Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
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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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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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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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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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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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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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Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
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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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