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. . [A]ny history that deals with the efforts of the populace to defend itself from the abuses of wealth and tyranny is people's history . . . A people's history should be not only an account of popular struggle against oppression but an exposé of the -people's history that has prevailed among generations of mainstream historians. It should be a critical history about a people's , those who propagated an elitist ideology and a loathing of the common people that distorts the historical record down to this day.

Michael Parenti

. . [A]ny history that deals with the efforts of the populace to defend itself from the abuses of wealth and tyranny is people's history . . . A people's history should be not only an account of popular struggle against oppression but an exposé of the -people's history that has prevailed among generations of mainstream historians. It should be a critical history about a people's , those who propagated an elitist ideology and a loathing of the common people that distorts the historical record down to this day.

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Michael John Parenti (born September 30, 1933) is an American political scientist, academic historian and cultural critic who writes on scholarly and popular subjects. He has taught at universities as well as run for political office. Parenti is well known for his Marxist writings and lectures, and is an intellectual of the American Left.