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get to work on it

[...] there has not in history ever been any answer other than, Get to work on it.

There are a thousand different ways of getting to work on it. For one thing, there’s no “it.” There’s lots of different things. You can think of long-term goals and visions you have in mind, but even if that’s wha…

—p.114 Class Warfare: Interviews with David Barsamian Take from the Needy and Give to the Greedy (113) by Noam Chomsky
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building power, not economic efficiency

[...] Caterpillar, the U.S.-based one, first of all has profits coming out of its ears. It’s making huge profits, like other major corporations, so it’s got plenty of capital. There’s no problem that way. But furthermore, they’ve been using their profits over the past years to build up excess capac…

—p.109 The Federal Reserve Board (97) by Noam Chomsky
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private corporations are not potentially democratic

There are plenty of things wrong with the government. But what’s harmful to people about the government is that it’s a reflection of something else. And that other thing you don’t see. Why don’t you see that other thing? Because it’s been made invisible. [...]

There’s a reason why attention is f…

—p.84 History and Memory (59) by Noam Chomsky
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we cannot commit a crime

[...] The misgivings were that it might not succeed. Suppose that some Nazi general came around after Stalingrad and said, I realized after Stalingrad it was a mistake to fight a two-front war, but I did it anyway. That’s not the Nuremberg defense. That’s not even recognizing that a crime was commi…

—p.75 History and Memory (59) by Noam Chomsky
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we’re just slaughtering South Vietnamese

[...] They unleashed the American air force against Vietnamese villagers, authorized napalm, started crop destruction. They also started attacks against the North, which was not involved seriously at the time. That was the first big decision. He doesn’t even mention it. I don’t think he’s concealin…

—p.72 History and Memory (59) by Noam Chomsky