Workers in different countries can easily be played off against each other. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Real wages for male workers in the United States are about what they were in the '60s. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Stakeholders - meaning workers and community - the CEO could just as well be responsible to them. This presupposes there ought to… — 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
Workers and their families may starve to death in the New World Order of economic rationality, but diamond necklaces are cheaper in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Worker ownership within a state capitalist, semi-market system is better than private ownership but it has inherent problems. Markets have well-known inherent… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The old-fashioned idea is that responsibility falls upon those who borrow and lend. Money was not borrowed by campesinos, assembly plant workers,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Second World War ended with a radicalization of the population in the United States and everywhere else, and called for all… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the 1960s, various parts of the population became energized and began to enter the public arena to call for the rights… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Caterpillar was quite important because that was the first manufacturing industry that used Reaganite strike-breaking techniques. They illegally called in scabs to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We should certainly not be perpetuating further harm to others or to the environment. Suppose that workers at ExxonMobil are trying to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Our current prison state has the dual effect of getting rid of a superfluous population of basically unskilled workers (with a close… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Like most terms of political discourse, socialism has more or less, lost its meaning. Socialism used to mean something. If you go… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Those who wish to change the world should have the best possible understanding of the world, including what is revealed by the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Private sector unionization is down to practically seven percent. Meanwhile the public sector unions have kind of sustained themselves [even] under attack,… — 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
[My father] came over as an immigrant and didn't know any English. He went to work at a sweat shop in Baltimore.… — 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
The capacity to transfer production elsewhere is a weapon against the Western workers. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Why should workers agree to be slaves in a basically authoritarian structure? They should have control over it themselves. Why shouldn't communities… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If workers are more insecure, that's very 'healthy' for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won't ask for wages, they… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
At the peak of the so-called great success of neoliberal economics, in 2007, right before the crash, non-supervisory workers were at wages… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Anton Pannekoek didn't encourage radical workers and other activists of the anti-Bolshevik left to see revolutionary potential in his work in astronomy,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In fact, what were called the socialist countries in Eastern Europe were the most anti-socialist systems in the world. Workers had more… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I had relatives in New York City who I stayed with. And in those days, the area from Union Square down Fourth… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
More generally, independent farmers had to be trained to become docile workers in the expanding industrial system. It was necessary to drive… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't even know if I ever knew - some sweatshop in Baltimore. I knew with my other relatives - some of… — 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
Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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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![“I had relatives in New York City who I stayed with. And in those days, the area from Union Square down Fourth Avenue had small bookstores, many of which were run by Spanish immigrants who'd fled after [Francisco] Franco's victory. I spent time in them, and also in the offices of Freie Arbeiter…” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/66f/noam-chomsky-42_anarchist_i-had-relatives-in-new-york-city-who-i-s_3008146.jpg)
![“I wrote an article about the marine landing [in Haiti] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come out two months later and I assumed by then, "of course, everybody knows." Nobody knew. There was a news report in the Wall Street Journal, in the petroleum journals, and…” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dc5/noam-chomsky-42_articles_i-wrote-an-article-about-the-marine-land_13341.jpg)
