Michael Parenti Internet Archive

(1933-2026)

Michael Parenti was an American Marxist historian, political scientist, and prolific author whose work focused on class struggle, media hegemony, and anti-imperialism. Best known for seminal works like Democracy for the Few and Blackshirts and Reds, Parenti was a leading "people's intellectual" who famously bridged the gap between academia and the labor movement. His analysis consistently exposed the capitalist state's role in managing both domestic exploitation and global empire, making him a central figure in modern Marxist-Leninist and anti-war thought.

Works

The Bogey of the Revolution [Commonweal Magazine Vol.88 No.14] (June 21, 1968)

The High Cost of Empire [Original PDF] [The Progressive Magazine] (November 1981)

Is Nicaragua More Democratic Than the United States? [Original PDF] [CovertAction Information Bulletin No.26] (Summer 1986)

Bush's Splendid Little War [Original PDF] [CovertAction Information Bulletin No.36] (Spring 1991)

Kozy with the Klan (1992)

Dividends Are Not Royalties: The SAT and Surplus Value [Monthly Review Vol.45 No.5] (October 1993)

Imperialism 101 (1995)

Myths of "Humanitarian" Intervention [Against the Current No. 59] (November/December, 1995)

Free Speech - At a Price (1996)

Hidden Holocaust, USA (1996)

The JFK Assassination: Defending the Gangster State (1996)

Rational Fascism (1997)

Keeping the Rich Invisible: How Census Bureau Hides the Super-rich [Against the Current No. 74] (May/June, 1998)

Yugoslav Sojourn: Notes from the Other Side (January 2000)

The Super Rich Are Out Of Sight (January 2000)

The Media and their Atrocities (May 2000)

Defying the Sanctions: A Flight to Iraq (January 2001)

Monopoly Media Manipulation (May 2001)

Terrorism Meets Reactionism (October 2001)

Global Rollback After Communism [Original PDF] [CovertAction Quarterly No.72] (Spring 2002)

Media Moments (December 2002)

To Kill Iraq (May 2003)

The Demonization of Slobodan Milosevic (December 2003)

Good Things Happening in Venezuela (May 2005)

In the Reactionary Era of "No Alternative" [Monthly Review Online] (Jul 26, 2005)

Custom Against Women [ZNetwork] (Mar 2, 2006)

Mystery: How Wealth Creates Poverty in the World [ZNetwork] (Sep 28, 2006)

Friendly Feudalism: The Tibet Myth (January 2007)

The Stolen Presidential Elections (May 2007)

Globalization and Democracy: Some Basics [Common Dreams] (May 25, 2007)

Gender Savagery in Guatemala [Common Dreams] (Jul 08 ,2007)

Mother Teresa, John Paul II, and the Fast Track Saints [PDF] (Oct 22, 2007)

Bad Boys, Nasty Boys: Out of the GOP's Closet [Common Dreams] (Feb 06, 2008)

Dubious Design [Common Dreams] (Apr 11, 2008)

Afghanistan, Another Untold Story [PDF] (Dec 02, 2008)

Capitalism's Self-Inflicted Apocalypse [Common Dreams] (Jan 21, 2009)

North Korea: "Sanity" at the Brink [PDF] (Jun 20, 2009)

The Honduras Coup: Is Obama Innocent? [PDF] (Jul 08, 2009)

Italian American Identity: To Be or Not To Be [PDF] (Aug 27, 2009)

The Rational Destruction of Yugoslavia (2010)

What Do Empires Do? [PDF] (Feb 13, 2010)

Cuban Prisoners, Here and There, with Alicia Jrapko [Monthly Review Online] (Apr 15, 2010)

Pedophiles and Popes: Doing the Vatican Shuffle [PDF] (May 10, 2010)

Death and Profits: The Utility Protection Racket [Common Dreams] (Oct 14, 2010)

Money Is Still the Name of the Game [PDF] (Dec 09, 2010)

The Mafia and Me [PDF] (Jan 20, 2011)

Profit Pathology and Disposable Planet [PDF] (Feb 27, 2011)

Class Warfare Indeed [PDF] (Oct 02, 2011)

Occupy America [PDF] (Nov 09, 2011)

Free-Market Medicine: A Personal Account [PDF] (December 2011)

Iran and Everything Else (2012)

Free Market Health Care: True Stories (Jan 2012)

Reflections on Politics and Academia: An Interview with Michael Parenti (June 2012)

The Nobel Peace Prize for War [PDF] (Oct 18, 2012)

A Terrible Normality (Jan 30, 2013)

Requiem for a Dominatrix (April 2013)

Eating Horses in Paris (Feb 28, 2013)

The Sarin Mysteries [ZNetwork] (Oct 2, 2013)

I Have a Dream, a Blurred Vision (November 2013)

The JFK Assassination: Defending the Gangster State (November 2013)

What's A Slum? (2014)

Ukraine and Regime Change (2014)

85 Billionaires and the Better Half [Common Dreams] (Feb 18, 2014)

1918: On When a War Ended (Though Others Would Follow) [PDF] (Oct 27, 2014)

A Long Time For Killing [ZNetwork] (Sep 23, 2015)

The Lost Women [ZNetwork] (Dec 26, 2015)

Secondary Literature

The Time Has Come: End All Aid to Apartheid Israel [Signatory] (Socialist Action Vol.6 No.4, April 1988)

Hoist on their own petards, by Dragan Plavsic [Book Review] (International Socialism No. 91, Summer 2001)

Roman history from below?, by Neil Faulkner [Book Review] (Summer 2004)

Michael Parenti, The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People's History of Ancient Rome, by Chris Gray [Book Review] (Revolutionary History Vol. 8 No. 4, 2004)

External Links

The Michael Parenti Political Archive [Personal Web Archive]

The Michael Parenti Library a video collection of speeches and lectures [YouTube]

Maintained by: Gal Y.