Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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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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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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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 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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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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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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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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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
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There’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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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 pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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