Superpatriotism

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Summary: typical leftist rubbish
Review: boresome, uninspiring marxist-leninist diatribe. only hard core commies or brain dead college kids will like this one.

if you have read michael moore or al franken you've read parenti. Previous reviewers have called this book/author brilliant and unbiased. Here is a quote from the "brilliant and unbiased" parenti regarding president bush:

"corrupt but affable draft dodging billionaire cokehead alcoholic"

parenti's version of a real or true patriot is the following:

"real patriots want worker controlled enterprises and public ownership, not-for-profit production without parasitic private investors making a penny"

my guess this guy is a card carrying member of the communist party of the USA. btw, "comrade mikie" regularly attends and speaks at commie seminars.

someone should remind these clowns the world has tried the dehumanizing brutal communist ideology, and guess what mikey?

it didn't work!

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Summary: 2 bad reviews 1 reviewer ??
Review: Comparing Micheal Parenti and Michael Moore is an insult to Dr. Parenti's work. If you don't agree with his opinions tell us why, don't just call him a communist. You should read this book regardless of who you follow, it is thought provoking. Nice technique, posting multiple reviews for books you disagree with. Repeat something enough and it becomes true in the minds of those who listen. "They load the clip in omni color then pack the nine and fire at primetime, sleeping gas every home is like alcatraz. No escape from the mass mind rape play it again, and rewind the tape. Then play it again and again until their mind is locked in. Believing all the lies that they're telling you buying all the products that they're selling you." Happy reading

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Summary: Review of Super Patriotism
Review: Parenti's latest work questions everything and anything. The reader will learn what superpatriotism actually is and why it is so pervasive in America. Parenti argues that not only is superpatriotism a social disease but it is endorsed by those who are hypocrites such as President Bush and his administration. This book is not left or right wing but rather shows how things really work. Parenti also delves into the concept of Two Americas, Plutocracy, Superpatriotism in sports, and a history of George W. Bush's war on terror which Parenti argues is going in the wrong direction.

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Summary: Look around
Review: Superpatriotism is a brief summation of thoughts and ideas that are not exclusive to Michael Parenti. He is effective in presenting the idea that the people of the USA should, perhaps, wake up and take a look at the country and think clearly about things.

Superpatriots are, in Parenti's estimate, those who stand, often blindly, in defence of anything done under American auspices, and those who back the president regardless of rational argument. Superpatriots are not 'bad' people--rather, Parenti illustrates that it is a dangerous, arrogant tendency, and one that does not benefit the citizenry.

While many people want to believe that the realm of accepted debate in this country is 'serious', there are some who rightly point out that the 'serious' debate about American power and influence is anything but, and that defenders of the faith are successful not in enlightening people, but in indoctrinating them, narrowing the spectrum of acceptable thought, and neutralizing any dissenting forces.

There are some who may read this book and think Parenti is a 'Communist', say, throwing around terms that are divorced from reality but are successful in connoting effective imagery (Communist = USSR = bad), but this is hardly serious at all, and is an example of the extent people will go to avoid thought.

The book is short, but as a summation of some of the ideas of dissent that are finding a larger and larger audience in America today, it is valuable.

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Summary: Everyone in America Needs to Read This
Review: This is a brilliant book. With his customary lucid style, careful research and humor, Parenti delivers a desperately-needed palliative to all the paranoid hysteria and ignorance that keeps the plutocrats in power. This timely, disturbing and fascinating book is a must-read if there ever was one.