Occupation: Linguist Birth: December 7, 1928
In the United States, the political system is a very marginal affair. There are two parties, so-called, but they're really factions of the same party….
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and ….
Popular struggles to bring about a freer and more just society have been resisted by violence and repression, and massive efforts to control opinion ….
A dramatic, evocative, thoughtful and very accessible account of one of the most important stories of the century - and one of the most ominous, unle….
I just went along with political activists and interested in other intellectual interests which I pursued kind of at random. I never had a real colle….
The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-pr….
The task for a modern industrial society is to achieve what is now technically realizable, namely, a society which is really based on free voluntary ….
As for organs, traits, etc., being "for" something, the notion may be a useful shorthand, but shouldn't be taken too seriously, if only because of th….
The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa's major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, f….
As far as Bernie Sanders is concerned, he is a decent, honest person, and I supported him. What he means by socialism is New Deal Liberalism. In fact….
Another problem is the confrontation with India. Pakistan just cannot survive if it continues to do so (continue this confrontation)..
There are women (some men, too, but mostly women) who are going to the occupied Palestinian territories to stand with the victims of Israeli occupati….
If the United States is accommodating, the North Koreans become accommodating. If the United States is hostile, they become hostile..
So Marxism, Freudianism: any one of these things I think is an irrational cult. They're theology, so they're whatever you think of theology; I don't ….
A lot of association on the internet is highly constructive. There are people interacting, interchanging ideas, making plans, coordinating activities….
If workers are more insecure, that's very 'healthy' for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won't ask for wages, they won't go on stri….
Honduras has become a murder capital of the world; there's horrible atrocities, infanticide, murder of women is way up, and people are fleeing in des….
I see no anti-Semitic implications in denial of the existence of gas chambers, or even denial of the Holocaust..
Predatory capitalism created a complex industrial system and an advanced technology; it permitted a considerable extension of democratic practice and….
The US and Canada are now increasingly isolated in the hemisphere, and sooner or later, I think we're going to find that the US and Canada are simply….
As we [with Edward Herman] discuss there [in Manufacturing Consent] and elsewhere, recognition of the importance of "manufacturing consent" has becom….