Suppose Vietnam could separate itself from the American dominated global system and carry out a successful social and economic development. Then that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Cuba forces in Angola gave a real shot in the arm to the liberation movements, and it also was a lesson to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The most interesting - in fact, inspiring - people I met there [Porto Alegre] are those who remain nameless: representatives of the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The lessons are, unfortunately, that a small weak country that is facing an extremely hostile and very violent superpower will not make… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Trump's principal policies make clear what's going to happen. This gives an opportunity. Right now it's going to take hard work, but… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Actually, my first article, it wasn't about the anarchists; it was about the fall of Barcelona and the spread of fascism over… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The labor movement had been pretty much killed in the 1920s, almost destroyed. It revived in the 1930s and made a huge… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Anarchism means all sort of things to different people but the traditional anarchists' movements assumed that there'd be a highly organized society,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is every likelihood that the Jihadi movement, much of it highly critical of bin Laden, could have been split and undermined… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I am not too happy with terms like “the left”, to be honest. And I don’t use it much….if by “the left”… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Unless that happens, unless you get, you know, kind of integration of activists' concerns and movements, it will be, each one will… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The major organizing centers, like the labor movement, have been severely weakened in the United States by policy. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people that form movements around particular commitments, like gay rights. It is important, but it does not… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A lot of association on the internet is highly constructive. There are people interacting, interchanging ideas, making plans, coordinating activities; take any… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In some ways, [the student anti-sweatshop movement] is like the anti-apartheid movement, except that in this case its striking at the core… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements. There wouldn't have been… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Tea Party movement itself is maybe 15, 20 percent of the electorate. It's relatively affluent, white, nativist. You know, it has… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The [Ronald] Reagan administration picked up the rhetoric of the anti-nuclear movement; they said "Yyeah, you're right." We have to eliminate nuclear… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The community itself didn't support the union. Now that's kind of interesting about [Barack] Obama, because Obama was supposedly a community organizer… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the late 19th century there was a major union organization, Knights of Labor, and also a radical populist movement based on… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't claim to know a lot about Mexico, but I did talk to quite a number of left Mexican intelectuals, and… — 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 Image
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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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 Image
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 Image
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