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that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist , then it would choose
the American system. and Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that t hey desire theopportunity f or f reely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want to be f ree f rom the meddling
of technocrats and commissars, bankers and tycoons, mad bombers who engage in psychological tests
of will with peasants def ending their homes, behavioral scientist s who can't tell a pigeon f rom a poet , or
anyone else who t ries to wish f reedom and dignity out o f existence or beat them into oblivion..
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I have of ten thought t hat if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist , then it would choose the
American system.
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Language is a process of f ree creation; its laws and principles are f ixed, but the manner in which
the principles o f generation are used is f ree and inf initely varied. Even the interpretat ion and use
of words involves a process of f ree creation.
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The United States is unusual among the indust rial democracies in the rigidity of the system of
ideological cont rol - - indoctrination, we might say - - exercised through the mass media.
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Resistance is f easible even for t hose who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I
believe, fo r those who f ear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt t o impose
American hegemony.
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Unlimited econo mic growth has the marvelous quality o f st illing discontent while maintaining
privilege, a fact that has not gone unnot iced among liberal economists.
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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is no thing more than a product o f
history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the
powerful.
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The people who were honored in the Bible were the f alse prophets . It was the ones we call the
prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert , and so on.
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The only justif ication f or repress ive institutions is material and cultural def icit. But such
institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten
human survival.
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Predato ry capitalism created a complex industrial system and an advanced technology; it permitted
a considerable extension o f democrat ic practice and fos tered certain liberal values, but within limits
that are now being pressed and must be overcome. It is no t a f it system fo r the mid-twentieth
century.
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Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that t hey desire the opportunity for f reely
undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want to be f ree f rom the meddling of technocrats
and commissars, bankers and tycoons, mad bombers who engage in psychological test s o f will
with peasants def ending their homes, behavioral scientists who can't tell a pigeon f rom a poet , or
anyone else who tries to wish f reedom and dignity out of existence or beat t hem into o blivion.
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The consistent anarchist should be a socialist, but a socialist o f a particular so rt. He will not o nly
oppose alienated and specialized labor and look forward to the appropriation of capital by the
whole body of workers, but he will also insis t that this appropriation be direct, not exercised by
so me elite f orce acting in the name of the proletariat. Some so rt o f council communism is thenatural form of revolutionary socialism in an industrial society. It ref lects the intuitive
understanding that democracy is largely a sham when the industrial system is contro lled by any
f orm of autocratic elite, whether of owners, managers, and technocrats, a vanguard party, or a
State bureaucracy.
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We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a so cial being because it does no t
correspond to bio logically determined perceptions and human social needs. For historical reasons ,
existing societies might have such propert ies, leading to various f orms of pathology.
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The basic idea which runs right thro ugh modern history and modern liberalism is t hat the public has
got to be marginalized. The general public are viewed as no more than ignorant and meddlesome
outsiders, a bewildered herd.
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If we don't believe in f reedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of
myself.
Noam Chomsky