I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf 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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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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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
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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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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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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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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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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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Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
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But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
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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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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.
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