Sunbird Books

“How odd that fewer police were needed in the communist police state than in the free-market paradise.”
― Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

“If the president on his visit to China had witnessed Chinese peasants eating from garbage cans, he almost certainly would have cited it as proof that communism doesn’t work. What does it prove when it happens in the capitalist success called America?’’52 OneofeveryfiveU.S.adultsisfunctionallyilliterate.Oneoffourinhabits”
― PARENTI Michael, Democracy for the Few: Eighth Edition

“Poverty kills far more people than all the wars in history, more people than all the murderers in history, more than all the suicides in history, not only does structural
violence kill more people than all the behavioral violence put together, structural violence is also the main cause of behavioral violence”
― James Gilligan

“At every step we are reminded that we by no means rule over nature like a conqueror over a foreign people, like someone standing outside of nature—but that we, with flesh, blood, and brain, belong to nature, and exist in its midst. . . .”
― Michael Parenti, Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader