If you're teaching, say, physics, there's no point in persuading a student that you're right. You want to encourage them to find out what the truth i… - Noam Chomsky

في ديمقراطيات رأسمالية الدولة ، عمل الصراع الشعبي الطويل و المرير على توسيع و إغناء الميدان الشعبي. في الوقت الذي عملت فيه السلطة الخاصة المركزة جاهدة للحد منه . تشكل هذه النزاعات جزءاً كبيراً من التاريخ الحديث، و الطريقة الأكثر فعالية للحد من الديمقراطية هي نقل عملية اتخاذ القرار من الميدان الشعبي إلى المؤسسات غير الخاضعة للمحاسبة : كالملوك و الأمراء ، أو الطبقات الكهنوتية المنغلقة ، أو العصب العسكرية المسيطرة على الحكومة إثر انقلاب أو الديكتاتوريات الحزبية ، أو الشركات الحديثة

There was nothing remotely like socialism in the Soviet Union... [Lenin] didn't believe that it was possible to have socialism in the Soviet Union... He kept the view that the Soviet revolution was a holding action, they just kind of hold things in place, until the real revolution took place in Germany... That, presumably, gave some sort of justification for eliminating the socialist institutions.

We have a big argument here about whether Nicaragua and Cuba are sending arms to El Salvador. Well, I don't know, so far there's no evidence that they are, but that's not really the interesting question. I mean, you gotta watch the way questions are framed by the propaganda system. The way it's framed is, the doves say they're not sending arms, and the hawks say they are sending arms. But the real question, which is being suppressed in all of this, is, "Should they be sending arms?" And the answer is of course, "Yes." [applause] Everybody should be sending arms. You see, that question is not raised, just as if somebody was talking in, say, the Soviet Union, and the question came up: "Should somebody send arms to Afghan rebels?" Well, of course not. You know, that's terrorism or something like that. The point is that it's perfectly legitimate to send arms to people who finally try to use violence in self-defense against a gang of mass murderers installed by a foreign power. Of course it's legitimate to send them arms.