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.
NOAM CHOMSKYLibertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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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 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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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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They come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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