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A compelling new set of interviews on our changing and turbulent times with Noam Chomsky, one of the world's foremost thinkers.In this new collection of conversations, conducted from 2010 to 2012, Noam Chomsky explores the most immediate and urgent concerns: the future of democracy in the Arab world, the implications of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the European financial crisis, the breakdown of American mainstream political institutions, and the rise of the Occupy movement. As always, Chomsky presents his ideas vividly and accessibly, with uncompromising principle and clarifying insight.The latest volume from a long-established, trusted partnership, Power Systems shows once again that no interlocutor engages with Chomsky more effectively than David Barsamian. These interviews will inspire a new generation of readers, as well as longtime Chomsky fans eager for his latest thinking on the many crises we now confront, both at home and abroad. They confirm that Chomsky is an unparalleled resource for anyone seeking to understand our world today.

A sweeping yet penetrating collection of interviews with Noam Chomsky, exploring the most pressing global concerns of our time. In these illuminating interviews conductedby C.J. Polychroniou, Noam Chomsky yet again shares his brilliant insights on an array of struggles and challenges facing humanity. A Livable Future Is Possible addresses artificial intelligence and the potential for such programs to surpass humans in cognitive awareness; what lies ahead for a world engulfed in a deadly climate crisis; the rise of neo-fascism internationally, and why we should organize across borders to confront it; the striking similarities between Trump and Biden's foreign policies; and a number of other critical issues gripping the planet. Noam Chomsky has been an incomparable model of moral clarity and intellectual courage during his many decades as a scholar and critic. He is the most cited living scholar. One would be hard-pressed to find a more influential voice than Chomsky's in the West. A Livable Future Is Possible is not only an urgent and informative resource, it is a call-to-action for those hoping to help carry the torch of one of history's greatest minds.

Updated with a new preface by Gilbert Achar, covering events since 2007 including the late-2023 renewal of military conflict between Israel and Hamas, this new edition provides readers with an essential critical perspective on the US role in the Middle East.The volatile Middle East is the site of vast resources, profound passions, frequent crises, and long-standing conflicts, as well as a major source of international tensions and a key site of direct US intervention. Two of the most astute analysts of this part of the world are Noam Chomsky, the preeminent critic of U.S. foreign policy, and Gilbert Achcar, a leading specialist of the Middle East who has lived in that region for many years. In this book, Chomsky and Achcar bring a keen understanding of the internal dynamics of the Middle East and of the role of the United States, taking up all the key questions of interest to concerned citizens, including such topics as terrorism, fundamentalism, conspiracies, oil, democracy, self-determination, anti-Semitism, and anti-Arab racism, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the sources of U.S. foreign policy.This book provides the best readable introduction for all who wish to understand the complex issues related to the Middle East from a perspective dedicated to peace and justice.

Upon its original publication in 1993, Letters from Lexington reaffirmed Noam Chomsky's status as one of the most incisive critics of the American media. Reissued with a new foreword by Chomsky's long-term collaborator, radio broadcaster David Barsamian, this prescient book remains startlingly relevant in our current age of disinformation and “fake news.”Throughout the book, Chomsky critiques the media's complicity in US domestic and foreign policy. In particular, Chomsky's analyses of the politics of the Reagan and earlier Bush administrations offer illuminating perspectives on the events, key players, and policies that would continue to shape America's national agenda during the presidency of George W. Bush and the “War on Terrorism.”Letters from Lexington remains an indispensable guide to the American propaganda machine and the shibboleths of the mainstream media. As such, this book will appeal to students and scholars with an interest in the media and US domestic and foreign policy, as well as serve as a vital tool for activists and general readers seeking to question dubious narratives put forward by the mainstream media.

