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Book cover for Jainism: An Introduction (I.B.Tauris Introductions to Religion)
The Kalpasūtra, a text from the second or first centuries BCE, is the first to list Mahāvīra as the 24th Tīrthaṅkara and to discuss the lives of some of the other Tīrthaṅkaras in detail.70 This text is publicly recited during Paryuṣaṇa, the ...more
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Michael Parenti
“In fact, the lands of Asia, Africa, and Latin America have long produced great treasures of foods, minerals, and other natural resources. That is why Europeans went through so much trouble to steal and plunder them. One does not go to poor places for self-enrichment. The Third World is rich. Only its people are poor—and it is because of the pillage they have endured.”
Michael Parenti, Against Empire

Carl W. Ernst
“But there is a sense in which early Arabic script was primarily a memory aid for readers who already knew the contents of the text. In many ways, the written text of the Qurʾan was inseparable from, and indeed relied upon, the authority of oral transmission.”
Carl W. Ernst, How to Read the Qur'an: A New Guide, with Select Translations

Michael Parenti
“Such “multiple sourcing” enables GM to ride out strikes in one country by stepping up production in another, playing workers of various nations against one other in order to discourage wage and benefit demands and undermine labor union strategies.”
Michael Parenti, Against Empire

Michael Parenti
“British imperialism did two things: first, it ended India’s development, then it forcibly underdeveloped that country.”
Michael Parenti, Against Empire

Michael Parenti
“North American and European corporations have acquired control of more than three-fourths of the known mineral resources of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. But the pursuit of natural resources is not the only reason for capitalist overseas expansion. There is the additional need to cut production costs and maximize profits by investing in countries with a plentiful supply of cheap labor.”
Michael Parenti, Against Empire

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