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 CHOMSKYDissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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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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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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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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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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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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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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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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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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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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The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‘engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
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