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Poor whites didn't have rights. They made all kind of restrictions on voting. So person meant relatively well - off, free white man.
The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
[Ronald] Reagan bitterly hated unions and wanted them destroyed. This began with the air controllers' strike and went on from there.
Any little issue - Miss Universe, or whatever it may be - [Donald Trump] is completely unpredictable, he'll go off into outer space.
Every great power, every aggressive power has always regarded itself as exceptional and as doing things only for the most moral ends.
What the public wants is called 'politically unrealistic.' Translated into English, that means power and privilege are opposed to it.
We are entering a period of human history that may provide an answer to the question of whether it is better to be smart than stupid.
Another problem is the confrontation with India. Pakistan just cannot survive if it continues to do so (continue this confrontation).
The country was founded on the principle that primary role of government is to protect property from the majority, and so it remains.
Universities are less constrained by authority and rigid doctrine in the United States than in most other societies, to my knowledge.
I choose to live in what I think is the greatest country in the world, which is committing horrendous terrorist acts and should stop.
[ Republican Party] is correctly described as a "radical insurgency" by one of the leading conservative commentators, Norman Ornstein.
A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S.
Turkey must find its place if, of course, it can heal its internal sores, and none is more malignant than the perennial Kurdish issue.
George Washington hated the guerrillas. He wanted to imitate the British red coat armies, fighting as gentlemen are supposed to fight.
The intellectual is an individual with a specific public role in society that cannot be reduced simply to . . a faceless professional.
On abortion: We are talking about ambiguous issues of a complicated kind where you have to balance conflicting interests and concerns.
I don't usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this 'hopey changey stuff,' she was right: there was nothing there.
Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.
US wars are going to be against much weaker enemies. And they have to be won quickly and decisively before a popular reaction develops.
The US is to an unusual extent a business-run society, where short-term concerns of profit and market share displace rational planning.
The reason I am a political radical is that I work on syntax. If I worked on semantics (which in fact I do), I'd be a good Thatcherite.
A basic principle of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are socialized to the extent possible, while profit is privatized.
People have no human rights, only the rights that they can gain on the labour market. Above all, wealth and power have to be protected.
My grandchildren are on social media all the time, and they think they have friends. But it's not what I would've called a friend, ever.
In general, I think, U.S. policies remain constant, going back to the Second World War. But the capacity to implement them is declining.
There is no western concern for issues of aggression, atrocities, human rights abuses and so on if there's a profit to be made from them
To understand how people organize social systems, we have to discover the principles that we create to make some societies intelligible.
It's not a free trade agreement. It has virtually nothing to do with free trade... It's a protectionist agreement; it's anti free-trade.
In the United States everyone is an illegal immigrant - everyone except the people in Indian Reservations. This is an immigrant society.
We could not bring democracy to South Vietnam at a cost that we were willing to accept. So it was a disaster. That' is the left extreme.
The American escalation of the war in Laos provoked a response by the Communist forces, which now control more of Laos than ever before.
In the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It's not like Egypt, where you're going to get murdered by the security forces.
Its true that contemporary technology permits decentralization, it also permits centralization. It depends on how you use the technology.
In my experience at least, the large public universities do not fall behind in fostering creativity and independence; often the contrary.
The western mantra is that Israel seeks negotiations without preconditions, while the Palestinians refuse. The opposite is more accurate.
You know, people talk about [Richard] Nixon's "madman theory." We don't really know much about that. It was in memoirs, by somebody else.
While the state can coerce, with some exceptions (like North Korea) it seems to me misleading to think of it as capable of "enslavement."
The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
Plainly elites in America don't want democracy. And why should they? Democracy is always harmful to elite interests. Almost by definition.
One measure for promoting both stability and fairness across financial market segments is a small sales tax on all financial transactions.
I really suggest listening to talk radio. I mean, if you just listen to what the talk hosts are saying, they sound like they are lunatics.
As elite attitudes towards public education over time illustrate, simple formulas are far from adequate. There are conflicting tendencies.
We don't live in tyrannies, you know, the king doesn't decide what's legitimate, and there's much more freedom than there was in the past.
You win by struggle, and that requires understanding and serious analysis of the options and the circumstances, and then you can do a lot.
I just don't care about popular culture. It looks to me pointless and superficial. If I had free time I'd rather read a 19th century novel.
Trump keeps the spotlight on himself with one act after another, assuming correctly that yesterday's antics will be swept aside by today's.
For the totalitarian mind, adherence to state propaganda does not suffice: one must display proper enthusiasm while marching in the parade.