Michael Parenti: Capitalism vs. Reality (2015)

Springfield, Illinois, 6th October 2015.
This took ages to upload and the audio might be a bit loud or quiet at some points, sorry.

[@AntonioGarmsci-cy5vt]

Dr. Parenti is the greatest, his work facilitated my change from a working class Conservative to a leftist.

[@godoflight558]

leftist*

[@isorokudono]

He only affirmed my conservatism.

[@isorokudono]

@@godoflight558 Proving only morons are on the left.

[@MalcH]

Roland Deschain careful with who you call a moron - you misspelled "conservative" in your comment.

[@Philly7Eagles]

😅😅😅😅

[@T4SelNiNO]

Parenti is a great man. If you don't already own "blackshirts and reds" buy it asap

[@BasedYeeter42]

What does it deal with? Is it that good?

[@T4SelNiNO]

мяёCняоиїC918 It's very good. It's about the overthrowing of the USSR

[@BasedYeeter42]

Interesting. Could you provide a link?

[@T4SelNiNO]

мяёCняоиїC918 I'm on mobile right now so unfortunately not. Go to Amazon and search Michael parenti you will find it there

[@BasedYeeter42]

Alright thanks comrade ☭

[@tryignan]

It's very sad to see the clear mental degradation from Parenti's earlier speeches to the ones he did more recently, which were the final ones before he retired from public life due to dementia. It's heartbreaking to see such an intelligent man, hampered by his own mortal body.

[@CommieApe]

Its sad but its also beautiful that he dedicated his finite time here to fighting for the dispossessed and downtrodden. Id be proud to accomplish a tiny fraction of what he has.

[@jrshield7793]

Parenti has forgotten more about the crimes of the American empire than 99.9% of Americans young or old, have ever even had an inkling about in the first place. Go Michael Parenti!

[@sidDkid87]

it, his mental degradation, *_is_* noticesble, but it should be pointed out that he had been on this planet for 82 years when he gave this lecture - it takes nothing away from his body of work - a brilliant mind, I'm still learning from him - *_Sláinte!_* 💪☘️🍻

[@stutzbearcat5624]

Parenti is like Le Bron James - At 80-85% he still CRUSHES everybody else. I've been following him since the 1980s his lectures the were REALLY SOMETHING TO BEHOLD!!

[@elsantiago4725]

That is the problem: To be or not.

[@incoldblood975]

I'm new to watching Dr. Parenti. I had heard some of his works cited in other channels I watch. Now I'm watching as many lectures as I can. The passion he speaks with, the depth of knowledge, and his ability to speak on a level that is so relatable to everyone. You don't need to have a degree or read too much theory (not saying you shouldn't) to understand the points he's trying to convey. Him and Dr. Wolfe have become 2 of my favorites. I can't get enough of his lectures. Ps. After watching his lectures, I'm pretty sure the CIA is sabotaging Dr. Parenti's microphones.

[@harrykersey5151]

🎉 you might think me BSC the French showed how you force their hand , well in their case it was head😮but the rich ain't a gonna budge one inch untill they see one or more of their investment buddies head Rollin down the street while their bank Account clicks To O on the Stock Exchange sounding . Mark my words it's gonna take something just that bizarre to wake these thieving motherfu_kers up talk about "WOKE " that will pretty much define and coin the phrase . You recon ? My dollar to your dime will get some heads r

[@harrykersey5151]

🎉 you might think me BSC the French showed how you force their hand , well in their case it was head😮but the rich ain't a gonna budge one inch untill they see one or more of their investment buddies head Rollin down the street while their bank Account clicks To O on the Stock Exchange sounding . Mark my words it's gonna take something just that bizarre to wake these thieving motherfu_kers up talk about "WOKE " that will pretty much define and coin the phrase . You recon ? My dollar to your dime will get some heads r

[@delete_delete]

youtube.com/@themichaelparentilibrary?si=x4MAkG0PGRZGvEjl

[@josemarti2084]

Always appreciate watching some Parenti

[@debralegorreta1375]

I always take my Parenti with a glass of Galiano. You ought to try it. Afterwards, I appreciate some Osso Bucco and some Zabaglione with a cup of Asti Spumante to round things off. How about you?