An indispensable set of interviews on foreign and domestic issues with the bestselling author of Hegemony or Survival,'America's most useful citizen.'—The Boston GlobeIn this new collection of conversations, conducted in 2006 and 2007, Noam Chomsky explores the most immediate and urgent concerns: Iran's challenge to the United States, the deterioration of the Israel-Palestine conflict, the ongoing occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, the rise of China, and the growing power of the left in Latin America, as well as the Democratic victory in the 2006 U.S. midterm elections and the upcoming presidential race. As always, Chomsky presents his ideas vividly and accessibly, with uncompromising principle and clarifying insight.The latest volume from a long-established, trusted partnership, What We Say Goes shows once again that no interlocutor engages with Chomsky more effectively than David Barsamian. These interviews will inspire a new generation of readers, as well as longtime Chomsky fans eager for his latest thinking on the many crises we now confront, both at home and abroad. They confirm that Chomsky is an unparalleled resource for anyone seeking to understand our world today.

“For anyone wanting to find out more about the world we live in... there is one simple answer: read Noam Chomsky.” —The New StatesmanFrom one of the world's most prominent thinkers comes an urgent warning of the threat that U.S. power poses to humanity's future as well as a sharp indictment of both American foreign policy and the national myths that support it.The Myth of American Idealism offers a timely and comprehensive introduction to the incisive critiques of U.S. power that have made Noam Chomsky a “global phenomenon,” one of the most widely known public intellectuals of all time. Surveying the history of U.S. military and economic activity around the world, Chomsky and his co-author Nathan J. Robinson vividly trace the way the American pursuit of global domination has wrought havoc in country after country – without, ironically, making Americans any safer. And they explore how dominant elites in the United States have pushed self-serving myths about this country's commitment to “spreading democracy,” while pursuing a reckless foreign policy that served the interest of few and endangered all too many.Chomsky and Robinson range across the globe, offering penetrating accounts of Washington's relationship with the Global South, its role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan –all justified with noble stories about humanitarian missions and the benevolent intentions of American policy makers. The same kinds of myths that have led to repeated disastrous wars, they argue, are now driving us closer to wars with Russia and China that imperil humanity's future. Examining nuclear proliferation and climate change, they show how U.S. policies are continuing to exacerbate global threats.For well over half a century, Noam Chomsky has committed himself to exposing governing ideologies and criticizing his country's unchecked use of military power. At once thorough and devastating, urgent and provocative, The Myth of American Idealism offers a highly readable entry to the conclusions he has come to after a lifetime of thought and activism.

In this first collection of interviews since the bestselling 9-11, our foremost intellectual activist examines crucial new questions of U.S. foreign policy.Timely, urgent, and powerfully elucidating, this important volume of previously unpublished interviews conducted by award-winning radio journalist David Barsamian features Noam Chomsky discussing America's policies in an increasingly unstable world. With his famous insight, lucidity, and redoubtable grasp of history, Chomsky offers his views on the invasion and occupation of Iraq, the doctrine of'preemptive'strikes against so-called rogue states, and the prospects of the second Bush administration, warning of the growing threat to international peace posed by the U.S. drive for domination. In his inimitable style, Chomsky also dissects the propaganda system that fabricates a mythic past and airbrushes inconvenient facts out of history.Barsamian, recipient of the ACLU's Upton Sinclair Award for independent journalism, has conducted more interviews and radio broadcasts with Chomsky than has any other journalist. Enriched by their unique rapport, Imperial Ambitions explores topics Chomsky has never before discussed, among them the 2004 presidential campaign and election, the future of Social Security, and the increasing threat, including devastating weather patterns, of global warming. The result is an illuminating dialogue with one of the leading thinkers of our time—and a startling picture of the turbulent times in which we live.

