Occupation: Linguist Birth: December 7, 1928
Syria is descending into suicide. It's a horror story and getting worse and worse. There's no bright spot on the horizon. What will probably happen, ….
I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge the….
People don't have knowledge and understanding about the outside world, or about history [in the USA]..
Haiti, which has been the main target of US intervention throughout the 20th century, is the poorest. And Guatemala, which is maybe the third major t….
Selfish-gene theory tells us nothing about the value of interacting through language..
I don't say you're self-censoring - I'm sure you believe everything you're saying; but what I'm saying is, if you believed something different, you w….
Part of the NAFTA legislation required studies of labor practices, and there was quite a good study that came out by a labor historian on the use of ….
There's very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction - that is, the hatred and the anger - they co….
It's been a real success - one of the great business successes in the United States - to break down organization, to separate people too: it's part o….
The time to be political is not when you have parties and carnivals, it's kind of a show, the election. It affects something but not that much. And f….
A good American friend of mine who has lived in India for many years, working as a journalist, was recently denied entry to the country because he wr….
As for climate change, it's by now widely accepted by the scientific community that we have entered a new geological era, the Anthropocene, in which ….
Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment..
With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extend….
Marx's early manuscripts, with their roots in the Enlightenment and Romanticism, derived fundamental concepts such as alienation from a conception of….
American society is now remarkably atomized. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The ….
I don't really see what can be said about the role of faculty members, or universities, beyond the truisms voiced earlier, and their elaboration in v….
Control is the source of strategic power..
Technology can also be used so that private individuals will have access to the way centralized decisions are being made..
The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes decided by poli….
The most powerful country in world history, which is sure to set its stamp on what follows, placed the entire government (executive, legislative, jud….