SUBSTACK (The Grayzone) - The life and work of Michael Parenti: a tribute with his son, Christian
Christian Parenti joins The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal to discuss the revolutionary life and legacy of his father, the dissident political scientist Michael Parenti, who died on January 24, 2026 at age 92.
Christian details how his father emerged from a working class family in East Harlem to become one of the country’s most outspoken Marxists, unapologetically defending socialist states across the globe while facing professional blacklisting and CIA surveillance. He surveys Michael Parenti’s major works, from “Democracy for the Few” to his groundbreaking study of corporate media, “Inventing Reality,” along with “To Kill A Nation,” which dismantled the Western propaganda deployed to justify NATO’s destruction of Yugoslavia. They also discuss his clash with fellow leftists Noam Chomsky and Alexander Cockburn, who glibly dismissed theories about a US intelligence role in JFK’s assassination. While Michael Parenti…Open