Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.

There is always room for Gramsci's "optimism of the will."

The idea that people should be allowed to decide something about their own fate is just anathema to European elites.

For the last couple of hundred years, there have been struggles about this. Even the Fifth and Sixth Amendments of the constitution talk about personal rights.

Bear in mind that we [ with Edward Herman] did not devise the terms "manufacture of consent" and "engineering of consent." We borrowed them from leading figures in the media, public relations industry, and academic scholarship.

If North Korea doesn't have a deterrent, they will be wiped out.

The social system is taking on a form in which finding out what you want to do is less and less of an option because your life is too structured, organised, controlled and disciplined.