The neo-cons constitute a radical reactionary fringe of the planning spectrum, but the spectrum is narrow.

The Internet is an élite organization; most of the population of the world has never even made a phone call.

There's just no question that the United States was trying desperately to prevent the independence of South Vietnam and to prevent a political settlement inside South Vietnam. And in fact it went to war precisely to prevent that. It finally bombed the North in 1965 with the purpose of trying to get the North to use its influence to call off the insurgency in the South.

While the state can coerce, with some exceptions (like North Korea) it seems to me misleading to think of it as capable of "enslavement."

As far as Marx's analysis of capitalism, there's a lot of very useful ideas in it, but he's developing an abstract model of 19th century capitalism. It's abstract and it's changed.

I don't have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.

In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.