Western intellectuals, and also Third World intellectuals, were attracted to the Bolshevik counter-revolution because Leninism is, after all, a doctrine which says that the radical intelligentsia have a right to take state power and to run their countries by force, and that is an idea which is rather appealing to intellectuals.
Noam ChomskyUniversities are less constrained by authority and rigid doctrine in the United States than in most other societies, to my knowledge.
Noam ChomskyIt [the internet] should be publicly controlled but Washington is not a system of public control, it's mainly a system of corporate control. We ought to have a free internet, but that means having a free society, and there is fundamental questions there.
Noam ChomskyEvery great power, every aggressive power has always regarded itself as exceptional and as doing things only for the most moral ends.
Noam ChomskyEverybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.
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