Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky - Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky, John Schoeffel, R. Mitchell
Category: History
Tags: History, Political
Noam Chomsky is universally accepted as one of the preeminent public intellectuals of the modern era. Over the past few decades broadly diverse audiences have gathered to attend his sold-out lectures. Now, in Understanding Power, Peter Mitchell and John Schoeffel have assembled the best of Chomskys recent talks on the past, present, and future of the politics of power. In a series of enlightening and wide-ranging discussions, all published here for the first time, Chomsky radically reinterprets the events of the past three decades, covering topics from foreign policy during Vietnam to the decline of welfare under the Clinton administration. And as he elucidates the connection between Americas imperialistic foreign policy and the decline of domestic social services, Chomsky also discerns the necessary steps to take toward social change. With an eye to political activism and the medias role in popular struggle, as well as U.S. foreign and domestic policy, Understanding Power offers a swe
