The Second World War had really devastating effects for much of Europe. It really didn't take them very long to reconstruct state capitalist democracies because it was in people's heads. There were other parts of the world that were pretty much devastated and they couldn't do it; they didn't have the conceptions in their mind. A lot of it is human consciousness.
Noam ChomskyThere are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, 'That person I see is a savage monster;' instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
Noam ChomskyThere is a kind of nonlinguistic thought going on which we are trying to represent in language, and we know that sometimes we fail.
Noam ChomskyThey [unions] used straight Marxist rhetoric [in 1930s] - just the values were changed.
Noam Chomsky