Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 533)
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November 17, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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Vicious, brutal dictatorship. They’d immediately opened the doors to the top neoliberal economists. They all flooded in there to run the economy. It was perfect for them. It was a vicious fascist dictatorship. There was no dissent. (2/2)
November 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Vicious, brutal dictatorship. They’d immediately opened the doors to the top neoliberal economists. They all flooded in there to run the economy. It was perfect for them. It was a vicious fascist dictatorship. There was no dissent. (2/2)
For the masters, a powerful state [state capitalism] is required — insofar as they can control it and reduce the “underlying population” (Thorstein Veblen’s ironic term) to subordination and passivity. (2/2)
November 12, 2025 at 10:47 PM
For the masters, a powerful state [state capitalism] is required — insofar as they can control it and reduce the “underlying population” (Thorstein Veblen’s ironic term) to subordination and passivity. (2/2)
Or suppose that humans were removed from evaluation of the threats determined by automated missile-defense systems. As a shocking historical record informs us, that would be the end of human civilization. (2/2)
November 9, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Or suppose that humans were removed from evaluation of the threats determined by automated missile-defense systems. As a shocking historical record informs us, that would be the end of human civilization. (2/2)
Source: znetwork.org/zmagazine/go...
Government Involvement with Science And Art
As a graduate student at Penn State, I had made it almost a requirement to read at least three or four Noam Chomsky books a year. If you read enough
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October 31, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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When scientific agriculture comes in, it destroys it and brings in Western concepts of agriculture: high use of fertilizer, other inputs, to deal with a decline in yields. So science isn’t simply what we do in an MIT laboratory. (3/3)
October 31, 2025 at 2:56 AM
When scientific agriculture comes in, it destroys it and brings in Western concepts of agriculture: high use of fertilizer, other inputs, to deal with a decline in yields. So science isn’t simply what we do in an MIT laboratory. (3/3)