Noam Chomsky Philosophical Quotes — Page 36

Linguist, Philosopher, Activist

Philosophical

“Starting with [Ronald] Regan it became quite open, the attack on unions. It wasn't the Pinkertons anymore, but it was just not applying the laws.”

Law Unions Starting

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Activist

Philosophical

“The number of illegal firings tripled during the [Ronald] Reagan years. It was at that time that you started getting these companies that specialized in how to destroy unions.”

Years Numbers Unions

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Philosophical

“You've just got to get people organized and tell them the truth. There aren't any magic tricks to it. You know, sometimes it's pretty amazing. Actually, I mentioned a pretty striking case of this in "Crisis and Hope," which was the Caterpillar case in the early 1990s.”

People Sometimes Magic

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Philosophical

“They [the union] were members of the Communist Party - they didn't care one way or another about Russia, they just cared about the United States.”

Party United States Russia

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Philosophical

“I had two spinster aunts who were seamstresses, and of course unemployed in the 1930s, but the union gave them a life. They had a couple of weeks in the country for a union installation and they had educational programs and all sorts of things. There was a life, you know, a real community.”

Real Country Couple

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Philosophical

“The reaction we should be having to [rich liberals] is not ridicule, but rather self-criticism. Why aren't we organizing them? I mean, we are the ones that ought to be organizing them, not Rush Limbaugh. There are historical analogs, which are not exact, of course, but are close enough to be worrisome. This is a whiff of early Nazi Germany.”

Mean Self Historical

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Philosophical

“Rush Limbaugh has answered - it's the rich liberals who own the banks and run the government, and of course run the media, and they don't care about you - they just want to give everything away to illegal immigrants and gays and communists and so on.”

Running Government Gay

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Philosophical

“I've never seen a study, but my sense is that these are people who feel really aggrieved. These people think, "I've done everything right all my life, I'm a god-fearing Christian, I'm white, I'm male, I've worked hard, and I carry a gun. I do everything I'm supposed to do. And I'm getting shafted." And in fact they are getting shafted. For 30 years their wages have stagnated or declined, the social conditions have worsened, the children are going crazy, there are no schools, there's nothing, so somebody must be doing something to them, and they want to know who it is.”

Children Christian Crazy

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Philosophical

“Any little issue - Miss Universe, or whatever it may be - [Donald Trump] is completely unpredictable, he'll go off into outer space.”

Space Issues Missing

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Philosophical

“With regard to nuclear weapons, it's kind of hard to say. [Donald Trump] is said lots of things. The national security experts are terrified. But they're more terrified by his personality than by his statements.”

Personality Experts

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Philosophical

“Ronald Reagan in the US was not a particularly popular president, but after his death sectors of wealth and power created a huge propaganda campaign that converted this disgraceful figure into a semi-divinity.”

President Divinity Campaigns

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Philosophical

“I have written occasionally on links between my scientific work and political thinking, but not much, because the links seem to me abstract and speculative.”

Thinking Political Links

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