Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
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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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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on.
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If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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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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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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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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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 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
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