It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
NOAM CHOMSKYConcentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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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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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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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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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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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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