If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‘healthy’ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations’ economic health.
NOAM CHOMSKYEven the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people.
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It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
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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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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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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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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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