Review: On Power and Ideology: The Managua Lectures
User Review - Tim - GoodreadsThis book contains the transcripts of 5 lectures given at the Universidad Centroamerica (UCA) in Managua, Nicaragua in early 1986. The lectures outline Chomsky's views on US foreign policy with a ... Read full review
Review: On Power and Ideology: The Managua Lectures
User Review - Elliot - GoodreadsAfter a certain point, I don't know how much more I can say about Chomsky. As a nice refresher course before I tackle his larger Deterring Democracy later this week, I read On Power and Ideology, a ... Read full review
Review: On Power and Ideology: The Managua Lectures
User Review - Miquixote - GoodreadsChomsky's easy explanation of power and the ideology that necessarily accompanies it. A more accurate title would be how the US uses the state, the military, the economy, and ideology to maintain their power. One of his best, most succinct works. Read full review
Review: On Power and Ideology: The Managua Lectures
User Review - Dale - GoodreadsThis book is a series of 5 lectures given by Chomsky in Managua, Nicaragua in 1987, just after the height of the contra atrocities sponsored by the US government. In these lectures Chomsky examines ... Read full review
Review: On Power and Ideology: The Managua Lectures
User Review - Eric Gulliver - GoodreadsThe most concise collection of lectures outlining conclusions Chomsky has arrived at concerning the US role in the world. This volume is more towards the broad principled discussion rather than the ... Read full review
Review: On Power and Ideology: The Managua Lectures
User Review - Matteo - GoodreadsClear, concise. eye-opening. Read full review
Review: On Power and Ideology: The Managua Lectures
User Review - -uht! - GoodreadsThis book helped me to understand what US foreign policy truly is. Our leaders would have us think the world is upset with us for any number of silly reasons, but this book elucidates the 5th freedom and what we are actually DOING in the rest of the world. I wish it were required reading. Read full review
Review: On Power and Ideology: The Managua Lectures
User Review - -uht! - GoodreadsThis book helped me to understand what US foreign policy truly is. Our leaders would have us think the world is upset with us for any number of silly reasons, but this book elucidates the 5th freedom and what we are actually DOING in the rest of the world. I wish it were required reading. Read full review