In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
NOAM CHOMSKYLibertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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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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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
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That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
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There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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One 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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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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