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Michael Parenti on Capitalism

1933–2026 United States

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The slums are not the problem, they are the solution; they are the way capitalism deals with the surplus people of a market economy.

Democracy for the Few (2010)

It is ironic that people of modest means sometimes become conservative out of a scarcity fear bred by the very capitalist system they support.

Democracy for the Few (2010)

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

Democracy for the Few (2010)

The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps for the many. The glittering mansion overlooks a vast sprawl of shanty towns, wherein a desperate, demoralized humanity is kept in line with drugs, television, and armed force.

Against Empire (1995)

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.

Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism (1997)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Michael Parenti (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.