[@Viva_la_natura]

@@debralegorreta1375 really?

[@dedg0st]

had the pleasure of having him speak at my school in 2013. great person, great comrade.

[@играман-й5ц]

You have been blessed.. too bad i ve not found about him 18-20 years ago ( used to libe in California 96-2000)///

[@CommieApe]

Soo lucky!

[@symbolsarenotreality4595]

Parenti is one of the few legitimate modern academics to coherently challenge capitalism.

[@gninja92]

peter joseph, if you can dissaciate him form the zeitgeist film, and look at his lectures and talks you will notice he challenges it even more than parenti. But parenti does a fine job especially since he visited these nations

[@il9043]

It is good you respect his knowledge and application of society, BUT... "one of the few" is NOT correct. There are many more out there, but they cannot be heard BECAUSE of the right-wing monopoly of the media.

[@gninja92]

can you send me some names? Also why are the sjw crowd constantly accused of being socialist. they don't appear socialist at all, i feel like the right wing especially the mgtow people are looking for any and every thing they can think of to viliffy anything they dont like so they have started to combine their enemies into one to make it easier to oppose

[@umax333]

Richard D. Wolff, Slavoj Zizek, Noam Chomsky, Mark Fisher..

[@gninja92]

okay, i will ook into what those guys are about. but here's a question americans often say that during soviet rule citizens could not legally leave the country or any country part of ussr. Is that really true? Can americans visit ussr countries and go back home?

[@henryberrylowry9512]

"We live in an oligarchy, but with the humidity it feels like a dictatorship." Judah Friedlander

[@oswarz]

I discovered Dr. Parenti a number of years ago. Where is he now? We need his voice more than ever.

[@drewhunkins7192]

He's still around but he is getting older. He's a godsend; I've been reading him since the early 1990s. My favorite books by him: "Power and the Powerless", "Inventing Reality", "Blackshirts and Reds", "To Kill a Nation", and "The Assassination of Julius Caesar".

[@allthelittleworms]

unfortunately he's retired from public speaking due to health problems, but he's still kicking. I hope he's doing well.

[@Vastilious]

@@allthelittleworms isnt he going to make a book cosmic "consicuouness and communism''

[@allthelittleworms]

@@Vastilious I didn't know that, but thanks for telling me. I'll have to look into it

[@drewhunkins7192]

Parenti's a godsend; I've been reading him since the early 1990s. My favorite books by him: "Power and the Powerless", "Inventing Reality", "Blackshirts and Reds", "To Kill a Nation", and "The Assassination of Julius Caesar".

[@highlonesomed]

Michael Parenti is one of my favorite people. If it weren't for him I'd probably still be a traditionalist fascist listening to bad neofolk, looking for Jews under my bed. Ughhhhh god I was a fucking moron.

[@ujean56]

I can think of only a few lecturers that leave me with as much intellectual satisfaction as Micheal Parenti. Thanks for this video. It's what the world needs now.

[@samuelrosander1048]

Gold: "It is because people are imperfect that you don't build a system that feeds their imperfections and harms their perfections."

[@captainfreedom3649]

1:37:34 "Why aren't these people being shot?" *few seconds later* NO NO NO the older he gets the more honest he is...

[@dopaminey9946]

This speech is more relevant now in 2020. In fact, I hear his points on Progressive Utubes sites almost word for word. Also his speeches from 1988, still more relevant now! Chomsky is a marvel, but he is more dense and more appealing to the more educated; being university educated, I still felt I had to 'learn' how to read him. Parenti is a great intellectual, too, but he uses the language of the public to explain the complex workings of society. I appreciate his clarity on the Capitalist Class, his raw truth and his sense of humour. And he knows Bernie better then than many who support him today!

