Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
NOAM CHOMSKYDissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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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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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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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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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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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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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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That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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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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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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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 don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.
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