Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
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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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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.
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Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
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