"I am not too happy with terms like……" — Noam Chomsky
"I am not too happy with terms like “the left”, to be honest. And I don’t use it much….if by “the left” you mean people who are committed to peace and justice and freedom and so on, there can’t be elements of the left opposed to workers’ movement, at least under that definition."
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Noam Chomsky
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