Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader
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Michael Parenti's most lucid and penetrating writings on power, history, politics and culture. Aurora Online Parenti communicates his message in an accessible, provocative, and historically informed style that is unrivaled among fellow progressive activists.
Introduction ixThrough the Looking GlassMedia Moments 3Liberal Media Yet to Be Found 7Methods of Media Manipulation 17Objectivity and the Dominant Paradigm 31Repression in Academia 40Stealing Our BirthrightThe Stolen Presidential Elections 63How the Free Market Killed New Orleans 74Conservative Judicial Activism 83Why the Corporate Rich Oppose Environmentalism 90Autos and Atoms 97What Is to Be Done? 103Lifestyles and Other PeopleRacist Rule, Then and Now 117Custom Against Women 124Are Heterosexuals Worthy of Marriage? 129That's Italian? Another Ethnic Stereotype 138RootsLa Famiglia: An Ethno-Class Experience 149Bread Story: The Blessings of Private Enterprise 164My Strange Values 168A Guide to Concepts and ISMSTechnology and Money: The Myth of Neutrality 177False Consciousness 181Left, Right, and the "Extreme Moderates" 186State vs. Government 194Democracy vs. Capitalism 207SocialismToday? 219Money, Class, and CultureCapital and Labor, an Old Story 229Wealth, Addiction, and Poverty 234Monopoly Culture and Social Legitimacy 243The Flight from Class 250Doing the WorldImperialism for Beginners 263The Free Market Paradise Liberates Communist Europe 278The Rational Destruction of Yugoslavia 286To Kill Iraq 301Good Things Happening in Venezuela 312A Word about Terrorists 318The Rest is HistoryDominant History 331Fascism, the Real Story 341The Cold War is an Old War 352The People as "Rabble" and "Mob" 366Index 385
