Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader

Michael Parenti

City Lights Books, Sep 18, 2013 - HISTORY - 304 pages

Michael Parenti's most lucid and penetrating writings on power, history, politics and culture.

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This collection of political essays by American political scientist, historian and “recovering academic” Michael Parenti covers a wide range of topics from class history (including sub-topics of race ...

Contents

• Media Moments: 3
• Methods of Media Manipulation: 17
• Objectivity and the Dominant Paradigm: 31
• Repression in Academia: 40
• The Stolen Presidential Elections: 64
• How the Free Market Killed New Orleans: 75
• Conservative Judicial Activism: 84
• Why the Corporate Rich Oppose Environmentalism: 91
• Autos and Atoms: 98
• What Is to Be Done?: 104
• Racist Rule Then and Now: 118
• Custom Against Women: 125
• Thats Italian? Another Ethnic Stereotype: 139
• An EthnoClass Experience: 150
• The Blessings of Private Enterprise: 165
• A GUIDE TO CONCEPTS AND ISMS: 177
• The Myth of Neutrality: 179
• False Consciousness: 183
• Left Right and the Extreme Moderates: 188
• State vs Government: 196
• Democracy vs Capitalism: 209
• Socialism Today?: 221
• MONEY CLASS AND CULTURE: 229
• Capital and Labor an Old Story: 231
• Wealth Addiction and Poverty: 236
• Monopoly Culture and Social Legitimacy: 245
• The Flight from Class: 252
• DOING THE WORLD: 263
• Imperialism for Beginners: 265
• The Free Market Paradise Liberates Communist Europe: 280
• The Rational Destruction of Yugoslavia: 288
• To Kill Iraq 301 Good Things Happening in Venezuela: 312
• 33: 314
• A Word about Terrorists: 320
• THE REST IS HISTORY: 331
• Dominant History 331 Fascism the Real Story: 341
• 36: 343
• The Cold War is an Old War: 354
• The People as Rabble and Mob: 368
• Index: 385

About the author

Michael Parenti, PhD Yale, is an internationally known author and lecturer. He is one of the nation's leadiing progressive political analysts. He is the author of over 250 published articles and seventeen books. His writings are published in popular periodicals, scholarly journals, and his op-ed pieces have been in leading newspapers such as the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. His informative and entertaining books and talks have reached a wide range of audiences in North America and abroad.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader
• Author: Michael Parenti
• Publisher: City Lights Books, 2013
• ISBN: 0872866017, 9780872866010
• Length: 304 pages
• Subjects: HISTORY / United States / State & Local / General; History / United States / 21st Century; Political Science / Commentary & Opinion; Political Science / Essays; Political Science / Political Ideologies / General