Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky
Avram Noam Chomskyis an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, logician, social critic, and political activist. Sometimes described as "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy, and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He has spent more than half a century at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is Institute Professor Emeritus, and is the author of over 100 books on topics such as linguistics, war, politics, and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTeacher
Date of Birth7 December 1928
CityPhiladelphia, PA
CountryUnited States of America
My speculation is that the U.S. does not want to establish the principle that it has to defer to some higher authority before carrying out the use of violence.
Reviewing the record of American intervention in Indochina in the Pentagon Papers, one cannot fail to be struck by the continuity of basic assumptions from one administration to the next. Never has there been the slightest deviation from the principle that a noncommunist regime must be imposed and defended, regardless of popular sentiment.
Social Security is based on a principle. It's based on the principle that you care about other people. You care whether the widow across town, a disabled widow, is going to be able to have food to eat.
Under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control.
If you claim to have a theory that deduces unexpected consequences from nontrivial principles, let's see it.
A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer.
The basic principle, rarely violated, is that what conflicts with the requirements of power and privilege does not exist.
There are very deep and restrictive principles that determine the nature of human language and are rooted in the specific character of the human mind
A basic principal of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are socialized to the extent possible, while profit is privatized.
There is no plausible theory under which the record of the Pentagon Papers can be interpreted as relating to the national defense.
The poorest country in South America, Bolivia, had been devastated by neoliberal economic policies.
Rendition is just sending people abroad to be tortured.
Remember, weapons of mass destruction don't mean missiles.
Part of the population of Laos lives in urban centers, Vientiane being the largest.