Roughly speaking, I think it's accurate to say that a corporate elite of managers and owners governs the economy and the political… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
...free enterprise, [is] a term that refers, in practice, to a system of public subsidy and private profit, with massive government intervention… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If Palestinian Authority refuse to join the US-run negotiations, their basis for support would collapse. They survive on donations essentially. Israel has… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As in the past, the costs and risks of the coming phases of the industrial economy were to be socialized, with eventual… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the major state capitalists economies, Europe and the US, it's low growth and stagnation and a very sharp income differentiation a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
[There is] is all part of the whole neoliberal shift in the economy. But the parties have shifted to the right. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“There's plenty of challenging, gratifying, interesting, productive workaround for people to do, and there are plenty of people who want to do… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Globalization is the result of powerful governments, especially that of the United States, pushing trade deals and other accords down the throats… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I was in Mexico City. It's a very pleasant city in many ways. It's vibrant, lively, pretty exciting society, but also depressing… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What is called 'capitalism'is basically a system of corporate mercantilism, with huge and largely unaccountable private tyrannies exercising vast control over the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The dominant propaganda systems have appropriated the term "globalization" to refer to the specific version of international economic integration that they favor,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Both political parties have moved to the right during the neoliberal period. Today’s New Democrats are pretty much what used to be… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Silicon Valley, after all, feeds off the existence of computers, the internet, the IT systems, satellites, the whole of micro electronics and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In our society, real power does not happen to lie in the political system, it lies in the private economy: that’s where… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Well, it depends which planned economies you mean. There are lots of planned economies―the United States is a planned economy, for example.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The economic system barely functions as it is—I mean, the contemporary economic system is a complete catastrophe, an absolutely catastrophic failure. For… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Before the 1970s, banks were banks. They did what banks were supposed to do in a state capitalist economy: they took unused… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The military has a huge role in the economy [of Pakistan] with big stakes and, as you say, it has constantly intervened… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
From the 1970s, there has been a significant change in the US economy, as planners, private and state, shifted it toward financialization… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
It’s a shameful moment for U.S. media when it insists on being subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent, aggressive state. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
There are questions as to whether it should even exist. Who should corporations be responsive to, the management of a corporation? Theoretically they are… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be - protect themselves. That's why you have state secret laws.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
The first thing you ought to do is verify what I present. Just because I say it doesn't make it true. So check it… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
I wrote an article about the marine landing [in Haiti] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come out two… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
American society is now remarkably atomized. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The left has a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
There's an interesting book about that called The Third Reich and the Ivory Tower, written by Stephen H. Norwood. It has a long discussion… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
This is class war on an international scale, and power is in the hands of those who control the international economic system. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
There are big, extremely irrational parts of the society, and they have now been mobilized politically by the Republican establishment, hoping that these people… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
There's plenty to criticize about the mass media, but they are the source of regular information about a wide range of topics. You can't… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
The 50,000 Korean mercenaries we had in Vietnam were professional killers and just massacred people outright. And the American army did plenty of that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
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