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Contrary Notions : The Michael Parenti Reader

by: Parenti, Michael

Contrary Notions : The Michael Parenti Reader

by: Parenti, Michael

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9780872864825
ISBN 10:
0872864820
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Copyright: 07/01/2007
Publisher: City Lights Books

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A powerful selection of Michael Parenti's most lucid and penetrating writings on real history, political life, empire, wealth, class power, technology, culture, ideology, media, environment, sex, and ethnicity. Also included are a few choice selections drawn from his own life experiences and political awakening. Parenti goes where few political observers dare to tread.

Introduction	p. ix
Through the Looking Glass
Media Moments	p. 3
Liberal Media Yet to Be Found	p. 7
Methods of Media Manipulation	p. 17
Objectivity and the Dominant Paradigm	p. 31
Repression in Academia	p. 40
Stealing Our Birthright
The Stolen Presidential Elections	p. 63
How the Free Market Killed New Orleans	p. 74
Conservative Judicial Activism	p. 83
Why the Corporate Rich Oppose Environmentalism	p. 90
Autos and Atoms	p. 97
What Is to Be Done?	p. 103
Lifestyles and Other People
Racist Rule, Then and Now	p. 117
Custom Against Women	p. 124
Are Heterosexuals Worthy of Marriage?	p. 129
That's Italian? Another Ethnic Stereotype	p. 138
Roots
La Famiglia: An Ethno-Class Experience	p. 149
Bread Story: The Blessings of Private Enterprise	p. 164
My Strange Values	p. 168
A Guide to Concepts and ISMS
Technology and Money: The Myth of Neutrality	p. 177
False Consciousness	p. 181
Left, Right, and the "Extreme Moderates"	p. 186
State vs. Government	p. 194
Democracy vs. Capitalism	p. 207
Socialism Today?	p. 219
Money, Class, and Culture
Capital and Labor, an Old Story	p. 229
Wealth, Addiction, and Poverty	p. 234
Monopoly Culture and Social Legitimacy	p. 243
The Flight from Class	p. 250
Doing the World
Imperialism for Beginners	p. 263
The Free Market Paradise Liberates Communist Europe	p. 278
The Rational Destruction of Yugoslavia	p. 286
To Kill Iraq	p. 301
Good Things Happening in Venezuela	p. 312
A Word about Terrorists	p. 318
The Rest is History
Dominant History	p. 331
Fascism, the Real Story	p. 341
The Cold War is an Old War	p. 352
The People as "Rabble" and "Mob"	p. 366
Index	p. 385
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Contrary Notions : The Michael Parenti Reader

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9780872864825

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