'It's hard to imagine any American reading this book and not seeing his country in a new, and deeply troubling, light.'—The New York Times Book ReviewThe United States has repeatedly asserted its right to intervene militarily against'failed states'around the globe. In this much-anticipated follow-up to his international bestseller Hegemony or Survival, Noam Chomsky turns the tables, showing how the United States itself shares features with other failed states—suffering from a severe'democratic deficit,'eschewing domestic and international law, and adopting policies that increasingly endanger its own citizens and the world. Exploring the latest developments in U.S. foreign and domestic policy, Chomsky reveals Washington's plans to further militarize the planet, greatly increasing the risks of nuclear war. He also assesses the dangerous consequences of the occupation of Iraq; documents Washington's self-exemption from international norms, including the Geneva conventions and the Kyoto Protocol; and examines how the U.S. electoral system is designed to eliminate genuine political alternatives, impeding any meaningful democracy.Forceful, lucid, and meticulously documented, Failed States offers a comprehensive analysis of a global superpower that has long claimed the right to reshape other nations while its own democratic institutions are in severe crisis. Systematically dismantling the United States'pretense of being the world's arbiter of democracy, Failed States is Chomsky's most focused—and urgent—critique to date.

Depuis le départ des dernières troupes américaines du Vietnam, et surtout depuis la débâcle en Afghanistan en 2021, jamais les États-Unis n'ont fait face à une telle incertitude dans leur politique étrangère. Que s'est-il passé? Et que leur réserve l'avenir

An intimate conversation between towering public intellectuals examining the contentious interplay between the Cuban Revolution and U.S. empire An audacious revolutionary experiment in the backyard of empire, Cuba has occupied a vexed role in the international order for decades. Though its doctors (and fighters)—and the outsized influence of its example—have traversed the globe, from Venezuela to Angola, its political and economic future remain uncertain as the Castro era comes to a close and the U.S. embargo proceeds unabated. Through an intimate conversation between two of the country's most astute observers of international politics, Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad, On Cuba traces Cuban history from the early days of the 1950s revolution to the present, interrogating U.S. interventions and extracting lessons on U.S. power and influence in the Western Hemisphere along the way. Neither a jingoistic condemnation nor an uncritical celebration, Chomsky's heterodox approach to world affairs is on full display as he and Prashad grapple with Cuba's unique place on the international scene. In a media landscape saturated with half-truths and fake news, Chomsky and Prashad—“our own Frantz Fanon... [whose] writing of protest is always tinged with the beauty of hope” (Amitava Kumar, author of Immigrant, Montana)—seek to shed light on the truth of a complex and perennially controversial nation, while examining the limits of mainstream media discourse.

Neste livro, o influente linguista Noam Chomsky e seu colega de longa data, Andrea Moro, têm uma conversa abrangente, abordando tópicos como linguagem e linguística, história da ciência e a relação entre linguagem e cérebro. Moro instiga Chomsky a falar sobre a euforia equivocada atual em relação à inteligência artificial (Chomsky vê'muita propaganda e exagero'vindos do Vale do Silício), o estudo do cérebro (Chomsky destaca que descobertas de estudos cerebrais na década de 1950 nunca foram incorporadas à psicologia daquela época) e a aquisição de linguagem por crianças. Por sua vez, Chomsky convida Moro a descrever seus próprios experimentos, que provaram a existência de línguas impossíveis para o cérebro, línguas que apresentam propriedades surpreendentes e revelam segredos inesperados da mente humana.

Die Medien haben die Macht, einen gesellschaftlichen Konsens herzustellen, der den herrschenden wirtschaftlichen und politischen Interessen folgt - und nutzen sie. Diese Einflussnahme erfolgt jedoch keinesfalls durch verschwörerische Mächte im Hintergrund, sondern durch die ökonomischen Bedingungen der Medienlandschaft, die Chomsky und Herman schonungslos analysieren. Mit Manufacturing Consent legten sie ihr heute weltberühmtes Werk zur Medienkritik vor, das als der Klassiker zum Thema gilt - und nichts an Aktualität verloren hat. Die Autoren zeigen auf, auf welche Weise in den Medien Themen ausgewählt und besprochen werden, und machen so die Doppelmoral und die auf den Status quo ausgerichtete Voreingenommenheit sichtbar, die den Darstellungen der so viel gepriesenen'freien Presse'zugrunde liegen.

