Parenti, Michael.

  • Michael Parenti : Recorded 6/98 [capitalism Vs. Democracy]

    Michael Parenti speech about the oppression of unrestrained capitalism and the counter force of democracy; comparing the Roman Republic and Empire to present day United States history.

  • Michael Parenti/bernie Sanders

    Author, activist and political analyst speaks at the Independent Progressive Politics Summit in June 1998. Bernie Sanderss, the only independent Congressman elected to the House of Representatives and founder of the Progressive Caucus discusses grassroots organizing and the progressive agenda.

  • Crimes of the new world order / Michael Parenti.

    Michael Parenti gives a global portrait of Bush’s New World Order, which he argues is simply imperialism in its latest form. He points to the invasion of El Salvador by major United States firms to utilize cheap labor; the concentration of financial resources in the hands of the few, and its use to penetrate the…

  • Against psychohistory / Michael Parenti ; produced by Blair Zarubick.

    Professor Michael Parenti examines psychohistorians, who reduce historical phenomena to psychological motivations from the early life of leaders. He criticizes the work of several psychohistorians: Howard Laswell, Bruno Bettelheim, Louis Foyer, Victor Wolfenstein, and J.D. Barber. Their works, he argues, depoliticizes political reality in a politically selected way, for personality traits can have multiple roots…

  • Focus on the Americas / Blase Bonpane and Michael Parenti.

    Blase Bonpane and Michael Parenti discuss the domestic causes and repercussions of the Gulf War. They examine the use of chemical weapons by the United States, class interests of war, the selling of militarism to the American public, the inconsistant United States foreign policy concerning oppressed peoples, Arab nationalism as a threat to international corporate…

  • Origins of World War II / Michael Parenti ; produced by Blair Zarubick.

    Professor Michael Parenti examines the traditional explanations of World War II: 1) the evil of Hitler; 2) appeasement lead to the war; 3) Soviet Union’s unholy alliance with Hitler. In his analysis, he argues that: Hitler could have been stopped early, the but United States and the other allies thought he was doing a good…

  • The Functions of fascism / Michael Parenti ; produced by Blair Zarubick.

    Professor Michael Parenti examines the notion of fascism as a single ideology, and places it in specific historic and geographic contexts: Germany, Italy, Spain, and Japan. The common ideologies contained glorification of leadership, glorification of the nation state, glorification of military conquest, and propagation of folk mysticism and the hatred of others. Capitalists supported Fascist…

  • State of the state / Michael Parenti ; produced by Pam Burton.

    Parenti talks about the end of the Cold War, the current threat of war in the Persian Gulf, the global imbalances between the have and have nots, the savings and loan scandal, the hypocracy of George Bush, and the power elite.|STATE OF THE STATE / Michael Parenti| produced by Pam Burton. – Parenti talks about…

  • Relevance of Marxism / Michael Parenti.

    Michael Parenti presents an alternative view of events in Eastern Europe, 1988-1990. He argues that Marxism is not dead, and that underlying principles of Capitalism (namely profit at any cost) have not appeared in those countries. Accumulation of profit in Eastern Europe still means meeting the peoples’ needs. In the West, however, it is rational…

  • Media distortion and democratic struggle / Michael Parenti ; produced by Pam Burton.

    Parenti details the foundation and ongoing work for civil liberties and human rights in America. He uses humor to point out the hypocricies of managed media, the lack of diversity of opinion, and the power that is held by the people when they work together to create proceedural democracy. Parenti received his Ph.D. from Yale…