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MICHAEL PARENTI

REAL HISTORY

The Functions of Fascism

Michael Parenti is one of this country's most distinguished political scientists. His articles regularly appear in major newspapers and journals. He is the author of Democracy for the Few, Power and the Powerless, Inventing Reality, The Sword and the Dollar and the forthcoming Make Believe Media: The Politics of Entertainment. He is currently at work on a book about the Spanish-American War.

"Real History" is a series of presentations on important and controversial topics, many of which have been shrouded in myth. Most people are never exposed to real history. In school we usually don't even read history. We read history textbooks, mostly ones that avoid the underlying realities and propagate all sorts of myths that serve the powers that be and are harmful to those who might want to believe in truth and democracy. Those who dominate our vision of the past exercise a preeminent control over how we see the present and the future.

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