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| 2 | `Michael Parenti`,`The Anti-Communist Impulse (1970)`,`http://www.michaelparenti.org/books.html`,`Our fear that Communism might someday take over most of the world blinds us to the fact that anti-communism already has.` |
| 3 | `Michael Parenti`,`The 1% Pathology And The Myth of Capitalism`,`https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKyX7GNHYkQ&t=218`,`In every class society that's ever existed, the ruling element does not rule nakedly. They always adorn their rule with myths, themes and symbols to justify their position at the apex of the social pyramid.` |
| 4 | `Michael Parenti`,`The Nobel Peace Prize for War (2014)`,`https://www.commondreams.org/views/2012/10/18/nobel-peace-prize-war`,`For years the Dalai Lama was on the payroll of the CIA, an agency that has perpetrated killings against rebellious workers, peasants, students, and others in countries around the world. His eldest brother played an active role in a CIA-front group. Another brother established an intelligence operation with the CIA, which included a CIA-trained guerrilla unit whose recruits parachuted back into Tibet to foment insurgency. The Dalai Lama was no pacifist. He supported the U.S./NATO military intervention into Afghanistan, also the 78 days' bombing of Yugoslavia and the destruction of that country.` |
| 5 | `Michael Parenti`,`Blackshirts and Reds`,`http://www.michaelparenti.org/BlackShirts.html`,`Fascism historically has been used to secure the interests of large capitalist interests against the demands of popular democracy. Then and now, fascism has made irrational mass appeals in order to secure the rational ends of class domination.` |
| 6 | `Michael Parenti`,`Blackshirts and Reds`,`http://www.michaelparenti.org/BlackShirts.html`,`The overthrow of communism gave a green light to the unbridled exploitative impulses of Western corporate interests. No longer needing to convince workers that they live better than their counterparts in Russia, and no longer constrained by a competing system, the corporate class is rolling back the many gains that working people in the West have won over the years. Now that the free market, in its meanest form, is emerging triumphant in the East, so will it prevail in the West.` |
| 7 | `Michael Parenti`,`Blackshirts and Reds`,`http://www.michaelparenti.org/BlackShirts.html`,`Having never understood the role that existing communist powers played in tempering the worst impulses of Western capitalism and imperialism, and having perceived communism as nothing but an unmitigated evil, the left anticommunists did not anticipate the losses that were to come. Some of them still don't get it. ` |
| 8 | `Michael Parenti`,`Blackshirts and Reds`,`http://www.michaelparenti.org/BlackShirts.html`,`Putting an end to the population explosion will not of itself save the ecosphere, but not ending it will add greatly to the dangers the planet faces. The environment can sustain a quality of life for just so many people.` |