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More Quotes by Noam Chomsky
Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party.
Neoliberal democracy. Instead of citizens, it produces consumers. Instead of communities, it produces shopping malls. The net result is an atomized society of disengaged individuals who feel demoralized and socially powerless. In sum, neoliberalism is the immediate and foremost enemy of genuine participatory democracy, not just in the United States but across the planet, and will be for the foreseeable future.
The press is owned by wealthy men who only want certain things to reach the public.
It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They’re totalitarian institutions - you take orders from above and maybe give them to people below you. There’s about as much freedom as under Stalinism.
Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?
If voting could actually change anything, it would be illegal.
Governments will use whatever technology is available to combat their primary enemy - their own population.
The best defense against democracy is to distract people.
There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.
If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.
