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Noam Chomsky Quotes About Concentration


Noam Chomsky Quotes About Concentration
  • Concentration of ownership in the media is high and increasing. Furthermore, those who occupy managerial positions in the media, or gain status within them as commentators, belong to the same privileged elites, and might be expected to share the perceptions, aspirations and attitudes of their associates, reflecting their own class interests as well.
    Noam Chomsky
    AttitudeMediaClass
    Noam Chomsky (1989). “Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies”, p.8, Pluto Press
  • In Egypt the neoliberal programs have meant statistical growth, like right before the Arab Spring, Egypt was a kind of poster child for the World Bank and the IMF [International Monetary Fund:] the marvelous economic management and great reform. The only problem was for most of the population it was a kind of like a blow in the solar plexus: wages going down, benefits being eliminated, subsidized food gone and meanwhile, high concentration of wealth and a huge amount of corruption.
    Noam Chomsky
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    "Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide". Interview with Laura Flanders / GRITtv, www.alternet.org. May 4, 2012. 
  • Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
    Noam Chomsky
    YieldConcentration Of WealthGiving
    Noam Chomsky (2012). “Occupy”, p.19, Penguin UK
  • Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.
    Noam Chomsky
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    "Noam Chomsky on Venezuela - the transcript". Interview with Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2011. 
  • The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power.
    Noam Chomsky
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  • The similarity is that concentration of capital influences virtually everything that goes on. It influences the way the media functions, it very powerfully influences how the government works and it of course influences corporate sector elements, like say how Google or Amazon present materials that reach the public.
    Noam Chomsky
    GovernmentMediaGoogle
    Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012. 
  • The manufacturing industry is starting to press for some kind of national healthcare. Now it's beginning to put it on the agenda. It doesn't matter if the population wants it. What 90% of the population wants would be kind of irrelevant. But if part of the concentration of corporate capital that basically runs the country - another thing we're not allowed to say but it's obvious - if part of that sector becomes in favor then the issue moves onto the political agenda.
    Noam Chomsky
    RunningCountryMoving
    Source: www.counterpunch.org 
  • The Media are corporations so... It's the concentrations of private power which have an enormous, not total control, but enormous influence over Congress and the White House and that's increasing sharply with sharp concentration of private power and escalating cost of elections and so on.
    Noam Chomsky
    MediaWhiteHouse
    "Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide". Interview with Laura Flanders / GRITtv, www.alternet.org. May 4, 2012. 
  • There could be an independent labor-based party, which might over time become an important force the way the Labor Party did in England. To all of these things there are plenty of barriers, in the culture and in the social and political institutions, the concentration of economic power. But these are not insuperable barriers, I think. They can be overcome. And it is urgent that this be done, because there are really incredible problems that are simply not being addressed.
    Noam Chomsky
    PartyIndependentThinking
    Source: www.brooklynrail.org 
  • Unaccountable private power concentrations that dominate economic and social life have the means to seek to "regiment the public mind," and become "tools and tyrants" of government, in James Madison's memorable phrase, as he warned of the threats he discerned to the democratic experiment if private powers were granted free rein.
    Noam Chomsky
    MemorableMeanGovernment
    Source: www.publicanthropology.org 
  • I think a decent society should protect rights to private property within limits, but not concentrations of private power that infringe on the freedom and rights of others, including exploitation of labor, and that convert any democratic forms into what have been called sometimes "hierarchical democracies," like ours, in which some have vastly greater influence over public policy than others. Spelling all of this out is a complex matter that raises many issue and problems that are impossible to address here.
    Noam Chomsky
    ThinkingDemocracyImpossible
    Source: www.washingtonpost.com 
  • A corporation is a state created institution, state supported institution, its concentration of private power, there is no reason why it should have the rights of persons.
    Noam Chomsky
    RightsShould HaveCorporations
    Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.   
  • That was the reason why very few people fleeing the rise of fascism in Europe, especially in Germany, could get to the United States. And there were famous incidents like with the MS Saint Louis, which brought a lot of immigrants, mostly Jewish, from Europe. It reached Cuba, with people expecting to be admitted to the United States from there. But the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt wouldn't allow them in and they had to go back to Europe where many of them died in concentration camps.
    Noam Chomsky
    EuropePeopleFleeing
    Source: thehumanist.com 
  • In a society that has very high concentration of capital in a narrow sector of the population, that's going to influence everything in different ways.
    Noam Chomsky
    WayPopulationDifferent
    Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012. 

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