[@surrealistidealist]

Such a great talk, and despite how relevant each Parenti talk is to each other, he really never gets repetitive. ❤

[@stutzbearcat5624]

Yes!!!!

[@thomaskirkpatrick1134]

His Books are Superb!Bravo Dr. Michael!

[@anti-skub2164]

6:47 Parenti begins

[@Hardcoreforliife]

When will parenti return

[@GolfBaller]

@@Hardcoreforliife Sadly I don't think he's in the best of health these days. He's fought long and hard his entire life. He deserves some rest at this point I think.

[@adrianjasso8835]

Thank you

[@allthelittleworms]

@@GolfBaller I agree, bless him

[@ThePeaceReport]

I first discovered Christian Parenti on Chris Hedges’ show On Contact. I’m so glad I now know the Parenti’s. Valuable researchers and speakers for the anti-imperialist movement.

[@raymondfranklin724]

Parenti is a wealth of knowledge!!

[@AgentRafa]

Damn I can't find that clip:-(

[@justgivemethetruth]

This is Michael Parenti, not Christian.

[@gninja92]

i found him through a video called "Socialism has worked" at the ending the poster played parenti's cuba speech, now im falling in love. no homo. lol

[@deanrao7554]

I discovered both Michael and Christian Parenti twenty years ago on the Pacifica radio station KPFA. I even had a couple of books signed by Michael. I'm glad that they're still active.

[@Darklord1201FTW]

1:38:40 exactly people are for socialism but not for the word because of the capitalist propaganda. If you then ask them what socialism is they would have no idea and spout some ridiculous propaganda

[@Chombork]

There's a reason why the meme exists, "communism is when the government does things, and the more things the government does, the more communister it is," because people (Americans particularly) actually believe that.

[@Viva_la_natura]

If they only knew Albert Einstein was a socialist? Who knows that propaganda runs deep

[@ВладимирМалышев-ч3й]

@@Chombork Unfortunately, in practice this really happened - power in the USSR was seized by a small group of careerists (traitors to communism) who began capitalist reforms in 1957, and in 1991 successfully completed them and actually destroyed the USSR, thereby postponing the collapse of capitalism for at least half a century. But what you say is also true, we just know a little more about our country than the Americans. It is also true that any experience of socialist revolutions brings us closer to the goal, even in spite of such great mistakes that were in the USSR.

[@reginaldmcnab3265]

So true! They hate it but they don’t know what it is.

[@Darklord1201FTW]

@@reginaldmcnab3265 yep!

[@laura1415]

Thanks for all the effort you made to offer us this video. Great work!

[@virginiabrowning4323]

Thanks for taking the time to put this up. I know people were bugging you to get it all up. We're very lucky you took the time to put up the small bit you did at first and for the rest of it too. There are so many good videos from the past of MP. I hope they're saved all together somewhere.

[@sidDkid87]

*_"I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth; I am a citizen of the world"_* ~ Eugene Debs

[@thomaskirkpatrick1134]

Bravo Dr. Michael Parenti!!!

[@Jordan-uz9me]

Capitalism Vs Reality Parenti Vs Microphone

[@Merudinnn]

The fact that even all these years later he still can't get the microphone to respect him is honestly incredibly humorous and endearing to me tbh lol

[@thewilderfanclub7896]

A hero of this world. God bless him

[@allypoum]

Love Parenti & appreciate the upload. Know I'm late to the party so probably don't need to tell you about the normalization filter in Audacity & other free audio apps. It sorts the sound volume issues.

[@turquoiseafro1520]

"It is because people are imperfect that you don't build a system that feeds their imperfections and harms their perfections. That people who wanna help, do things to make it fair and square, they get unrewarded, they often get punished whereas the people who pursue money in the most treacherous ways, they get benefitted. And you're telling me that we can't do without them." - Michael Parenti

[@sofiawaqasi5947]

He had a much softer voice back in the 1980's, he's a little harder to listen to now, but he's still a genius!

[@slorter10]

I have learnt so much from this man a true human!

[@alexrsuarez1]

When he speaks its music to my ears.

