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“The real danger we face is not from terrorism but what is being done under the pretext of fighting it.”

1 POLITICS AND ISSUES, The Terrorism Hype, p. 81
Dirty truths (1996), first edition

“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.”

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Origine: Blackshirts and Reds (1997), p. 58

“Caesar’s sin, I shall argue, was not that he was subverting the Roman constitution—which was an unwritten one—but that he was loosening the oligarchy’s overbearing grip on it. Worse still, he used state power to effect some limited beneﬁts for small farmers, debtors, and urban proletariat, at the expense of the wealthy few.”

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Michael Parenti libro The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People's History of Ancient Rome

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The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People's History of Ancient Rome (2003)

“The operational code is: we have a lot; we can get more; we want it all.”

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1 POLITICS AND ISSUES, Rollback, p. 46
Dirty truths (1996), first edition
Contesto: Every ruling class has wanted only this: all the rewards and none of the burdens. The operational code is: we have a lot; we can get more; we want it all.

“Conservatives insist that government should be " run more like a business." One might wonder how that could be possible, since”

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Origine: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 15, p. 267
Contesto: Conservatives insist that government should be " run more like a business." One might wonder how that could be possible, since government does not market goods and services for the purpose of capital accumulation.

“Marx said this, and so did Jefferson”

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Origine: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 17, p. 335
Contesto: All economic and political institutions are contrivances that should serve the interests of the people. When they fail to do so, they should be replaced by something more responsive, more just, and more democratic. Marx said this, and so did Jefferson. It is a revolutionary doctrine, and very much an American one.

“Even though the crime rate has dropped in recent years, the United States has more police per capita then any other nation in the world.”

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Origine: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 10, p. 173

“In the end I created a career of my own, concentrating on my writing and lecturing, reaching larger audiences than I would had I ended up with tenure and a full teaching load. It was Virginia Woolf who said that it is terrible to be frozen out of a sacred tradition-but even more terrible to be frozen into it.”

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5 MISCELLANY AND MEMORABILIA, Struggles in Academe: A Personal Account, p. 252
Dirty truths (1996), first edition

“To complain about how the media are dominated by liberals, Limbaugh has an hour a day on network television, an hour on cable, and a radio show syndicated by over 600 stations.”

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2 MEDIA AND CULTURE, The "Liberal Media" Myth, p. 98
Dirty truths (1996), first edition