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The Culture Struggle Paperback – January 3, 2006

by Michael Parenti (Author)
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One of America’s most astute and engaging political analysts, Michael Parenti shows us that culture is a changing process and the product of a dynamic interplay between a wide range of social and political interests. Drawing from cultures around the world, Parenti shows that beliefs and practices are readily subjected to political manipulation, and that many parts of culture are being commodified, separated from their group or communal origins, to be packaged and sold to those who can pay for them. Folk culture is giving way to a corporate market culture. Art, science, medicine, and psychiatry can be used as instruments of cultural control, and even marriage, the "foundation of society," has been misused by heterosexuals across the centuries.
Using vivid examples and riveting arguments throughout, ranging from the everyday to the esoteric, and penned with eloquence and irony, The Culture Struggle presents a collection of snapshots of our time.
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  1. Print length
    144 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Seven Stories Press
  4. Publication date
    January 3, 2006
  5. Dimensions
    5.5 x 0.3 x 8.3 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1583227040
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1583227046
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“Michael Parenti is a towering and prophetic voice in American life. We need him now more than ever!” –Cornel West


“Michael Parenti has educated generations of Americans—including my own—on the merits of a radical world view and progressive politics. In The Culture Struggle, Parenti is at the top of his game. his arguments about the importance of culture and his debunking of the dominant ideology is masterful and written with precise and crystal clear prose that few other writers can approach, let alone equal.” –Robert W. McChesney

About the Author

MICHAEL PARENTI is a critically acclaimed author and an extraordinary public speaker. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Yale University and has taught at a number of colleges and universities, in the United States and abroad. He is the author of numerous books, including Superpariotism, The Assassination of Julius Caesar, and Inventing Reality.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Seven Stories Press; UNABRIDGED VERSION edition (January 3, 2006)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 144 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1583227040
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1583227046
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.1 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.3 x 8.3 inches
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Michael Parenti (Berkeley, CA) is the acclaimed author of more than twenty books, including, most recently, Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader; The Assassination of Julius Caesar; and The Culture Struggle. The New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post, the New York Review of Books, Harper's, The Nation, and Antioch Review, are among the countless publications that have praised Parenti's work. For further information, visit his Web site: michaelparenti.org

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  • James M.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Masterful discussion of the unavoidable relativity of culture/
    Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2018
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    Makes the point extremely well that we cannot avoid the relativity of culture as culture touches us constantly.
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  • M. A. Krul
    4.0 out of 5 stars An introduction to ideology
    Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2007
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    Michael Parenti's "The Culture Struggle" is quite short, but lively and written in a crisp and clear style. In this booklet, he discusses the role and function of culture within our societies as well as those of the past, showing how culture is a battleground of ideology. Parenti engages not just the role of ideology in science and in popular culture, but also in medicine, psychiatry, New Age and cults, marriage, and so forth, all issues relevant to current events.

    None of the things he points out will be at all new to anyone who is familiar with radical left critiques, but that does not mean this book is useless or preaching to the choir. Quite the opposite: I think it can play a good role as one of those books that one can give to friends or family members with very little political interest or awareness and to people who are not familiar with or good at reading academic style monographs, but who want to understand the leftist critique of our society. Parenti occasionally still uses terminology that might be difficult for readers of a less educated background (such as "plutocratic" and "monopolistic"), but generally the book is extremely easy to read and still makes a lot of good and important points. So, pass it on to your coworkers or grandparents and anyone else who could use a confrontation with a critical look at society.
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    Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2019
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  • Huge Ackman
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent read and incredibly accurate
    Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2018
    Michael Parenti is a brilliant author and historian. This book is a smorgasbord of different topics from race to sexism. Parenti challenges the dominant paradigm in society to make us think.
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