A wide-ranging and incisive collection of interviews with Noam Chomsky, addressing the urgent questions of this tumultuous moment.In these informative interviews, conducted for Truthout by C.J. Polychroniou, Noam Chomsky addresses the rapid deterioration of democracy in the United States and rising tensions globally. He examines the crumbling social fabric and fractures of the Biden era, including the halting steps toward a Green New Deal; the illegitimate authority of the Supreme Court, in particular its decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade; and the ongoing fallout from COVID-19. Chomsky also untangles the roots of the War in Ukraine, the diplomatic tensions among the United States, China, and Russia, and considers the need for climate action on an international scale.Throughout, Chomsky “remains…a beacon of hope in the darkest of times'(Sarah Jaffe).

«Pour ceux qui recherchent obstinément la liberté, il ne peut y avoir de tâche plus urgente que d'arriver à comprendre les mécanismes et les méthodes de l'endoctrinement. Ce sont des choses faciles à saisir dans les sociétés totalitaires, mais elles le sont beaucoup moins dans le système de “lavage de cerveau sous régime de liberté” auquel nous sommes soumis et que nous servons trop souvent en tant qu'instruments consentants ou inconscients.» Le rôle que Noam Chomsky s'est donné est justement de décrypter le vocabulaire des puissants et d'en comprendre les véritables enjeux. Et c'est à ce genre d'efforts qu'il nous convie ici.

Entre los intelectuales de izquierda, Noam Chomsky se distingue por su especial relación con el activismo, y por ser él mismo un activista político de larguísimo recorrido, además de un crítico implacable y clarividente. En este libro, que puede leerse como el legado de Chomsky a los activistas de hoy y de mañana, el intelectual estadounidense repasa por primera vez toda una vida de compromiso político, analizando con la agudeza acostumbrada los desafíos a los que se enfrentan los movimientos progresistas en todo el mundo occidental, así como el sentido del activismo frente a los complicados escenarios geopolíticos y socioeconómicos de la actualidad. Universalizar la resistencia es una guía que marca nuevas directivas para los activistas de hoy y que reflexiona sobre el significado y el valor del compromiso político en un mundo condicionado y transformado por acontecimientos como la pandemia y la crisis económica. Pero, alejándose del pesimismo apocalíptico de muchos politólogos contemporáneos, Chomsky deja filtrar en su análisis un reconfortarte destello de esperanza que pasa por la firme convicción de que el activismo puede ser ―como lo ha sido en el pasado― una poderosa herramienta para cambiar a mejor el curso de la historia.

Este livro expõe as conexões profundas – muitas vezes invisíveis – entre o'senso comum'neoliberal e o poder estrutural. Ao fazer essas ligações, vemos como a atual hegemonia mantém os movimentos de justiça social divididos e marginalizados. E, mais importante, vemos como podemos lutar para superar essas divisões. Uma cartilha essencial sobre capitalismo, política e como o mundo funciona.

Two of our most celebrated intellectuals grapple with the uncertain aftermath of the American collapse in Afghanistan “Through the structure of a deeply engaging conversation between two of our most important contemporary public intellectuals, we are urged to defy the inattention of the media to the disastrous damage inflicted in Afghanistan on life, land, and resources in the aftermath of the U.S. withdrawal and the connections to the equally avoidable and unnecessary wars on Iraq and Libya.”—from the foreword by Angela Y. Davis Not since the last American troops left Vietnam have we faced such a sudden vacuum in our foreign policy—not only of authority, but also of explanations of what happened, and what the future holds. Few analysts are better poised to address this moment than Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad, intellectuals and critics whose work spans generations and continents. Called “the most widely read voice on foreign policy on the planet” by the New York Times Book Review, Noam Chomsky is the guiding light of dissidents around the world. In The Withdrawal, Chomsky joins with noted scholar Vijay Prashad—who “helps to uncover the shining worlds hidden under official history and dominant media” (Eduardo Galeano)—to get at the roots of this unprecedented time of peril and change. Chomsky and Prashad interrogate key inflection points in America's downward spiral: from the disastrous Iraq War to the failed Libyan intervention to the descent into chaos in Afghanistan. As the final moments of American power in Afghanistan fade from view, this crucial book argues that we must not take our eyes off the wreckage—and that we need, above all, an unsentimental view of the new world we must build together.

