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" Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it. "

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" In the 1960s, there was a point, 1968, '69, when there was a very strong antiwar movement against the war in Vietnam. But it's worth remembering that the war in Vietnam started - an outright war started in 1962. "

" Over the years, there have been a series of concepts developed to justify the use of force in international affairs for a long period. It was possible to justify it on the pretext, which usually turned out to have very little substance, that the U.S. was defending itself against the communist menace. By the 1980s, that was wearing pretty thin. "

" Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. "

" Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West. The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute. "

" If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are. "

" Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs. "

" Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements. There wouldn't have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too. "

" For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us. "

" Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the means of violence and can expect to suffer atrocities on home soil. "

" In the case of the environment, there's no one to bail it out. "

" In September 1993, President Clinton presided over a handshake between Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat on the White House lawn - the climax of a 'day of awe,' as the press described it. "

" Part of the population of Laos lives in urban centers, Vientiane being the largest. "

" Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment. "

" Historical grammar is a study of how, say, modern English developed from Middle English, and how that developed from Early and Old English, and how that developed from Germanic, and that developed from what's called Proto-Indo-European, a source system that nobody speaks, so you have to try to reconstruct it. "

" The western mantra is that Israel seeks negotiations without preconditions, while the Palestinians refuse. The opposite is more accurate. "

" International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn't pay his protection money. You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don't have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places. "

" Occasionally the conflict between 'what we stand for' and 'what we do' has been forthrightly addressed. "

" One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson's investment theory of politics, as he calls it - very outstanding political economist - which essentially - I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state. "

" Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s - the Spanish Civil War, for example, though I was barely literate. "

" Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice. "

" The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society. "

" Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed. It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal - hardly inspiring - standards of political conduct. "

" The target of preventive war must have several characteristics. It must be virtually defenceless; it must be important enough to be worth the trouble; it must be possible to portray it as the ultimate evil and an imminent threat to our survival. "

" My father was a great sympathizer of Ahad Ha'am. Every Friday night we would read Hebrew together, and often the reading was Ahad Ha'am's essays. "

" The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television. "

" In the universities, cheap, vulnerable labor means adjuncts and graduate students. "

" It's perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic component, whatever it turns out to be, is what is called universal grammar. "

" Turkey must find its place if, of course, it can heal its internal sores, and none is more malignant than the perennial Kurdish issue. "

" Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear. "

" I have trouble reading modern Hebrew. In the 1950s, I could read anything. I don't know how much experience you've had with contemporary Hebrew. It's quite difficult. "