Quotes from Noam Chomsky

Foucault: Oh, you know, I don't believe that the problem of personal experience is so very important

a profligate government that is slipping away from those with rightful claims and into the hands of freeloaders happy to depend on welfare handouts. This is the interpretation that the Tea Party makes, and I would say it's the interpretation that the Trump administration makes to a very large extent. This is what's gone wrong with the country. People have cut in line in front of the deserving citizenry.

The liberal press cannot question the basic doctrine of the state religion, that the United States is benevolent, even though often misguided in its innocence, that it labors to permit free choice, even though at times some mistakes are committed in the exuberance of its programs of international goodwill. We must believe that we Americans are always good, though, to be sure, fallible.

I gruppi di potere sono in grado di difendersi e secondo gli standard dei media il fatto che la loro posizione e i loro diritti vengano minacciati costituisce scandalo. Al contrario, finché illegalità e violazione dei principi democratici colpiscono gruppi marginali [...] l'opposizione dei media è completamente assente.

Trabajadores sumisos, consumidores expectantes y ciudadanos pasivos».

Keith Bolender, Voices From the Other Side: An Oral History of Terrorism Against Cuba (London: Pluto Press, 2010).

There are major efforts to replace public schools with semi-privatized systems that would still be supported by the public but run more or less privately, such as charter schools. There is no evidence that they are any better. For all we know, they're even worse. But this privatization of schools does undermine solidarity and mutual support--dangerous ideas that harm concentrated power.

The United States is a business-run society, much more so than comparable ones. Correspondingly, it has a very brutal labor history . . .

The main funders—primarily China, Japan, oil producers—might decide to shift their funds elsewhere for higher profits. But there are few signs of such developments, and they are not too likely. The funders have a considerable stake in sustaining the US economy for their own exports. There is no way to make confident predictions, but it seems clear that the entire world is in a tenuous situation, to say the least.

The studies of Larry Bartels and other political scientists show that working people and the poor tend to do somewhat better under Democratic than Republican administrations. But that just means that the Republicans are deeper in the pockets of the corporate system than the Democrats are. They're both nuzzled there quite happily.

Trabajadores sumisos, consumidores expectantes y ciudadanos pasivos.

There is, in fact, a strong case to be made that a prime concern of government is the security of state power from the population. As

Las personas educadas bajo un modelo domesticador no son capaces de interconectar las piezas y distinguir dos dimensiones.

Necesitamos llegar a comprender las relaciones entre los objetos.

The historical roots of these differences between Europe and the United States are familiar. Centuries of conflict imposed a nation-state system in Europe, and the experience of World War II convinced Europeans that they must abandon their traditional sport of slaughtering one another

Una empresa intelectual más ambiciosa origina una coherente comprensión del mundo.

Los maestros tienen la obligación de investigar y difundir la verdad sobre los temas más significativos, sobre los temas que importan.

It is probable that the most inhuman monsters, even the Himmlers and the Mengeles, convince themselves that they are engaged in noble and courageous acts.

Di solito, più si sente la necessità di parlare degli ideali della democrazia, meno democratico è il sistema.

La escuela impide la difusión de verdades esencial.

La obligación de cualquier maestro es ayudar a sus estudiantes a descubrir la verdad por sí mismos.

Si la escuela fuera verdaderamente democrática, no sería necesario adoctrinar con tópicos sobre la democracia.

have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system. State censorship is not necessary, or even very efficient, in comparison to the ideological controls exercised by systems that are more complex and more decentralized.

alleged commitment to democracy and human rights is mere rhetoric, directly contrary to actual policy.