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> [Social and political issues in general seem to me fairly simple; the effort to obfuscate them in esoteric and generally vacuous theory is one of the contributions of the intelligentsia to enhancing their own power and the power of those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/social-and-political-issues-in-general-seem-to-me-fairly-simple-the/)

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