Chomsky: I choose to live in what I think is the greatest country in the world, which is committing horrendous terrorist acts and should stop. http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0205/30/ltm.01.html …
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Chomsky: "The first thing I do in the morning is read The New York Times. It's the best newspaper in the world. You want some general sense of what's going on, that's where you go."https://youtube.com/watch?t=1h27m57s&v=ea1p1eevcfo …
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Chomsky: The collapse of the Soviet Union is a small victory for socialism in my opinionhttps://youtube.com/watch?v=K4Tq4VE8eHQ&t=83 …
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Chomsky: In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society. In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/interview-with-noam-chomsky-the-united-states-has-essentially-a-one-party-system-a-583454.html …
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Chomsky, 2012: Guantanamo is still open, but it’s unlikely that serious torture is going on at Guantanamo. There is just too much inspection. There are military lawyers present and evidence regularly coming out...https://www.counterpunch.org/2012/12/12/an-interview-with-noam-chomsky-on-obamas-human-rights-record/ …
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Chomsky: So giving microcredit loans to women is a very smart thing to do. It's not the end of everything, but it has paid off. It's a good capitalist approach. This is pure capitalism, actually, ...1/2
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...much purer than the U.S. economy. It's real capitalism. The U.S. economy is state-based to a large extent. 2/2 https://books.google.ca/books?id=QiGfE-iEimIC&pg=PA84 … h/t
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Chomsky: There's nothing about socialism in Marx, he wasn't a socialist philosopher—There are about 5 sentences in Marx's work that refer to socialism. He was a theorist of capitalism.https://twitter.com/aiukliAfrika/status/1245153748382617602 …
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Chomsky on voting for Bloomberg 2020: Definitely. Not to do so is in effect a vote for Trump, a path to disaster.pic.twitter.com/4t5ZNffjEQ
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Chomsky on Lenin: Western and also Third World intellectuals were attracted to the Bolshevik counterrevolution [sic] because Leninism is, after all, a doctrine that says that the radical intelligentsia have a right to take state power and to run their countries by force, ... 1/2
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... and that is an idea which is rather appealing to intellectuals. 2/2https://www.greanvillepost.com/2018/10/06/left-anticommunism-the-unkindest-cut/ …
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Chomsky on MIT/Swartz: The number of dissenters that are pushed aside is almost universal, either they’re in jail… if it’s Latin America they get their heads blown off. In the US they’re marginalized in various ways. The US is a free country…https://youtu.be/O0D0E42AA4I?t=5337 …
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Chomsky: …there is more protection for freedom of speech [than in Britain]… But essentially they can’t get jobs, they’re marginalized, they’re vilified. All sort of things, not much punishment, frankly, but, it’s real. h/t Tarziehttps://ohtarzie.wordpress.com/2014/01/31/passing-noam-on-the-way-out-part-2-chomsky-vs-aaron-swartz/ …
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Chomsky: There was more socialism in Western Europe than there was in [Soviet] Russiahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2XaaP_Mf2E …
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Chomsky on Dialectics, Marxism, Polysyllabic words https://yesthereisnojustice.tumblr.com/post/6652270612/theory …pic.twitter.com/dQpHHiFiZY
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Chomsky on Palestinehttps://mobile.twitter.com/aiukliAfrika/status/1272789452633649153 …
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NYT: Have you considered leaving the United States permanently? Chomsky: No. This is the best country in the world. https://chomsky.info/20031102/
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Chomsky: "Associated with the loose antifa array are fringe groups that have initiated the use of force in ways that are completely unacceptable and are a welcome gift to the far right..." 1/2https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/noam-chomsky-antifa-us-alt-right-us-state-donald-trump-white-nationalist-a8044526.html …
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Chomsky: "...and the repressive forces of the state, while also providing some justification for the absurd claim that antifa is comparable to the far-right forces." 2/2
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Chomsky signed this letter with Bari Weiss, packed full of vague references to right wing propaganda >...professors are investigated for quoting works of literature in class; a researcher is fired for circulating a peer-reviewed academic study;... https://harpers.org/a-letter-on-justice-and-open-debate/ …
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other notable signatories alongside Noam Chomsky: Yascha Mounk, David Brooks, Anne Applebaum, J.K. Rowling, Francis Fukuyama, Steven Pinker, David Frum, Malcolm Gladwell, Matt Yglesias, Fareed Zakaria Chomsky is the "left wing" of this libertarian capitalist project.
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Chomsky on not supporting BDS: I mean you might as well boycott the United States https://youtu.be/UbA0pUK808I h/t
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Chomsky: "If I had one newspaper I'd read the NYT, because the coverage is so much broader and deeper..." Interviewer: "But you were damning of the NYT" Chomsky: "As I said, it's selective criticism. What reporters report is usually quite accurate."pic.twitter.com/toJqVWLe5j
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Noam Chomsky calls Donald Trump the "most dangerous figure in human history" (as part of his overall campaign to get people to Vote Blue)https://twitter.com/TheYoungTurks/status/1296481368164184069 …
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Noam Chomsky: "So maybe it’s the worst government in human history. [...] So the crazy North Koreans started producing missiles and nuclear weapons again. [...] So, yeah, maybe the most horrible regime in human history." h/t
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Noam Chomsky on his sources of funding:https://mobile.twitter.com/yashalevine/status/592547690950459392 …
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This thread became an essay:https://mobile.twitter.com/RodericDay/status/1342284000803647488 …
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