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Chomsky has been a consistent and outspoken critic of the United States government, and criticism of the foreign policy of the United States has formed the basis of much of his political writing. Chomsky gives reasons for directing his activist efforts to the state of which he is a citizen.
This essay touches on all of these questions: on Muste’s revolutionary pacifism and his interpretation of it in connection with the Second World War; on the backgrounds of Japan’s imperial ventures; on the Western reaction and responsibility; and, by implication, on the relevance of these matters to the problems of contemporary imperialism ...
Chomsky has been a prominent critic of "American imperialism", [188] but is not a pacifist, believing World War II was justified as America's last defensive war. [189] He believes that U.S. foreign policy 's basic principle is the establishment of "open societies" that are economically and politically controlled by the U.S. and where U.S.-based ...
Jun 16, 2024 · “I am not a committed pacifist. I would not hold that it is under all imaginable circumstances wrong to use violence, even though use of violence is in some sense unjust. I believe that one has to estimate relative justices.
Oct 25, 2009 · Noam Chomsky denied that he was a complete pacifist. He supported the Allied military response to Hitler, and when pressed he accepted that the British intervention in Sierra Leone...
Nov 1, 2011 · He urged that “one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist” — by which he meant that we must cease to “acquiesce [so] easily in evil conditions,” and must deal “honestly and adequately with this ninety percent of our problem” — “the violence on which the present system is based, and all the evil — material and ...
Mar 23, 2003 · Chomsky is not a pacifist on principle, but when it comes to the United States he has never supported an intervention.
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