"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Chomsky: ‘The Role of the Radical Intellectual—Some Personal Reflections’
Noam Chomsky on his early exposure to activism/anarchism; his intorduction to the 'intellectual class' of 'liberal democrat' gatekeepers 'rewriting' legacies of tyrants; hte validity of the 'tea party movement'; the 'global shift in power' from the 'workforce to multinational capital'; and the 'moving' and 'articulate', though 'ridiculed', 'manifesto' of terrorist Joe Stack before his suicide bombing.
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