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Avram Noam Chomsky (/ n oʊ m ˈ tʃ ɒ m s k i / ⓘ nohm CHOM-skee; born December 7, 1928) is an American professor and public intellectual known for his work in linguistics, political activism, and social criticism.
Counter-Revolutionary Violence: Bloodbaths in Fact & Propaganda is a 1973 book by Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman, with a preface by Richard A. Falk.It presented the thesis that the "United States, in attempting to suppress revolutionary movements in underdeveloped countries, had become the leading source of violence against native people".
The Cambridge Companion to Chomsky is a 2005 book that surveys the thought and influence of Noam Chomsky. Edited by James McGilvray and published by Cambridge University Press in their Cambridge Companions series, the book received a second edition in 2017.
Decoding Chomsky: Science and Revolutionary Politics is a 2016 book by the anthropologist Chris Knight on Noam Chomsky's approach to politics and science. Knight admires Chomsky's politics, but argues that his linguistic theories were influenced in damaging ways by his immersion since the early 1950s in an intellectual culture heavily dominated by US military priorities, an immersion deepened ...
Chomsky is often described as one of the best-known figures of the American Left, although he doesn't agree with the usage of the term.He has described himself as a "fellow traveller" to the anarchist tradition, and refers to himself as a libertarian socialist, a political philosophy he summarizes as challenging all forms of authority and attempting to eliminate them if they are unjustified ...
Noam Chomsky, seen by many around the world as a symbol of protest and independence, is an influential activist and critic who has frequently challenged U.S. policy on everything from the Middle ...
In February 2017, on the 50th anniversary of the essay's publication, a conference was held at University College London. [4] In 2019, a book based on this conference was published entitled, The Responsibility of Intellectuals: Reflections by Noam Chomsky and others after 50 years and edited by three Chomsky biographers, Nicholas Allott, Chris Knight and Neil Smith. [5]
British-American journalist Mehdi Hasan posted to his 1.5 million X followers: “Sending prayers Noam’s way. There has been no one else like him in our lifetime.” Jon Schwarz, a former senior ...