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How is it that one man can be so maligned by the Right and yet remain so misunderstood by the Left? This new and expanded edition of Radical Pri-orities puts the spotlight on Chomsky’s libertarian social and political philosophy in an engaging, easy-to-navigate manner. Keenly edited by Carlos-Peregrin Otero, this comprehensive collection of essays and in-terviews remains the ultimate guide to the politics of the author of 9–11, America’s bible for post-September 11th stress disorder. Discover for yourself the mind and motivations of the man the New York Times has labeled "the foremost gadfly of our national conscience."
Noam Chomsky, author, professor, dissident, remains an essential voice for our times.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781902593692 |
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| Publisher: | AK PR INC |
| Publication date: | 06/01/2003 |
| Edition description: | Subsequent |
| Pages: | 330 |
| Sales rank: | 937,590 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d) |
About the Author
Noam Chomsky is one of the world's leading intellectuals, father of modern linguistics, outspoken media and foreign policy critic and tireless activist.
Table of Contents
| Editor's Preliminary Note to the Third Edition | 1 | |
| Editor's Preliminary Note to the Second Edition | 3 | |
| Editor's Preliminary Note to the First Edition | 4 | |
| List of Abbreviations | 6 | |
| Introduction to Chomsky's Social Theory | 9 | |
| An Independent Mind with Awesome Powers | ||
| A Pariah of the "Free Press" | ||
| Contagious Ideas | ||
| Vision and Analysis | ||
| Two Major Themes | ||
| The Nature of Human Nature | ||
| Libertarianism vs. "Liberalism" | ||
| Socialism vs. Capitalism | ||
| Acracy vs. Autocracy | ||
| Anarcho-syndicalism vs. Atavism | ||
| Organic Growth vs. Bureaucratic Fiat | ||
| Creativeness vs. Receptiveness | ||
| Generative Grammar and Libertarian Values | ||
| Theory and Action | ||
| Part I | In Defense of the Third World | |
| 1. | On the "National Interest" | 51 |
| 2. | Vietnam Protest and the Media | 55 |
| The Present Situation in Vietnam | ||
| The Vietnamese Analogue to "Denazification" | ||
| The Protest and the American Press | ||
| Propaganda Fabrications | ||
| The Protest as a Political Act | ||
| 3. | Cambodia: No Holds Barred | 63 |
| 4. | The Cynical Farce About Cambodia | 67 |
| Postscript: Letter to the New York Times | ||
| 5. | The Hidden War in East Timor | 73 |
| U.S. Government and Press Conceal Massacres FRETILIN Wins Victory | ||
| U.S. News Management | ||
| U.S. Military Involvement Expands | ||
| Chronicle of Indonesian Atrocities | ||
| First Hand Reports | ||
| Press Adheres to State Department Line | ||
| Human Rights Report: No Mention of Timor | ||
| Comparison with Press coverage of Cambodia | ||
| 6. | The Iranian-American Conflict | 83 |
| 7. | Israel and the American Intelligentsia | 87 |
| 8. | Outside of Israeli "Official History" | 91 |
| 9. | On the Middle East | 95 |
| 10. | The "North-South" Conflict | 103 |
| A Gloomy Prospect for the Human Race | ||
| Institutional Causes | ||
| The Competition for Scarce Resources | ||
| The Reasons for Arms Sales | ||
| Agribusiness and Undernutrition | ||
| Comparison with the Nazis | ||
| Self-interest and Policy Decisions | ||
| 11. | The New Cold War | 111 |
| The Protection of "Our Interests" | ||
| A Deadly Dance of Death | ||
| The Likely Dynamics of Interventionist Policies | ||
| Waste Production and International Dominance | ||
| Commitment or Disaster | ||
| Part II | U.S.A.: Myth, Reality, Acracy | |
| 12. | The Carter Administration: Myth and Reality | 119 |
| The Ideological Institutions | ||
| Totalitarianism and "Democracy" | ||
| The Rhetoric of Human Rights | ||
