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“One of the girls read somewhere that a red flag was the proper symbol for the oppressed workers, and so they mounted one, and…

— Upton Sinclair

In the humanities and social sciences, and in fields like journalism and economics and so on, people have to be trained to be managers,…

— Noam Chomsky

Reagan was extreme. Beginning of his administration, one of the first things was to call in scabs - hadn't been done for a long…

— Noam Chomsky

Ronald Reagan in the US was not a particularly popular president, but after his death sectors of wealth and power created a huge propaganda…

— Noam Chomsky

You can see it in the worship of [Ronald] Reagan, which portrays him as somebody who saved us from government. Actually he was an…

— Noam Chomsky

The [Ronald] Reagan administration told the business world that they were not going to enforce the labor laws.

— Noam Chomsky

Government grew under [Ronald] Reagan. He was the strongest opponent of free markets in the post-war history among presidents. But it doesn't matter what…

— Noam Chomsky

Haitian rice farmers are quite efficient, but they can't compete with U.S. agribusiness that relies on a huge government subsidy, thanks to Ronald Reagan's…

— Noam Chomsky

“Respectable opinion would never consider an assessment of the Reagan Doctrine or earlier exercises in terms of their actual human costs, and could not…

— Noam Chomsky

The rise of what's called Islamic fundamentalism is to a significant extent a result of the collapse of secular nationalist alternatives which were either…

— Noam Chomsky

The labor movement had been pretty much killed in the 1920s, almost destroyed. It revived in the 1930s and made a huge difference. By…

— Noam Chomsky

Capitalism would self-destruct in no time. So the business classes have always demanded strong, straight intervention to protect the society from the destructive effects…

— Noam Chomsky