Quotes by Chomsky, Noam

The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cul >>

Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the o >>

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fi >>

Quotations about Anarchism

The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin. >>

The consistent anarchist should be a socialist, but a socialist of a p >>

Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness >>

The consistent anarchist should be a socialist, but a socialist of a particular sort. He will not only oppose alienated and specialized labor and look forward to the appropriation of capital by the whole body of workers, but he will also insist that this appropriation be direct, not exercised by some elite force acting in the name of the proletariat. Some sort of council communism is the natural form of revolutionary socialism in an industrial society. It reflects the intuitive understanding that democracy is largely a sham when the industrial system is controlled by any form of autocratic elite, whether of owners, managers, and technocrats, a vanguard party, or a State bureaucracy.

Chomsky, Noam