Michael Parenti World Quotations

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.

Capital requires protection, as do the institutions through which it operates. As capital expands its operations, the state that is associated with its protection must develop its capacity for autocratic control. Thus, the "Free World" increasingly resembles a dreary string of heartless police states.

Just as the power of the feudal aristocracy had to be broken in order for capitalism to emerge fully, so must imperialism and capitalism in Third World nations be overcome if a new system is to prevail.

Our fear that communism might someday take over most of the world blinds us to the fact that anti- communism already has.

People who think they're free in this world just haven't come to the end of their leash yet.