- Action Will Be Taken
Left Anti-Intellectualism and Its Discontents Resource Type: Article Published: 2004 Marxism's decline isn't just an intellectual concern -- it too has practical effects. If you lack any serious understanding of how capitalism works, then it's easy to delude yourself into thinking that moral appeals to the consciences of CEOs and finance ministers will have some effect. You might think that central banks' habit of provoking recessions when the unemployment rate gets too low is a policy based on a mere misunderstanding. You might think that structural adjustment and imperial war are just bad lifestyle choices.
- Beyond Neoliberal Identity Politics
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 Neoliberal identity politics (NIP) is a great weapon on the hands of the privileged capitalist Few and their mass-murderous global empire.
- Getting Started on Social Analysis in Canada
Third Edition Resource Type: Book Published: 1988 See also CX2933.
- Grand narratives
Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 Those who reject 'grand narratives' have simply bought into the hoariest grand narrative of all, the one which says that capitalism is all-powerful and eternal.
- Intellectual Charlatans & Academic Witch-Hunters
Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Butlers work has always divided critics. While some view her as a courageous and innovative thinker, others view her as an intellectual charlatan.
- The limits of anti-racism
Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 The contemporary discourse of 'antiracism' is focused much more on taxonomy than politics. It emphasizes the name by which we should call some strains of inequality -- whether they should be broadly recognized as evidence of 'racism' -- over specifying the mechanisms that produce them or even the steps that can be taken to combat them. And, no, neither 'overcoming racism' nor 'rejecting whiteness' qualifies as such a step any more than does waiting for the 'revolution' or urging God's heavenly intervention.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 15, 2016
Lurching to War Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2016 The risk of nuclear war is as great now as it was at the height of the Cold War. From the time the Warsaw Pact dissolved itself and the Soviet Union collapsed, the United States has single-mindedly pursued a hyper-aggressive strategy of surrounding Russia with hostile military forces and missiles aimed at the Russian heartland.
- Perspectives On Power
Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order Resource Type: Book Published: 1997 Chomsky sets down his thoughts on topics ranging from language and human nature, to the Middle East and East Timor.
- Rebels Without a Cause: The Assault on Academic Freedom
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 Examining current academic culture which falsely labels "words as violence" and how it is affecting acedemic freedom, notably by some who think of themselves as being on the left, who are employing totalitarian tactics which ultimately cause professional and economic harm.
- Suck It Up: Using Our Pride Against Us
Resource Type: Article Published: 2011
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