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Table of Contents
Editor’s Preliminary Note to the Third Edition 1
Editor’s Preliminary Note to the Second Edition 3
Editor’s Preliminary Note to the First Edition 4
List of Abbreviations 6
Introduction to Chomsky’s Social Theory, by Carlos-Peregrín Otero 9
An Independent Mind with Awesome Powers
A Pariah of the “Free Press”
Contagious Ideas
Vision and Analysis
Two Major Themes
The Nature of Human Nature
Libertarianism vs. “Liberalism”
Socialism vs. Capitalism
Acracy vs. Autocracy
Anarcho-syndicalism vs. Atavism
Organic Growth vs. Bureaucratic Fiat
Creativeness vs. Receptiveness
Generative Grammar and Libertarian Values
Theory and Action
PART I
In Defense of the Third World
1. On the “National Interest” 51
2. Vietnam Protest and the Media 55
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 63
4. The Cynical Farce About Cambodia 67
Postscript: Letter to the New York Times
5. The Hidden War in East Timor 73
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 83
7. Israel and the American Intelligentsia 87
8. Outside of Israeli “Official History” 91
9. On the Middle East 95
10. The “North-South” Conflict 103
A Gloomy Prospect for the Human Race
Institutional Causes
The Competition for Scarce Resources
The Reasons for Arms Sales
Agribusiness and Undernutrition
Comparison with the Nazis
Self-interest and Policy Decisions
11. The New Cold War 111
The Protection of “Our Interest”
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 119
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 145
14. Watergate: Small Potatoes 149
15. The Vietnam War: A Monstrosity 153
16. The Student Revolt 157
The Pentagon and Nuclear War
A Race War
Why do Students Rebel?
The Students and the Future
17. The Politicization of the University 163
The American “Democracy”
Reflections on Violence
The Real Problems of Society
The “Moderate” Position
The Position of the Hawksv
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 179
The Philippines Model
Cultural Subjugation
Latin America
Paranoid Fantasies
Ideological Stranglehold
American Apartheid
National Security Managers
19. Some Tasks for the Left 187
Possibilities of “Internal Aggression”
Economy and “National Defense”
A Genuine Revolutionary Movemen
t
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 199
The Re-radicalization of the 1960s
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 211
Acracy and Democracy
Anarcho-syndicalism and Marxism
Organization in Anarchy
Work and Standard of Living
Capitalism as an Anachronism
22. Industrial Self-management 227
PART III
A Pressing Agenda
23. The Danger of Nuclear War and What We Can Do About It 235
Postscript: What Can Young People Do?
24. Priorities for Averting the Holocaust 243
25. U.S. Foreign Policy 251
Postscript: The Foreign Policy of the Reagan Administration
26. 1984: Orwell’s and Ours 261
27. An Inquiry into Global Capitalism 269
The War Crimes Issue: Two Different Proposals
Dangerous Concomitants of Unchallenged Power
Human Development: A Shocking Record
Economic Growth: Two Obvious Questions
Huge Taxpayer Subsidies to the Corporations
A Very Sharp Attack on Democracy
28. The Multilateral Agreement on Investment 285
“The Ultimate Weapon”
A Euphemism: “Defense Industrial Base”
People with Sentiments and Feelings
Mobility of Capital and the Social Contract
A Question Solely About Democrac
y
Systems of Protection of Private Power
29. Terror and Just Response 301
The Official U.S. Definition of “Terrorism”
An Uncontroversial Case as Illustration
A New Phase of the “War on Terror”
The First Phase: Serious War Crimes
The Proper Response to Acts of Terror
Facts that Cannot be Ignored Without Peril
30. A World Without War 319
The Ongoing Conflict: Primary issues
A Stark Choice: Hegemony or Survival
A Serious Threat to the Human Species
The Mirage of the Promised Land
The Effects of Neoliberal Programs
Increasing Disillusionment with What Remains of Democracy
Index 333
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