Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
NOAM CHOMSKYDeath and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
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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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Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
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I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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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 drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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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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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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