I mean the reason the sit-down strikes struck such fear in the hearts of management was that they knew that a sit-down strike was just one step short of taking over the factory.

There is no western concern for issues of aggression, atrocities, human rights abuses and so on if there's a profit to be made from them

The internet, since it is publicly created, ought to be publicly controlled.

The best defense against democracy is to distract people.

For a while, after the Second World War, when there was strong support for labor, this was done subtly.

You know, people talk about [Richard] Nixon's "madman theory." We don't really know much about that. It was in memoirs, by somebody else.

The senate was wealthy people and it wasn't elected, it was chosen through legislatures, which themselves were under private influence, powerful influence. They were remote from the population and that's where power was suppose to reside.