Noam Chomsky and linguist Andrea Moro explore language, the history of science, Big Data and AI, and the mysteries of the human brain. Influential linguist Noam Chomsky and his longtime colleague Andrea Moro have a wide-ranging conversation, touching on such topics as language and linguistics, the history of science, and the relation between language and the brain. Chomsky discusses today's misplaced euphoria about artificial intelligence (Chomsky sees “lots of hype and propaganda” coming from Silicon Valley), the study of the brain (Chomsky points out that findings from brain studies in the 1950s never made it into that era's psychology), and language acquisition by children. Chomsky in turn invites Moro to describe his own experiments, which proved that there exist impossible languages for the brain, languages that show surprising properties and reveal unexpected secrets of the human mind. Chomsky once said, “It is important to learn to be surprised by simple facts”—“an expression of yours that has represented a fundamental turning point in my own personal life,” says Moro—and this is something of a theme in their conversation. Another theme is that not everything can be known; there may be permanent mysteries, about language and other matters. Not all words will give up their secrets.

Les entretiens avec Noam Chomsky rassemblés dans ce recueil ont été menés par C.J. Polychroniou entre 2018 et avril 2022. Le grand intellectuel et militant y parle de la fin et des séquelles du trumpisme, du dangereux centrisme de Biden et de l'espoir que représentent Sanders et Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez aux États-Unis. Il commente aussi la gestion de la pandémie de coronavirus, la crise climatique et les risques toujours plus élevés d'un conflit nucléaire, notamment depuis que la guerre en Ukraine a éclaté.

Conducted from 1984 to 1996, these interviews first appeared in the books Chronicles of Dissent, Keeping the Rabble in Line, and Class Warfare, all published by the independent publisher Common Courage Press in Monroe, Maine. This omnibus collection includes a new introduction by David Barsamian, looking back on conversations and engagement with Chomsky's ideas that now spans decades, as well as a classic essay by Alexander Cockburn on Chomsky that served as the introduction to one of the original volumes.

L'engagement politique de Noam Chomsky est inébranlable. Depuis plus de 70 ans, le célèbre linguiste du MIT est de tous les combats en faveur de l'égalité et de la justice sociale. Ce livre, composé en partie d'entretiens accordés à Charles Derber, Suren Moodliar et Paul Shannon, revient sur le parcours et l'héritage intellectuel de cet homme qui a pris le parti radical de la liberté et de la raison. Dans la première moitié, Chomsky parle des diverses causes qu'il a appuyées et de plusieurs événements marquants dont il a été témoin lors de ses nombreux voyages, des premières conférences qu'il a données dans les années 1940 jusqu'à sa visite au Brésil en 2018. Dans la seconde, il aborde la question – toujours d'actualité – de la confluence des intérêts de Trump et de ceux des grandes entreprises. Il ouvre également des pistes de réflexion sur la manière dont la pandémie de COVID-19 a mis au jour le caractère pathologique de la logique capitaliste. Fort de sa longue et riche expérience, Chomsky en appelle comme toujours à la convergence des luttes de la gauche progressiste. Devant l'ampleur des défis que nous avons collectivement à relever, c'est sans contredit l'aspiration la plus légitime de toute une vie consacrée au militantisme.

