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The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps for the many. The glittering mansion overlooks a vast sprawl of shanty towns, wherein a desperate, demoralized humanity is kept in line with drugs, television, and armed force.

~ Michael Parenti

Michael Parenti Capitalism Drugs Humanity Miltary Nature Television

As demonstrated in Russia and numerous other countries, when faced with a choice between democracy without capitalism or capitalism without democracy, Western elites unhesitatingly embrace the latter.

~ Michael Parenti

Michael Parenti Capitalism Democracy

The diseconomies of capitalism are treated as the public's responsibility. Corporate America skims the cream and leaves the bill for us to pay, then boasts about how productive and efficient it is and complains about our wasteful government.

~ Michael Parenti

Michael Parenti Capitalism Corporate America Corporatism Government Spending

No surprise then that the pure socialists support every revolution except for the ones that succeed.

~ Michael Parenti

Michael Parenti Communism Socialism

Official Washington cannot tell the American people that the real purpose of its gargantuan military expenditures and belligerent interventions is to make the world safe for General Motors, General Electric, General Dynamics, and all the other generals.

~ Michael Parenti

Michael Parenti American Foreign Policy Corporatism Imperialism Militarism United States
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