The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
NOAM CHOMSKYLibertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
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