Noam Chomsky, il maestro che ha teorizzato la grammatica generativa, e Andrea Moro, l'allievo che ha rivoluzionato gli studi su linguaggio e cervello, si confrontano in una conversazione a tutto campo. Come si apprende una lingua da bambini? Esistono lingue impossibili? Qual è il contributo della neurobiologia alla struttura del linguaggio umano? Un dialogo appassionato sulla scienza del linguaggio, sui misteri che non sono ancora stati chiariti e che forse non lo saranno mai. In questa breve storia della relazione tra parole e cervello, incontrando Cartesio, Galileo, Newton e Turing, esploreremo i confini di Babele, verificheremo quanto è rischioso immaginare lingue perfette e metteremo alla prova l'euforia sull'intelligenza artificiale. Per scoprire, infine, che le parole sono importanti perché parlano di noi, e come noi hanno proprietà sorprendenti, talvolta nascoste come segreti molto ben custoditi.

En este libro, Noam Chomsky expone las causas de la invasión de Ucrania iniciada por Rusia en febrero de 2022, partiendo de dos premisas fundamentales: por un lado, estamos ante «un grave crimen de guerra por el que hay que buscar explicaciones, pero que no tiene ni justificaciones ni atenuantes»; por el otro, estamos asistiendo a un movimiento expansivo de la OTAN hacia el este, que merece ser destacado y analizado. A lo largo de ocho entrevistas que citan documentos confidenciales y explican las dinámicas más complejas de las relaciones entre Rusia, Estados Unidos, la Alianza Atlántica, la UE y China, Chomsky ofrece al lector lo que los medios de comunicación raramente logran proporcionar: la posibilidad de comprender las razones más profundas del conflicto y lo que en ello está en juego, reflexionando a la vez sobre las consecuencias y las reacciones a nivel económico, político y militar en el resto del mundo. Acompañan las entrevistas unos textos del politólogo Pablo Bustinduy, cuyo foco analítico se centra en el papel de Europa ante la guerra ruso-ucraniana y en la necesidad de la UE de encontrar su lugar dentro del nuevo orden internacional del siglo XXI.

Noam Chomsky dissects the multiple crises facing humankind and the planet; and provides a road map for resistance.In this completely original set of interviews between the legendary duo of Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian, the two confront topics such as the pandemic, the wealth gap (made worse because of the pandemic), climate destruction, the increasing power of the corporate owned media, systematic racism, Big Tech, and more. Noam Chomsky is one of the most cited scholars in human history. He ranks right up there with Aristotle and Marx, and this book reaffirms his esteemed reputation. Notes on Resistance will inspire all those struggling for human liberation.

In The Precipice, Noam Chomsky sheds light into the phenomenon of Trumpism, exposes the catastrophic nature and impact of Trump's policies on people, the environment, and the planet as a whole, and captures the dynamics of the brutal class warfare launched by the masters of capital to maintain and even enhance the features of a dog-eat–dog society to the unprecedented mobilization of millions of people against neoliberal capitalism, racism, and police violence/

