{"id":36652,"date":"2026-01-25T20:33:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T04:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redphoenixnews.com\/?p=36652"},"modified":"2026-04-23T23:32:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T04:32:49","slug":"in-praise-of-michael-parenti-1933-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2026\/01\/in-praise-of-michael-parenti-1933-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Elogio de Michael Parenti (1933-2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Camilo Lazo | Presidente Nacional de la\u00a0Partido Laborista Estadounidense<\/a>\u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On Jan. 24, the heart of Michael Parenti ceased to beat.\u00a0It was a strong heart.\u00a0It was a heart filled with love for the poor, the oppressed, the marginalized, the wretched.\u00a0 It was a heart filled with hatred for tyrants and oligarchs, oppressors and fanatics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a red <\/em><\/strong>heart, through and through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a career spanning over half a century, Michael Parenti exposed the workings of capitalism, imperialism, and fascism.\u00a0Unapologetically socialist, proudly Marxist-Leninist, Comrade Michael stood on the side of revolution and liberation.\u00a0His books, Democracy for the Few<\/em>, Against Empire<\/em>, y The Culture Struggle<\/em>, to name but a few, placed him at the forefront of modern American political scientists.\u00a0 Blackshirts and Reds<\/em>, y The Assassination of Julius Caesar<\/em>, secured Comrade Michael a reputation equal to the finest modern and classical historians.\u00a0God and His Demons<\/em> tore the mask of hypocrisy off of Christian Nationalism.\u00a0Whether dressed in a suit and tie, a black shirt, a clerical collar, or a toga, no oppressor was safe from Michael Parenti\u2019s withering gaze and powerful mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Comrade Michael was no cloistered academic.\u00a0From anti-Vietnam War protests to contemporary struggles for economic and social justice, he stood at the forefront of progressive and peoples\u2019 movements.\u00a0The people have known few champions as passionate and committed as Michael Parenti.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael Parenti was a friend of the American Party of Labor.\u00a0In the early days of our Party, Comrade Michael was graciously and generously supportive of our efforts, granting us free use of his writings.\u00a0We in the APL disagreed with some of Comrade Michael\u2019s positions, and, we are sure, he with some of ours.\u00a0 But it is right and proper that comrades should disagree and debate, for that is the dialectic.\u00a0 That is the only way truth can be uncovered and action informed.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We in the American Party of Labor owe a great debt to Comrade Michael Parenti.  A debt we hope to repay by relentless struggle, and the determination that the worker\u2019s cause, Comrade Michael\u2019s cause, will emerge victorious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, we bow our heads in tribute to a peerless scholar, a righteous revolutionary, and a friend and comrade who inspired generations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael Parenti \u2013 Presente!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Camilo Lazo | National Chair of the\u00a0American Party of Labor\u2014 On Jan. 24, the heart of Michael Parenti ceased to beat.\u00a0It was a strong heart.\u00a0It..<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":40051,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,84,97],"tags":[224],"class_list":["post-36652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-labor","category-statements","category-us-news","tag-american-party-of-labor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenix.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/01-2026_parenti-1.jpg?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40052,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36652\/revisions\/40052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}