The Democrats have pretty much given up on the white working class. That would require a commitment to economic issues, and that's… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The neoliberal programs of the last generation have in fact been, and were intended to be, a pretty serious attack on democracy,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We don't use the term 'working class' here because it's a taboo term. You're supposed to say 'middle class,' because it helps… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A lot of people who voted for Trump, working class people, voted for Obama in 2008. They were seduced by the slogans… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The goal of the working class is liberation from exploitation. This goal is not reached and cannot be reached by a new… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't feel that there is anything deep in the political culture that prevents "educating the masses." I'm old enough to recall… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Policies are designed to undermine working class organization and the reason is not only the unions fight for workers' rights, but they… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Activism spawned by Sanders campaign is beginning to make inroads into electoral politics. Under Barack Obama, the Democratic Party pretty much collapsed… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“That's one of the reasons why, say, Canada, a very similar country, has a health care system and we don't. In Canada,… — 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
