Michael Parenti: Does Capitalism Work?

Capitalism Isn't Working - Anti-cuts March

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with Michael Parenti
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Previously posted Oct. 12, 2010
December 28, 2022

buddhagem on August 07, 2007

The myth that capitalism works conveniently ignores reality. In this video, political scientist and activist Michael Parenti debunks this popular myth.

[Note: This is a short clip from a longer talk: Dr. Michael Parenti: Terrorism, Globalism and Conspiracy (2002)]


Michael Parenti is an award winning, internationally known author. His most recent books are The Face of Imperialism (a critique of the U.S. global empire; 2011) and Waiting for Yesterday: Pages from a Street Kid’s Life (an ethnic memoir about his early life in Italian Harlem; 2013); and Profit Pathology and Other Indecencies. For further information about his work, visit his website: www.michaelparenti.org.

From the archives:

How Capitalism Controls You

Michael Parenti: How To Think About Class

William I. Robinson: Capitalism’s Structural Crisis and the Global Revolt

Michael Parenti: Globalization, the New Imperialism

What is Wage Slavery? by The Anti-Social Socialist

Mystery: How Wealth Creates Poverty in the World by Michael Parenti

Michael Parenti: These Countries Are Not Underdeveloped, They Are Overexploited (1986)