[@Yourismouter]

great talk and Q&A especially on Bernie Sanders. Love Michael Parenti, I need to stockpile on his books, he's soo underrated and deserves to be more widley interviewed but so much of the Pacificas, Democracy Nows, Intercepts and so fourth are part of the problem and want to airbrush him.

[@Wagon_Lord]

Chad Parenti vs Virgin Chomsky

[@Hardcoreforliife]

RT

[@mcl6406]

It's not difficult to vote in America. It's only difficult to find someone worth voting for.

[@justgivemethetruth]

This is pure gold ... I love Michael Parenti.

[@martinijazz9]

51:28 Parenti is very right about The Great Depression.

[@Jackzay90]

This man stayed commie during the 90's. that is fucking is insane. He's an absolute hammer.

[@jakethemistakeRulez]

Is this the most recent Michael Parenti talk? I can't seem to find anything more recent...

[@yashrajwadalkar5220]

Exactly

[@anonfrank546]

Robespierre and The Committee For Public Safety(i..e. voting on who would lose their heads everyday) imho was more an effect than a cause . The Terror started several years after the Revolution in 1789 , around 1793 if memory serves me . The cause was the pressure , aggression and violence of internal counter revolutionaries which was substantial : the church, provincial nobility(outside of Paris) and uneducated peasants, and outside threats, aggression and violence and incursions from the Old Regime type Kingdoms of Prussia, Austria, Great Britain and so on . Not at all agree with terror to strike fear at simple peasants against the Revolution(fact is most of the Terror was the guillotining of mostly small fry . Louis IX, Marie Antoinette, Madame Du Bovary, and a few other high heeled nobles were in the minority to lose their heads . Most of the Nobility, Military Generals, officers, French Army in Paris had to join the Revolution to save their own necks) . It should have been more directed at those who wanted to crush the revolution . When things settled down, Robespierre couldn't curb his enthusiasm and his head was lopped off by his own committee for public safety(ironic term , lol)

[@SithCelia]

I'm still fairly new to actual leftist politics and so far I'm really digging Parenti's accessible, adorably humorous speeches.

[@anakyn2010]

If you're new, Parenti is a great starting point. I waded through a bunch of confusing stuff before I found him. I've been enjoying listening to Yanis Varoufakis as well for more recent content. Michael Parenti's son, Christian is also interesting and he talks a lot about climate change as it relates to markets and violence etc.

[@mikeyschilling8834]

41 capitalists really disliked this. Too bad their voice is more powerful than the 1.5k or so who liked it...

[@Gigika313]

Sad part is they have no capital, just defending their oppressors

[@mistersquare7327]

I admire this man.

[@martinijazz9]

1:15:15 for the comment on Bernie Sanders

[@debralegorreta1375]

The top tax bracket for unearned income needs to be taxed at 100%.

[@samtheman686]

Starts at 6:58

[@vivarusia3845]

Anyone else think it was super weird to hear someone ask him what we can do to combat capitalism and all he suggests is worker collectives?

[@comrademartinofrappuccino]

Agreed a global overthrow of capitalism would make more diffrence, collectives/cooperatives are a short term solution can easily be destroyed

[@brianlacy8870]

he was certainly more tired / seeing his age ... might've been a factor....

[@itzenormous]

Well, worker cooperatives would remove the Capitalist from the picture. So, No!! I don't think that's weird. It isn't the final step, we indeed do need the state, at least in some administrative capacity, and in order to make the transformations in society that would lead to a communal living structure. But eventually, as Marx theorized, once True Communism is realized, there will eventually be a "withering away of the state," as it will no longer be needed.

[@bugsephbunnin4576]

He's an 85 year old sended from God himself, he's tired. If you ask to 1986's Michael Parenti he would say Revolution.

[@GalacticNovaOverlord]

@@bugsephbunnin4576 yep

[@thefunbuns1]

I love this man but I hate how he conflates public services and welfare programs with socialism in this lecture, I know he knows better and is just doing this for the particular audience he's in front of but damn

[@haraldisdead]

How is he almost 90?!

