If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
NOAM CHOMSKYOne of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially.
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The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
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In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
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I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.
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While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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