Michael Parenti, The Face of Imperialism, 2011
Michael Parenti received his Ph. D. from Yale university. He is an internationally known award-winning author, scholar, and lecturer who addresses a wide variety of political and cultural subjects. He now serves on the advisory boards of Independent Progressive Politics, Education Without Borders, and the Jasenovic Foundation. He has currently written 23 books with topics on theocracy and other religious sins, democracy and economic power, imperialism and U.S, interventionism, empires, politics, terrorism and globalization, and fascism.
In this book, Parenti discusses how within the last half-century, American dominance in other countries and our military power have both dramatically expanded. He defines imperialism as the process whereby the dominant investor interests in one country bring to bear their economic and military power …show more content…
He suggests that since U. S. leaders have the power, they think that it gives them an inherent right to employ it on others. With this said, he says that empires do not just pursue power for power’s sake, but in fact that we are interested in gaining from them. Often times, countries perceived as poor and weak are actually quite rich with product and market but the people in the countries are poor because we exploit and pillage them. This is the imperial lie. In the eyes of Western Imperialists, countries need to stay at the level which they were at originally. The only people who should be continuing to rise is the ones who began that way, the dominant paradigm. Dominant paradigm is the ideology that explains how and why society functions as it does, the idea that we succeed because they
Michael Parenti received his Ph. D. from Yale university. He is an internationally known award-winning author, scholar, and lecturer who addresses a wide variety of political and cultural subjects. He now serves on the advisory boards of Independent Progressive Politics, Education Without Borders, and the Jasenovic Foundation. He has currently written 23 books with topics on theocracy and other religious sins, democracy and economic power, imperialism and U.S, interventionism, empires, politics, terrorism and globalization, and fascism.
In this book, Parenti discusses how within the last half-century, American dominance in other countries and our military power have both dramatically expanded. He defines imperialism as the process whereby the dominant investor interests in one country bring to bear their economic and military power …show more content…
He suggests that since U. S. leaders have the power, they think that it gives them an inherent right to employ it on others. With this said, he says that empires do not just pursue power for power’s sake, but in fact that we are interested in gaining from them. Often times, countries perceived as poor and weak are actually quite rich with product and market but the people in the countries are poor because we exploit and pillage them. This is the imperial lie. In the eyes of Western Imperialists, countries need to stay at the level which they were at originally. The only people who should be continuing to rise is the ones who began that way, the dominant paradigm. Dominant paradigm is the ideology that explains how and why society functions as it does, the idea that we succeed because they