Michael Parenti
Michael Parenti (* 1933 in New York ) is a Marxist American political scientist , historian and author of 19 books and 250 articles. He received his PhD in Politics from Yale University in 1962 and has taught at several universities and colleges . Today he can be heard on political talk shows on radio stations. His works are known worldwide.
He was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for his book The Assassination of Julius Caesar .
criticism
Michael Parenti turned against the reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev because in his eyes they amounted to an introduction of capitalism . He criticizes the historiography of the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin .
In his book Blackshirts and Reds he deals, among other things, with the number of people who were executed at the behest of the Bolsheviks and the CPSU between 1921 and 1955 . He mentions a number of 799,455 victims. He cites the American historian J. Arch Getty as the source for this figure . The book also claims that most GULAG inmates were charged with non-political crimes such as B. Rape or murder were imprisoned. In his book, Parenti also emphasizes advances in the fields of literature, wages, health and women's rights that occurred during the years of Stalin's rule.
Michael Parenti is a sharp critic of Leon Trotsky . In his opinion this would have been the more authoritarian " Bolshevik " dictator.
Critics accuse Parenti of being an apologist for Stalin, even if Parenti states in his book that there has been political oppression and political murder in the USSR and that an overly positive view of the USSR is therefore not necessary.
In To Kill A Nation he describes military actions against Slobodan Milošević's Yugoslavia as war crimes. He also criticized the introduction of capitalism in the former Yugoslavia. He is accused (like Peter Handke ) of sympathy for Slobodan Milošević. Michael Parenti in no way denies the crimes of Serb soldiers.
bibliography
- 1969 - The Anticommunist Impulse
- 1971 - Trends and Tragedies in American Foreign Policy
- 1974 - Democracy for the Few (8th edition 2007)
- 1975 - Ethnic and Political Attitudes
- 1978 - Power and the Powerless
- 1989 - The Sword and the Dollar: Imperialism, Revolution, and the Arms Race
- 1992 - Make-Believe Media: The Politics of Entertainment
- 1993 - Inventing Reality: Politics of News Media
- 1994 - Land of Idols: Political Mythology in America
- 1995 - Against Empire
- 1996 - Dirty Truths
- 1997 - Blackshirts and Reds, Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
- 1998 - America Besieged
- 1999 - History as Mystery
- 2001 - To Kill A Nation, The Attack on Yugoslavia
- 2002 - The Terrorism Trap, September 11 and Beyond
- 2003 - The Assassination of Julius Caesar, A People's History of Ancient Rome
- 2004 - Superpatriotism
- 2006 - The Culture Struggle
- 2007 - Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader
- 2007 - »We want everything« - world power politics of the USA after the »end of history« (preprint) in: Michael Klundt (ed.): Capitalism versus barbarism? The historiography of the new world order. Cologne: PapyRossa, 2007. With contributions by Domenico Losurdo, Eric Hobsbawm , Jacques Pauwels and Arno Klönne. - ISBN 978-3-89438-363-3
- 2010 - God and His Demons
- 2011 - The Face of Imperialism
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Parenti, Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American political scientist, historian and publicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |