Bakunin’s Prediction: A Quick History on Using the “People’s Stick”
According to Chomsky, there exists a prediction from the world of the social sciences that ever came so dramatically true. The prediction is from Mikhail Bakunin, everyone’s favorite Anarchist 🙂 Very perceptively, Bakunin predicted that the rising class of intellectuals in both liberal democracies and authoritarian states will come to identify themselves as a specialized […]
Propaganda: Eward Bernays and Harold Lasswell
Hi, I decided to source Chomky’s quotes from Bernays and Lasswell. Turns out Chomsky was right. Edward Bernays (November 22, 1891 ? March 9, 1995) was an Austrian-American pioneer in the field of public relations and propaganda, referred to in his obituary as “the father of public relations”. Bernays was named one of the 100 […]