Keeping the rabble in line: interviews with David BarsamianInterviews from the early 1990s discuss issues such as health care and crime, foreign affairs, and the role of business in society, provide recommendations for change, and explain Chomsky's theories |
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That's exactly why in countries like Japan in the 1950s, the ministry that directed
and organized the Japanese economy, together with the big corporate
conglomerates, explicitly and openly decided to abandon free-market illusions
and to carry out national industrial planning aimed at Japanese development in "
strategic sectors" with high long-term potential. In newly developing industries,
the industries of the future, the startup costs can be quite considerable. Profit
doesn't come for ...
That's exactly why in countries like Japan in the 1950s, the ministry that directed
and organized the Japanese economy, together with the big corporate
conglomerates, explicitly and openly decided to abandon free-market illusions
and to carry out national industrial planning aimed at Japanese development in "
strategic sectors" with high long-term potential. In newly developing industries,
the industries of the future, the startup costs can be quite considerable. Profit
doesn't come for ...
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DB Let's talk about organized labor unions in the United States. Only fifteen or
sixteen percent of the total U.S. workforce is now unionized, far below, perhaps
by half or even more, what it was decades ago. This is the era of givebacks,
benefits reductions, skipping, deferring or eliminating raises. Does organized
labor really have a positive, progressive role to play? It should, but it's in a very
weakened state. It's been weak for a long time, but it was smashed during the
1980s. It started ...
DB Let's talk about organized labor unions in the United States. Only fifteen or
sixteen percent of the total U.S. workforce is now unionized, far below, perhaps
by half or even more, what it was decades ago. This is the era of givebacks,
benefits reductions, skipping, deferring or eliminating raises. Does organized
labor really have a positive, progressive role to play? It should, but it's in a very
weakened state. It's been weak for a long time, but it was smashed during the
1980s. It started ...
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He asked, "How do we get organized? Is everybody too tied down by monthly
bills to care?" So there are multiple questions and concerns there. How do we get
organized? There's a simple answer: you go ahead and do it. People have gotten
organized under much more onerous conditions than these. Suppose, for
example, you're a peasant in El Salvador in a Christian base community which
tries to become a peasant cooperative. The conditions under which those things
took place ...
He asked, "How do we get organized? Is everybody too tied down by monthly
bills to care?" So there are multiple questions and concerns there. How do we get
organized? There's a simple answer: you go ahead and do it. People have gotten
organized under much more onerous conditions than these. Suppose, for
example, you're a peasant in El Salvador in a Christian base community which
tries to become a peasant cooperative. The conditions under which those things
took place ...
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Contents
Introduction | 3 |
They Dont Even Know That They Know | 35 |
Race | 61 |
Copyright | |
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