If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
NOAM CHOMSKYThere’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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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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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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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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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
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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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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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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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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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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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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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