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 Radical PrioritiesChomsky, Noam; edited by C.P. OteroPublisher:  Black Rose Books, Montreal, Canada Year Published:  1981
 Pages:  307pp   ISBN:  0-920057-17-9
 Resource Type:  Book
 
 Otero presents an analysis and overview of Chomsky's social and political philosophy. For the first time the roots of Chomsky's politics are examined and the relationship to his theory of linguistics demonstrated.
 
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 Table of Contents
 
 Preface
 
 Part I: In Defense of the Third World
 1. On the "National Interest"
 2. Vietnam Protest and the Media
 The present situation in Vietnam
 The Vietnamese analogue to "denazification"
 The protest and the American press
 Propaganda fabrications
 The protest as a political act
 3. Cambodia: No holds barred
 4. The cynical farce about Cambodia
 Postscript: Letter to the New York Times
 5. The hidden war in East Timor
 U.S. Government and press conceal massacres
 Fretilin wins victory
 U.S. News management
 U.S. Military involvement expands
 Chronicle of Indonesian atrocities
 First hand reports
 Press adheres to State Department line
 Human rights report: No mention of Timor
 Comparison with press coverage of Cambodia
 6. The Iranian-American conflict
 7. Israel and the American intelligentsia
 8. Outside of Israeli "official history"
 9. On the Middle East
 10. The "North-South" conflict
 A gloomy prospect for the human race
 Institutional causes
 The competition for scarce resources
 The reasons for arms sales
 Agribusiness and under-nutrition
 Comparison with the Nazis
 Self-interest and policy decisions
 11. The new Cold War
 The protection of "our interests"
 A deadly dance of death
 The likely dynamics of interventionist policies
 Waste production and international dominance
 Commitment or disaster
 Part II: U.S.A.: Myth, reality, acracy
 12. The Carter Administration: Myth and reality
 The ideological institutions
 Totalitarianism and "democracy"
 The rhetoric of human rights
 The Carter Administration and the Trilateral
 Prospects for the coming years
 13. The secret terror organizations of the U.S. Government
 14. Watergate: Small potatoes
 15. The Vietnam war: A monstrosity
 16. The student revolt
 The Pentagon and nuclear war
 A race war
 Why do students rebel?
 The students and the future
 17. The politicization of the university
 The American "democracy"
 Reflections on violence
 The real problems of society
 The "moderate" position
 The position of the hawks
 Two types of "conspiracy"
 Two types of protest
 Ideology and apathy
 Domestic repression
 Participation in a "democratic society"
 Freedom in the university
 Fantasies of the left
 Scholarship and action
 Scientists of the world, unite!
 Tasks for students
 "Radical tactics"
 Tasks for intellectuals
 The primary principle in the struggle
 18. Political prospects
 The Philippines model
 Cultural subjugation
 Latin America
 Paranoid fantasies
 Ideological stranglehold
 American apartheid
 National security managers
 19. Some tasks for the left
 Possibilities of "internal aggression"
 Economy and "national defense"
 A genuine revolutionary movement
 Libertarian socialism
 Technology and self-management
 From autocracy to acracy
 The advantage of the left
 A task for radicals
 The university and the left
 Radical culture and social change
 20. The new radicalism
 The re-radicalization of the 1960's
 The organization of the left
 Industrial society and anarchism
 Cultural effects of the new radicalism
 The radicalization of the scientists
 21. The relevance of anarcho-syndicalism
 Acracy and democracy
 Anarcho-syndicalism and Marxism
 Organization in Anarchy
 Work and standard of living
 Capitalism as an anachronism
 22. Industrial self-management
 
 Epilogue
 23. The danger of nuclear war and what we can do about it
 24. Priorities for averting the holocaust
 25. US foreign policy
 26. 1984: Orwell's and ours
 
 Index
 
 
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