A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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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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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
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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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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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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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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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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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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 godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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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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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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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.
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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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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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