Fuck Yeah Noam Chomsky

“You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.”

Noam Chomsky

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Propaganda is to democracy what violence is to dictatorship

Noam Chomsky (via lowertheflags)

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We cannot say much about human affairs with any confidence, but sometimes it is possible. We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war, or there won’t be a world — at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.

Noam Chomsky (via revolutionnow)

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Hermitic Ramblings: Noam Chomsky on Resistance

hermiticramblings:

As I was reading Chomsky’s essay On Resistance I came across a few fragments I thought notable enough for posting:

“The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming. As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the government in this…

Notes: 8 9/10/10 — 8:27pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZFGFJy11dFm0 Filed under: #vietnam #resistence #violence #protest #soldiers

It is the fundamental duty of the citizen to resist and to restrain the violence of the state. Those who choose to disregard this responsibility can justly be accused of complicity in war crimes, which is itself designated as ‘a crime under international law’ in the principles of the Charter of Nuremberg.

Noam Chomsky (via revolutionnow)

Notes: 13 8/28/10 — 12:35pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZFGFJyz9MqA Filed under: #nuremberg #noam chomsky #justice #violence #international law #citizen