In 2003, the Caucus for a New Political Science gave him a Career Achievement Award. In the 1980s, he was a visiting fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C. Parenti was once a friend of Bernie Sanders, but he later split with Sanders over Sanders's support for the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.

House of Representatives in Vermont as the candidate of the democratic socialist Liberty Union Party he came in third place, with 7.1% of the vote. In recent years he has addressed such subjects as 'Empires: Past and Present,' 'US Interventionism: the Case of Iraq,' 'Race, Gender, and Class Power,' 'Ideology and History,' 'The Overthrow of Communism,' and 'Terrorism and Globalization.' society,Įconomy, and political institutions and a college-level political science textbook published by Wadsworth Publishing. His book Democracy for the Few, now in its ninth edition, is a critical analysis of U.S. politics, culture, ideology, political economy, imperialism, fascism, communism, democratic socialism, free-market orthodoxies, conservative judicial activism, religion, ancient history, modern history, historiography, repression in academia, news and entertainment media, technology, environmentalism, sexism, racism, Venezuela, the wars in Iraq and Yugoslavia, ethnicity, and his own early life.

Parenti's writings cover a wide range of subjects: U.S. Parenti lectures frequently throughout the United States and abroad. His works have been translated into at least 18 languages. He is the author of 20 books and over 300 articles. Eventually he devoted himself full-time to writing, public speaking, and political activism. For many years Parenti taught political and social science at various institutions of higher learning.

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