Poet Noam Chomsky

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Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.
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I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.
Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.
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.
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.
The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power.
The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.
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.
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

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