[@GoldandAppel]

Just saw The Panama Deception! WOW!

[@MrMunashii]

Thank you, Mr Parenti

[@turquoiseafro1520]

"The development of false consciousness is much more clever"

[@turquoiseafro1520]

We have to stop crediting capitalism for the nice things the demos (people) secured in spite of capitalism. - to paraphrase the other guy sitting with Parenti

[@johnsmith5139]

ah the pleasure of skipping the intro guy. ahhhhh

[@shurikenmiasma]

Leftöver Crack brought me here.

[@TheBigstan77]

For the Good the Bad and Leftover Crack.

[@toasterdestodes8034]

Thank you very much

[@mohammedmunassar4747]

تبتر اليد التي اساءت اليك ان كان هذا سيرضيك فعندما نقارع اعداءنا لا نلجا الي اليك فشكرا يامن اضاءت الطريق امامنا

[@pambennett8967]

I would like the elite rich to be in jail for life

[@markmahan38]

I rather see them dead and safely out of reach of doing their breed of EVIL!

[@julieopp]

So hatred is your answer? Jealousy is a very ugly trait. Just because you are not rich doesn’t make others who are, by default, bad people by default. The corporations, yes, but they are not human. As humans we have given them the strength to grow, so we need to look in the mirror to see who’s largely to blame for their unstoppable growth. Then change the system so the growth halts. Hating a whole group of people is what allowed hitler to get away with killing millions of innocent people.

[@milap.1616]

@@julieopp Corporations are run by board of Directors. Board of Directors usually all human. That makes corporation being human entity, run by small amount of humans (usually 15 or 20) who exploit labor force of other humans and rule without consent of their employees. That's a very strong argument used by elite "They hate us because they envy us." This argument to me sounds as an insult. Im a socialist and anybody who envy capitalist class is my enemy, no matter of their current status. Socialists see current system of exploitation as highly immoral. Goal is to delegitimitize private ownership and rights to own labor of others. We see these people as criminals and hold them as regards. Same as you could see a slave owner as a criminal or feudal lord being immoral. So one would want to put them in jail, another - send to angels. During revolutions human nature works its way. French revolution that brought capitalism chopped heads of feudal lords and bolshevic Revolution of 1917 in Russia created red terror. No jails, just piles of dead bodies. Than, when Revolution was over and all kulaks dead, new peaceful and socially friendly society emerged. So go figure; pain of humiliation and poverty breeds hate, hate liberates! It's why capitalism uses old trick - Owner loves his subjects! Our modern system socially designed to avoid possible revolutionary change from below.

[@pambennett8967]

Julie Opp no I don't hate them. Maybe I should have said in hospital until rehabilitated ... which would likely befor life

[@GalacticNovaOverlord]

@@julieopp if the forces of good win, there will be 3 options for the elite classes- integrate and join, lose everything and be rehabilitated or terminated. Removing elites is justified anywhere.

[@armchairradical2665]

I have recently discovered, first, chomsky, and now parenti. Does anyone have any other suggestions?

[@tannermaddox3450]

Howard Zinn has some good talks too kzbin.info/www/bejne/qJjdc2Ntl5eksNU His book “People’s History of the United States” is great too

[@robstewart4702]

For sure, try Chris Hedges.

[@DeadManAnimations]

1:37:24 favorite part

[@debralegorreta1375]

The problem is not the monetary system. The problem is the profit mode of production.

[@Gigika313]

The system is the problem

[@BreezeTalk]

We love you Parenti

[@larrysmith2636]

It depends on what the meaning of the word "is" is. Socialism for the rich is a right. Anything but feudalism for the rest is a sin.

[@dothesick]

1:30:32 ohh Parenti, that’s why you are my true papa.

[@piratealeks6865]

Lmao

[@mls_33]

This shit had be cracking up 😂

[@Turdfergusen382]

The state not ratifying the constitution without the bill of rights part blew my mind.

