You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
NOAM CHOMSKYYou have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
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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.
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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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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 Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment.
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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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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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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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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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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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If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‘healthy’ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations’ economic health.
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