I’m not one of those critics that believes U.S. foreign policy is confused, or stupid, or misinformed, or well-intentioned but it goes awry. I think it’s a brilliant policy filled with many brilliant, terrible, horrible victories. Michael Parenti Read Quote
I argue that one of the functions of a capitalist state is to defend capitalism from itself, to defend capitalism from the capitalists. Michael Parenti Read Quote
Julius Caesar was an aristocrat who sided with the Roman people. He’s not my hero, but he was one of a long line of what we’ll call ‘populares,’ which were popular leaders who tried to institute these reforms that the people were fighting for. Michael Parenti Read Quote