Michael Parenti

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Michael John Parenti
New York City, New York, United States
NationalityAmerican
Education
Occupations
  • Political scientist
  • author
  • historian
  • activist
Notable work
  • Democracy for the Few
  • To Kill a Nation
  • Superpatriotism
  • Blackshirts and Reds
SpouseSusan Parenti
ChildrenChristian Parenti
Awards
SchoolMarxism
Institutions
 
ThesisEthnic and Political Attitudes: A Depth Study of Italian Americans (1962)
Doctoral advisorRobert E. Lane
Main interests
Socialism · Imperialism · Political economy · Ideology

Michael John Parenti (born September 30, 1933) is an American political scientist, academic historian and cultural critic who writes on scholarly and popular subjects. He has taught at universities as well as run for political office.

Marxist writings and lectures,[2][3] and is an intellectual of the American Left.[4][5]

Education and personal life

Michael Parenti was raised by an

Italian-American working-class family in the East Harlem neighborhood of New York City.[6] After graduating from high school, Parenti worked for several years. Upon returning to school, he received a BA from the City College of New York, an MA from Brown University and a PhD in political science from Yale University.[7] Parenti is the father of Christian Parenti, an academic, author and journalist.[8][9]

Career

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For many years Parenti taught political and social science at various institutions of higher learning, including at the University of Vermont. [citation needed] Eventually he devoted himself full-time to writing, public speaking, and political activism.[10]

His book Democracy for the Few is a critical analysis of U.S. society, economy, and political institutions.[citation needed] His book Blackshirts and Reds defended the Soviet Union and communist states of the 20th century from criticism, arguing that they were morally superior compared to capitalist states, that the problems of the Soviet Union were caused by the Russian Civil War and capitalist interference, and that "Left anti-Communist" and "pure socialist" critics failed to offer any alternatives to the Soviet Union's "siege socialism".[11]

In

Liberty Union Party; he came in third place, with 7.1% of the vote.[12][13] Parenti was once a friend of Bernie Sanders, but he later split with Sanders over Sanders's support for the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.[14][15]

In the 1980s, he was a visiting fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C.[16] In 2003, the Caucus for a New Political Science gave him a Career Achievement Award.[7] In 2007, he received a Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition from U.S. Representative Barbara Lee.[7]

He served for 12 years as a judge for Project Censored.[17] He also is on the advisory boards of Independent Progressive Politics Network and Education Without Borders as well as the advisory editorial boards of New Political Science and Nature, Society and Thought.[18] [19]

Appearances in media

Apart from several recordings of some of his public speeches, Parenti has also appeared in the 1992 documentary The Panama Deception, the 2004 Liberty Bound[20] and 2013 Fall and Winter documentaries[21] as an author and social commentator.

Parenti was interviewed in Boris Malagurski's documentary film The Weight of Chains 2 (2014) about the former Yugoslavia.[22] He was also interviewed for two episodes of the Showtime series Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, speaking briefly about the Dalai Lama (Episode 305 – Holier Than Thou)[23] and patriotism (Episode 508 – Mount Rushmore).[citation needed]

New York City-based punk rock band Choking Victim use a number of samples from Michael Parenti's lectures in their album No Gods, No Managers.[24]

Books

See also

Notes

References

  1. ^ "How Bernie Sanders, an Open Socialist, Won Burlington's Mayoral Election". jacobinmag.com. Retrieved January 8, 2022.
  2. ISSN 0885-4300
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  3. S2CID 147258248
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  4. ^ Lattin, Don (April 5, 2010). "Review: 'God and His Demons,' by Michael Parenti". SFGATE. Retrieved January 8, 2022.
  5. ISBN 978-1-4331-0813-6
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  6. ISBN 978-0-87286-482-5
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  7. ^ a b c "Michael Parenti – The Humanities Institute – The Humanities Institute". Scripps CollegeScripps College. April 17, 2018. Retrieved January 13, 2022.
  8. ISSN 2297-900X
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  9. ^ "Christian Parenti". John Jay College of Criminal Justice. January 31, 2018. Retrieved December 12, 2019.
  10. ISBN 0-87286-317-4
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  11. ^ "Worker's ice pick". The Anarchist Library. Retrieved July 3, 2023.
  12. ^ "Elections Results Archive". VT Elections Database.
  13. ^ Sanders, Bernie (1997). "You Have to Begin Somewhere". Outsider in the House.
  14. ^ Zeitlin, Matthew (June 13, 2019). "Bernie's Red Vermont". The New Republic. Retrieved October 5, 2021.
  15. ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: "Michael Parenti on Bernie Sanders". YouTube.
  16. S2CID 155444644
    . Retrieved January 13, 2022.
  17. ^ "Michael Parenti". Project Censored. May 24, 2015. Retrieved January 13, 2022.
  18. ^ Parenti, Michael. "The Michael Parenti Political Archive". Retrieved January 2, 2008.
  19. ^ "Political Scientist Michael Parenti To Speak At Muhlenberg". Muhlenberg College. Muhlenberg College. Retrieved August 8, 2023.
  20. ^ "Liberty Bound (2004)". BFI. Archived from the original on January 13, 2022. Retrieved January 13, 2022.
  21. ^ "Fall and Winter on iTunes". iTunes. December 1, 2013. Retrieved January 13, 2022.
  22. ^ "The Stars of the Film – The Weight of Chains 2010 – - Boris Malagurski films". The Weight of Chains. September 18, 2019. Retrieved January 13, 2022.
  23. ^ "Michael Parenti on Penn & Teller: Bullshit! (2005)". youtube.com.
  24. ^ Manner, Lauri (June 14, 2001). "Choking Victim – No Gods / No Managers". Punknews.org. Retrieved January 13, 2022.

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