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Noam Chomsky: Jingoism, racism, fear, religious fundamentalism: these are the ways of appealing to people if you're trying to organize a mass base of support for policies that are really intended to crush them. wordsmith.social/protestation/

Noam Chomsky: You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption. wordsmith.social/protestation/

Noam Chomsky: If anybody thinks they should listen to me because I'm a professor at MIT, that's nonsense. You should decide whether something makes sense by its content, not by the letters after the name of the person who says it. wordsmith.social/protestation/

Noam Chomsky: If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, then there is a possibility that you can contribute to making a better world. wordsmith.social/protestation/

Noam Chomsky: What is called 'capitalism' is basically a system of corporate mercantilism, with huge and largely unaccountable private tyrannies exercising vast control over the economy, political systems, and social and cultural life, operating in close cooperation with powerful states that intervene massively in the domestic economy and international society. wordsmith.social/protestation/

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