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Originally "posted" by Noam Chomsky: [...] In many ways, the activism of the 1960s and subsequent years has simply made a lot of the world, including this country, much more civilised in many domains. |
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Originally posted by thunderous_funker: [...] In fact, in a healthy democracy everyone should be a political activist. [...] |
Well said!
Here, BTW, are some of the (IMO, of course) most interesting Chomsky links on the web; there seems to be quite a lot of misunderstandings about his views, anyway: in particular, how are his views some form of "left-wing extremism"? I think they are quite balanced, and an acceptable approximation of what really happens (or tends to happen) in today's political world. Even as an anarchist, he's rather of the "soft" kind, not even being totally against the state (provided, of course, it serves the people, and not vice versa!)...
... A few links, for those interested:
- The Noam Chomsky Archive;
- Another Noam Chomsky Archive;
- Noam Chomsky on Anarchism, etc.;
- Noam Chomsky's MIT Homepage;
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