[@larrysmith2636]

Democracy- Some walk between the raindrops, some are sought for spoil and prey. Some gather to gawk, some circle like sharks in chummed waters, some walk on by. This is the law and the order. This is just-us. Have a nice day.

[@markmahan38]

Ok another brilliant thinking women here at the end of this video. It is too bad I don't know who she is. Because I address her issue and concerns about doing away with a monetary system. If this women's question is a burning interest for you. Please consider looking at my videos on KZbin. It is under my name from comments. With the orange circle with the letter M. I answer her question in detail. Can't tell you the title of the video right off. But if you watch my videos I give many examples of how to combat issue talked of on this video. But not in abstract terms but solid detailed proposals that can be applied. Without a monetary system, using the real economy. Of people their intellect, imagination, innovations, and all of it collimating into a hommoginus collective community of parity and co-operation.

[@tripe2004]

Around 1:20:30 in the Q&A he mentions someone getting killed by a lone assassin, it sounds like he might say John Lennon, is that who he is referring to? or someone else?

[@perseus570]

he specifically name drops john Lennon shortly after that actually

[@piratealeks6865]

At about 20:15 he mentions the Jungle... that was one of the things that radicalized me

[@matthewstone1362]

"Radicalised" the word itself defines the terms of the struggle, in so much that it's "radical" to realise the system is destructive and that public ownership of the means of production is for the betterment of all. When you have to start from a "radical" view the argument is lost imo.

[@sentientnatalie]

Everybody, please take note: 1:30:44

[@symbolsarenotreality4595]

In place of a monetary system one could utilise science, mathematics, logic, ethics and democracy It would be a much more complex system with each aspect of each individual and group measured in terms specific to each aspect rather than the capitalist monetary system where all values are forcibly generalised into one value ie money, which while having its own mathematical internal consistency, is based on arbitrary functions. #fractalpolarisation

[@markmahan38]

Check me out on KZbin. I talk directly about what you have touched upon. While many speak of your thoughts of doing away with money. Not too many have an actual plan on how a system without money can function. I DO. As I have actual plans to start fighting climate catastrophes & eco destruction. Talk and thinking about the problems we share collectively is a wonderful thing. But possibly solutions based on the how to fix the problems so many of us now recognize is real. Is real ACTIONS and progress. Proggress we all so desperately need to address here and now, if not yesterday. As the saying goes actions speak louder than words. Something the Republicans and the insane right wing know how to use to their advantage. A lesson we should emulate. And that emulation is in their forceful actions and words to get what they want. I do not speak of their bigotry, hypocrisy, and general insane misdirected focus of hate and fear. I speak of their willingness to threaten physical harm and taking actions when they feel they are not getting what they want. Their denial of their truths, in the face of object facts and realities. We must denie their subjective truths forcefully with equal measures of threats & ACTIONS. That is what is called for. Or we can try uselessly to find middle ground(though we see no chances of such). We can appeal to a non existent common value. Meanwhile we suffer under greater and greater harm minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day, week by week, month by month, and year by year. As the decades by decades that stretches into centuries and millenniums. And the deaths, destruction, pillaging, plundering, theft, stolen intellectual, emotional,and physical degradation piles up like thousands of Mount Everests. We're the slow and pervasive crumbling of common foundations of morals, ethics, principles, honor, and community is so moldering,. That we lose the clarity of what they mean. In the haze of grey zones, that makes us more and more the image of the monstrous controllers of the system that we call LIFE, but actual is devoid of real LIFE.

[@schoonovernicholas]

Not sure if youtube let's you do this, but if the owner of this channel would like the high pitched ringing in this video removed, message me and I can send you a cleaned up version.

[@aargut]

7:20 talk starts

[@michaelvaughn2287]

History is written by the victor imagen that this guy is a genius !!! So this guy attacks the empire that not only let's him but says its your duty to point out whats wrong instead of just letting the rot spread . This genius mistake though is he thinks this is saying its your duty to tair down . GENIUS !!!!

