Major efforts have to be undertaken to bring the general public to understand the real reasons for their plight, and the possibilities for radical social and political change to construct meaningful popular control of all institutions - in communities, in the workplace, in the larger society, and on to the international order.
Noam ChomskyWhether the person should then be called "an intellectual" seems to reduce the issue to a question of terminology.
Noam ChomskyWhat the [James] Monroe Doctrine stated, in effect, is that the US should dominate the hemisphere.
Noam ChomskyThere's an interesting book called The Fugu Plan, written by Marvin Tokayer and Mary Swartz, which describes the circumstances when European Jews came to Japan, a semi-feudal society.
Noam Chomsky