Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
NOAM CHOMSKYLibertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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The term ‘globalisation’ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.
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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 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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You 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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I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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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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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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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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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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