| The Carter Administration and the Trilateral | ||
| Prospects for the Coming Years | ||
| 13. | The Secret Terror Organizations of the U.S. Government | 145 |
| 14. | Watergate: Small Potatoes | 149 |
| 15. | The Vietnam War: A Monstrosity | 153 |
| 16. | The Student Revolt | 157 |
| The Pentagon and Nuclear War | ||
| A Race War | ||
| Why do Students Rebel? | ||
| The Students and the Future | ||
| 17. | The Politicization of the University | 163 |
| The American "Democracy" | ||
| Reflections on Violence | ||
| The Real Problems of Society | ||
| The "Moderate" Position | ||
| The Position of the Hawks | ||
| Two types of "Conspiracy" | ||
| Two types of Protest | ||
| Ideology and Apathy | ||
| Domestic Repression | ||
| Participation in a "Democratic Society" | ||
| Freedom in the University | ||
| Fantasies of the Left | ||
| Scholarship and Action | ||
| Scientists of the World, Unite! | ||
| Tasks for Students | ||
| "Radical Tactics" | ||
| Tasks for Intellectuals | ||
| The Primary Principle in the Struggle | ||
| 18. | Political Prospects | 179 |
| The Philippines Model | ||
| Cultural Subjugation | ||
| Latin America | ||
| Paranoid Fantasies | ||
| Ideological Stranglehold | ||
| American Apartheid | ||
| National Security Managers | ||
| 19. | Some Tasks for the Left | 187 |
| Possibilities of "Internal Aggression" | ||
| Economy and "National Defense" | ||
| A Genuine Revolutionary Movement | ||
| Libertarian Socialism | ||
| Technology and Self-management | ||
| From Autocracy to Acracy | ||
| The Advantage of the Left | ||
| A Task for Radicals | ||
| The University and the Left | ||
| Radical Culture and Social Change | ||
| 20. | The New Radicalism | 199 |
| The Re-radicalization of the 1960s | ||
| The Organization of the Left | ||
| Industrial Society and Anarchism | ||
| Cultural Effects of the New Radicalism | ||
| The Radicalization of the Scientists | ||
| 21. | The Relevance of Anarcho-syndicalism | 211 |
| Acracy and Democracy | ||
| Anarcho-syndicalism and Marxism | ||
| Organization in Anarchy | ||
| Work and Standard of Living | ||
| Capitalism as an Anachronism | ||
| 22. | Industrial Self-management | 227 |
| Part III | A Pressing Agenda | |
| 23. | The Danger of Nuclear War and What We Can Do About It | 235 |
| Postscript: What Can Young People Do? | ||
| 24. | Priorities for Averting the Holocaust | 243 |
| 25. | U.S. Foreign Policy | 251 |
| Postscript: The Foreign Policy of the Reagan Administration | ||
| 26. | 1984: Orwell's and Ours | 261 |
| 27. | An Inquiry into Global Capitalism | 269 |
| The War Crimes Issue: Two Different Proposals | ||
| Dangerous Concomitants of Unchallenged Power | ||
| Human Development: A Shocking Record | ||
| Economic Growth: Two Obvious Questions | ||
| Huge Taxpayer Subsidies to the Corporations | ||
| A Very Sharp Attack on Democracy | ||
| 28. | The Multilateral Agreement on Investment | 285 |
| "The Ultimate Weapon" | ||
| A Euphemism: "Defense Industrial Base" | ||
| People with Sentiments and Feelings | ||
| Mobility of Capital and the Social Contract | ||
| A Question Solely About Democracy | ||
| Systems of Protection of Private Power | ||
| 29. | Terror and Just Response | 301 |
| The Official U.S. Definition of "Terrorism" | ||
| An Uncontroversial Case as Illustration | ||
| A New Phase of the "War on Terror" | ||
| The First Phase: Serious War Crimes | ||
| The Proper Response to Acts of Terror | ||
| Facts that Cannot be Ignored Without Peril | ||
| 30. | A World Without War | 319 |
| The Ongoing Conflict: Primary issues | ||
| A Stark Choice: Hegemony or Survival | ||
| A Serious Threat to the Human Species | ||
| The Mirage of the Promised Land | ||
| The Effects of Neoliberal Programs | ||
| Increasing Disillusionment with What Remains of Democracy | ||
| Index | 333 |
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