For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination.

The Second World War ended with a radicalization of the population in the United States and everywhere else, and called for all kinds of things like popular takeovers, government intervention, and worker takeovers of factories. Business propagated a tremendous propaganda offensive. The scale surprised me when I read the scholarship - it's enormous, and it's been very effective. There were two major targets: one is unions, the other is democracy.

We don't use the term 'working class' here because it's a taboo term. You're supposed to say 'middle class,' because it helps diminish the understanding that there's a class war going on.

Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential.

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

You don't get to be a respected intellectual by uttering truisms in monosyllables.

Passivity may be the easy course, but it is hardly the honorable one.