Noam Chomsky Quotes
There are no conservatives in the United States. The United States does not have a conservative tradition. The people who call themselves conservatives, like the Heritage Foundation or Gingrich, are believers in -- are radical statists. They believe in a powerful state, but a welfare state for the rich.
Chomsky, Noam. Class Warfare: Interviews with David Barsamian. Common Courage Press, 1996.
The Republicans had lost the 1960 Presidential election narrowly with the moderate wing of the party in control. Goldwater argued that to win, the appeal must be much more conservative and that what characterized the campaign with the right wing of the party in control. This time, the Republicans were trounced by one of the largest margins in history.
Avram Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He is Laureate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona and Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and is the author of more than 150 books on topics such as linguistics, war, politics, and mass media. Ideologically, he aligns with anarcho-syndicalism and libertarian socialism.