Balcanii, mai ales turbulentul teritoriu ex-iugoslav, au fost printre cele mai importante regiuni ale lumii în reflecțiile și activismul politic al lui Noam Chomsky în ultimele două decenii. În articolele sale, în cuvântările publice și în corespondență a abordat unele dintre problemele politice și sociale cruciale (cum ar fi relevanța dreptului internațional în politica de azi, manipulările din media și criza economică drept mijloc de control politic) care afectează atât regiunea, cât și comunitatea internațională. Acest volum oferă o imagine cuprinzătoare asupra tuturor textelor și discursurilor lui Chomsky care se axează pe zona fostei Iugoslavii, din 1970 până în prezent. Având numeroase articole și interviuri, această culegere prezintă un tezaur de materiale care apar sub forma unei cărți pentru prima dată, odată cu reflecțiile lui asupra evenimentelor, la 25 de ani de la sfârșitul oficial al Iugoslaviei comuniste și începutul războiului din Bosnia.Noam Chomsky este profesor lau­reat la Universitatea Arizona și profe­sor emerit la Departamentul de Ling­vistică și Filosofie de la MIT. Opera sa este unanim apreciată pentru că a revo­lu­țio­nat lingvistica modernă și este conside­rat unul dintre cei mai cunoscuți critici ai politicii externe a SUA. A publicat numeroase cărți, articole și eseuri despre politică globală, istorie și lingvistică. Printre cele mai recente cărți ale sale se numără Cine conduce lumea? (Editura Litera, 2018) și Hopes and Prospects.Davor Džalto este profesor asociat și director de programe la Universitatea Americană din Roma și președinte al Institutului pentru Studiul Culturii și al Creștinismului. Domeniile de inte­res pentru cercetările sale includ istoria și politica din Balcani, teologia politică și filosofia religiei.„Pentru oricine dorește să afle mai multe despre lumea în care trăim... există un singur răspuns: citiți-l pe Noam Chomsky.“New Statesman„Chomsky este un fenomen global...“New York Times Book Review„Cu logică de fier, Chomsky ne face să ascultăm mai atent ce au să ne zică liderii noștri și să ne dăm seama ce nu ne spun... Fie că suntem de acord cu el sau nu, avem de pierdut dacă nu îl ascultăm.“Businessweek

'Niemand außer Noam Chomsky verbindet so leidenschaftlich die beiden vom Menschen verursachten Bedrohungen mit unserer Existenz – den katastrophalen Klimawandel und die nuklearen Weltuntergangsmaschinen.'Daniel Ellsberg, Whistleblower der Pentagon-Papiere Eindrücklich wie nie zuvor klärt Chomsky über die existentiellen Bedrohungen durch Atomwaffen und den Klimawandel auf. Er stellt diese Bedrohungen in den Kontext einer nie dagewesenen globalen Macht der Konzerne, die mittlerweile die führende Rolle bei der Gestaltung unserer Zukunft übernommen haben. Noam Chomsky zeigt, dass sich globale Volksbewegungen mobilisieren müssen, um die Regierungen zu zwingen, sich der beispiellosen Herausforderung für das Überleben unserer Zivilisation zu stellen.

Is our'common sense'understanding of the world a reflection of the ruling class's demands of the larger society? If we are to challenge the capitalist structures that now threaten all life on the planet, Chomsky and Waterstone forcefully argue that we must look closely at the everyday tools we use to interpret the world. Consequences of Capitalism make the deep, often unseen connections between common sense and power. In making these linkages we see how the current hegemony keep social justice movements divided and marginalized. More importantly, we see how we overcome these divisions.

Qui sommes-nous? Que pouvons-nous savoir? Que nous est-il permis d'espérer? En réfléchissant à ces trois questions classiques, Noam Chomsky présente dans cet essai un tour d'horizon de l'ensemble de sa pensée. Revenant sur sa conception du langage et de l'esprit, puis de la société et de la politique, il conclut son brillant exposé par un plaidoyer pour ce qu'il appelle le « socialisme libertaire », qu'il lie à l'anarchisme et aux idées de John Dewey, ainsi qu'à certaines des convictions de Marx et de Mill.

Si nous voulons ébranler, voire abolir, les structures capitalistes qui menacent aujourd'hui toute vie sur la planète, Noam Chomsky et Marv Waterstone affirment avec force qu'il faut commencer par réévaluer les outils que nous utilisons pour interpréter le monde. C'est ce qu'ils démontrent dans ce livre tiré d'un cours qu'ils ont donné ensemble à l'université de l'Arizona, en faisant ressortir les liens souvent imperceptibles entre la fabrique du sens commun et le pouvoir. Cet ouvrage didactique et incisif est une véritable leçon d'autodéfense contre l'hégémonie contemporaine, le réalisme capitaliste.