto en publicaciones académicas, periódicas y medios de comunicación. Sus libros han sido traducidos a cerca una docena de idiomas. Parenti también ofrece conferencias en campus universitarios de los Estados Unidos, y sus alocuciones y comentarios son retransmitido tanto dentro de su país como en el resto del mundo. Su libro, El asesinato de Julio César, fue nominado para el premio Pulitzer. Wikipedia  

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Michael Parenti: Frases en inglés

“Our fear that Communism might someday take over most of the world blinds us to the fact that anti-communism already has.”

Michael Parenti

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)

“Profits are what you make when not working.”

Michael Parenti

Fuente: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 2, p. 9

“The two party electoral system performs the essential function of helping to legitimate the existing social order.”

Michael Parenti

Fuente: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 11, p. 179

“The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.”

Michael Parenti

1 POLITICS AND ISSUES, Creating The Poor, p. 21
Dirty truths (1996), first edition

“Those who control the wealth of this society have an influence over political life far in excess of their number.”

Michael Parenti

Fuente: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 12, p. 203

“One does not have to be a Marxist to know there is something very wrong in this society.”

Michael Parenti

4 POLITICAL THEORY AN CONSCIOUSNESS, Political Science Fiction, p. 231
Dirty truths (1996), first edition

“When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed.”

Michael Parenti

5 MISCELLANY AND MEMORABILIA, Struggles in Academe: A Personal Account, p. 248
Dirty truths (1996), first edition

“There is a century-old saying, "The dollar votes more times than the man."”

Michael Parenti

Fuente: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 13, p. 222

“Maintaining silence about a dirty truth is another way of lying, a common practice in high places.”

Michael Parenti

2 MEDIA AND CULTURE, The Invisible Bloodbaths, p. 132
Dirty truths (1996), first edition

“It may come as a surprise to some academics, but there is a marked relationship between economic power and political power.”

Michael Parenti

Preface to the Sixth Edition, p. viii
Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition

“The mass media are class media.”

Michael Parenti

2 MEDIA AND CULTURE, Fabricating a "Cultural Democracy", p. 107
Dirty truths (1996), first edition

“It is not Socialism that subverts democracy, but democracy that subverts capitalism.”

Michael Parenti

Fuente: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 17, p. 320

“You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when you stray that you feel the restraining tug.”

Michael Parenti

2 MEDIA AND CULTURE, Some Call It Censorship, p. 150
Dirty truths (1996), first edition

“The dirty truth is that many people find fascism to be not particularly horrible.”

Michael Parenti

1 POLITICS AND ISSUES, Fascism In a Pinstriped Suit, p. 32
Dirty truths (1996), first edition

“The media have been tireless in their efforts to suppress the truth about the gangster state.”

Michael Parenti

3 CONSPIRACY: PHOBIA AND REALITY, The JFK Assassination I, p. 159
Dirty truths (1996), first edition

“The peculiar danger of executive power is that it executes.”

Michael Parenti

Fuente: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 14, p. 259

“The rich have grown richer, but their tax rate has declined. The poor have grown poorer, but their taxes have increased.”

Michael Parenti

Fuente: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 6, p. 81

“Conservative pundits have a remarkable amount of free speech.”

Michael Parenti

1 POLITICS AND ISSUES, Free Speech-At A Price, p. 83
Dirty truths (1996), first edition

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