The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
NOAM CHOMSKYIt is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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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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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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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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NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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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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They come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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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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