butchflirt: Happy birthday, Noam Chomsky! (December 7, 1928)An incisive cultural critic and left-win
butchflirt: Happy birthday, Noam Chomsky! (December 7, 1928)An incisive cultural critic and left-wing intellectual, Noam Chomsky is at least as well-known for his contributions to the field of linguistics as he is for his activism, which stretches back to the 1960s, where as a part of the New Left united in opposition to the Vietnam War, he landed on President Richard Nixon’s “Enemies List.” Opposed to American imperialism and critical of the corporate news media, Chomsky has written or co-written a number of books, such as Manufacturing Consent and Profit Over People, articulating his critiques of American policy and culture. “States are violent institutions. The government of any country, including ours, represents some sort of domestic power structure, and it’s usually violent. States are violent to the extent that they’re powerful, that’s roughly accurate.” -- source link