Tag: Chomsky
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Wage Slavery: A Quick History
Noam Chomsky Interview: History is Not Over, April 18, 1997: “Go back to the 1870s, the New York Times was denouncing wage labor. The standard of the Republican Party around 1870 was “We’re the party who opposes slavery and who opposes wage slavery.” The Republican Party, you know, we’re not talking about wild radicals. It…
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Defending the Welfare State: “Expanding The Floor Of The Cage”
Understanding Power (2002), Pgs. 344-346, “Defending the Welfare State”: Question: Noam, since you’re an anarchist and often say that you oppose the existence of the nation-state itself and think it’s incompatible with true socialism, does that make you at all reluctant to defend welfare programs and other social services which are now under attack from…
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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…
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Walter Lippmann – Father of Modern Journalism
Hi, I decided to find the original sources for many of Chomsky’s quotes from Lippmann’s works. Turns out Chomsky was right. Walter Lippmann (September 23, 1889 – December 14, 1974) was an American writer, reporter, and political commentator famous for being among the first to introduce the concept of Cold War, coining the term “stereotype”…
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10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth and Power
Requiem for the American Dream is a timely 75-minute teach-in by Noam Chomsky, the M.I.T. linguistics professor who has been a leading leftist political analyst, critic and writer for six decades. Mr. Chomsky, already the subject of several documentaries, focuses here on an election-season theme: financial inequality in America and what he calls its corrosive…
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Who Owns the World?
Noam Chomsky – Delivered at University of Massachusetts at Amherst, September 2012: When I was thinking about these remarks, I had two topics in mind, couldn’t decide between them — actually pretty obvious ones. One topic is, what are the most important issues that we face? The second topic is, what issues are not being…
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Will the Real Adam Smith Please Stand Up!
Excerpted from Class Warfare, 1995, pp. 31-36 DAVID BARSAMIAN: One of the heroes of the current right-wing revival… is Adam Smith. You’ve done some pretty impressive research on Smith that has excavated… a lot of information that’s not coming out. You’ve often quoted him describing the “vile maxim of the masters of mankind: all for…
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Pro-Life or Just Anti-Abortion Hypocrisy?
It’s pretty simply really:
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Plan Colombia by Noam Chomsky
Excerpted from Rogue States, 2000: In 1999, Colombia became the leading recipient of US military and police assistance, replacing Turkey (Israel and Egypt are in a separate category). Colombia receives more US military aid than the rest of Latin America and the Caribbean combined. The total for 1999 reached about $300 million, along with $60…