[@yawn1025]

Papa Parenti ♥️

[@haraldisdead]

The idea of the government building something as revolutionary as the freeway, but the modern equivalent, and just giving it to the people, for free.... It's unimaginable. We're like the so-called barbarians looking at the achievements of the past, wondering what kind of society could make something like that.

[@codyhunt5477]

What was name of the foundation mentioned at 6:20

[@cordcutter]

Was this his final public appearance?

[@sidDkid87]

6:55 … *ladies and gentlemen, Michael Parenti* … (you’re welcome)

[@kristofftaylovoski60]

Painful but true, read the "Mission Statement" of any current retail turdburglar corporation for a living example...

[@williaminus6545]

My God, what a wordy introduction. No wonder I hated school so much.

[@jared_r]

1:15:15 is the best thing on the internet.

[@pietroaretino6390]

Too bad Bernie is a hack now.

[@GalacticNovaOverlord]

@@pietroaretino6390 what's a "hack". I would say he is pacified, but not a hack

[@alexdoerofthings]

What book is this talk based on? I can’t find it.

[@brianlacy8870]

none particularly ... tho he references a few....

[@HallyVee]

Hang on i thought Upton Sinclair's book was fiction?

[@brianlacy8870]

The Jungle is based on real events. Ditto Dickens' works

[@calebrobinson4873]

1:30:30 had me laughing so hard omfg

[@debralegorreta1375]

A nation founded on lies is doomed.

[@trevorsmith8950]

Guy asking the question about 1:40:30 is right. His question was - how can programs like social security and public utilities be socialist enterprises if they exist in and do not challenge the capitalist system? These types of things were, broadly speaking, won as a concession to the working class after mass civil unrest (particularly from FDR). Ultimately, these public institutions serve to sustain capitalism because they quelled that unrest just enough to let the capitalist class continue to exist. One would think that the most fundamental aim of a socialist enterprise would be to abolish capitalism as a system, but, for Parenti, it basically amounts to being a 501c3, apparently.

[@plutoprincess777]

12:20 notes

[@plutoprincess777]

1:02:02 notes

[@plutoprincess777]

2:06:43 notes

[@tripzville7569]

IN A NUTSHELL. The BIG problem we have is that every system we have has over time developed into an entity that protects itself from critical thinkers and those who wish to change things for the betterment of all humanity.

[@listeniolistenio5160]

0:02 slim shady

[@Miguel_El_Chileno]

The United States was founded (as a Union of the 13 original Colonies/Provinces in America of the British Empire that later became States/Commonwealths after Independence and) as a Republic, not a popular democracy, based on the same institutions as the ancient Roman Republic, ruled by a selected Senate representing the wealthy (an Oligarchy and Plutocracy) leaders of the States, that were educated and wealthy landed nobility who owned african slaves,

[@AdnanKarabatic]

why dont you cut on this guy?!

[@BuckleGeoffrey]

Thomas Richard Robinson Barbara Garcia Gary

[@thewickedwitchofse8998]

Voting in this system gives you one or the other faction of the SAME RULING CLASS whose competition for theft is the only differing outcome. Who cares about "voting" in this system? I like Parenti's books so far, I've read four of them, but this lecture has so far not been helpful. He should not waste time talking about voting in what is a spectator sport where two teams are competing to WIN and we're just here for the spectacle.

[@GalacticNovaOverlord]

Yeah, his prior speeches are much better

[@elonmusksellssnakeoil1744]

Parenti is dead wrong about the nation debt. The debt is our surplus, and every single time it has been paid down, without exception, a financial catastrophe ensued, without exception.

[@Unfamous_Buddha]

Debt is our GNP.

[@pillbox1240]

21:10 Democracy s orgins

[@RAddisonpeAce-WaRRioR]

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[@johnellis5768]

Capitalism is competition carried to the ultimate conclusion, with everyone enriched upon the misery of the next one less intelligent, everyone worshiping the next one more intelligent.

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6:57

[@bnpixie1990]

Parenti @ 6:58

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