Noam Chomsky Quotes About Exercise

• What is called 'capitalism'is basically a system of corporate mercantilism, with huge and largely unaccountable private tyrannies exercising vast control over the economy, political systems, and social and cultural life, operating in close cooperation with powerful states that intervene massively in the domestic economy and international society.

  Noam Chomsky

  Powerful, Exercise, Accountability

  Noam Chomsky (2004). “Language and Politics”, p.784, AK Press

• Anarchists try to identify power structures. They urge those exercising power to justify themselves. This justification does not succeed most of the time.

  Noam Chomsky

  Exercise, Trying, Doe

  "Students Should Become Anarchists". ZEIT Campus Interview, www.indybay.org. June 27, 2011.

• Some innate capacity - some part of the human genetic endowment - enters into language acquisition. That much is uncontroversial among those who believe that humans are part of the natural world. If it were not true, would be a miracle that my granddaughter reflexively identified some elements of the blooming buzzing confusion as language-related and went on to acquire capacities of the kind that you and I are now exercising, while her pet kitten (chimp, songbird, bee...), presented with exactly the same data, could not take the first step, let alone the later ones.

  Noam Chomsky

  Believe, Exercise, Data

  Source: libcom.org

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