bs2> A.. theme is the specific threat posed by the growth of corporate power and the “new despotism of state-supported private power.” Chomsky is uncompromising in his view of private corporations as “unaccountable private tyrannies.” Corporate capitalism, as he sees it, is the last survivor of three systems of tyranny that have common roots.
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Introduction: Chomsky in India
Sometime around 1991 I wrote to Noam Chomsky and invited him to give some lectures in India. It felt like wishful thinking – for one thing, I had no idea how his visit would be financed, if he agreed. I did not even expect him to reply, flooded as he must have been with more important mail. So I was pleasantly surprised to receive a short letter from him just a few days later (these were the good old times when real letters were delivered at home by a live postperson). He wrote that he would ...