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Noam Chomsky Books
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Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as noam-chomsky)
avg rating 4.40 — 9,709 ratings — published 2002
Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as noam-chomsky)
avg rating 3.97 — 14,170 ratings — published 2003
Chomsky On Anarchism (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as noam-chomsky)
avg rating 3.83 — 11,825 ratings — published 2005
Who Rules the World? (American Empire Project)
by (shelved 27 times as noam-chomsky)
avg rating 4.04 — 12,734 ratings — published 2014
Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as noam-chomsky)
avg rating 4.02 — 7,392 ratings — published 1998
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as noam-chomsky)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,441 ratings — published 1988
Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as noam-chomsky)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,834 ratings — published 1995
Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as noam-chomsky)
avg rating 3.98 — 5,861 ratings — published 2006
How the World Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as noam-chomsky)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,430 ratings — published 2011
On Palestine (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as noam-chomsky)
avg rating 4.25 — 13,683 ratings — published 2015
Global Discontents: Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy (The American Empire Project)
by (shelved 16 times as noam-chomsky)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,829 ratings — published 2017
Requiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power (ebook)
by (shelved 15 times as noam-chomsky)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,969 ratings — published 2017
Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as noam-chomsky)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,216 ratings — published 1982
Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as noam-chomsky)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,309 ratings — published 2005
Propaganda and the Public Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as noam-chomsky)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,280 ratings — published 1998
9-11 (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as noam-chomsky)
avg rating 3.74 — 4,190 ratings — published 2001
What We Say Goes: Conversations on U.S. Power in a Changing World (American Empire Project)
by (shelved 12 times as noam-chomsky)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,387 ratings — published 2007
Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as noam-chomsky)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,270 ratings — published 2010
Power Systems: Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire (American Empire Project)
by (shelved 11 times as noam-chomsky)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,677 ratings — published 2012
Deterring Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as noam-chomsky)
avg rating 4.06 — 913 ratings — published 1989
Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as noam-chomsky)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,148 ratings — published 1999
What Kind of Creatures Are We? (Columbia Themes in Philosophy)
by (shelved 10 times as noam-chomsky)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,618 ratings — published 2015
Optimism over Despair: On Capitalism, Empire, and Social Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as noam-chomsky)
avg rating 3.70 — 2,015 ratings — published 2017
Hopes and Prospects (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as noam-chomsky)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,753 ratings — published 2010
Power and Terror: Post-9/11 Talks and Interviews (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as noam-chomsky)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,052 ratings — published 2003
Because We Say So (City Lights Open Media)
by (shelved 9 times as noam-chomsky)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,575 ratings — published 2015
Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as noam-chomsky)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,578 ratings — published 1989
Year 501: The Conquest Continues (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as noam-chomsky)
avg rating 4.15 — 755 ratings — published 1992
What Uncle Sam Really Wants (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as noam-chomsky)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,673 ratings — published 1991
Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as noam-chomsky)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,752 ratings — published 2020
On Western Terrorism: From Hiroshima to Drone Warfare (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as noam-chomsky)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,121 ratings — published 2013
Pirates and Emperors, Old and New (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as noam-chomsky)
avg rating 3.96 — 620 ratings — published 1986
American Power and the New Mandarins: Historical and Political Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as noam-chomsky)
avg rating 4.12 — 473 ratings — published 1967
The Responsibility of Intellectuals (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 8 times as noam-chomsky)
avg rating 3.88 — 933 ratings — published
Language and Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as noam-chomsky)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,334 ratings — published 1968
Making the Future: Occupations, Interventions, Empire and Resistance (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as noam-chomsky)
avg rating 3.83 — 667 ratings — published 2010
The Culture of Terrorism (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as noam-chomsky)
avg rating 4.00 — 387 ratings — published 1988
Perilous Power: The Middle East & US Foreign Policy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as noam-chomsky)
avg rating 3.97 — 498 ratings — published 2006
The Essential Chomsky (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as noam-chomsky)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,670 ratings — published 2008
The Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as noam-chomsky)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,641 ratings — published 2020
Occupy (Occupied Media Pamphlet Series)
by (shelved 6 times as noam-chomsky)
avg rating 3.59 — 2,256 ratings — published 2012
Problems of Knowledge and Freedom: The Russell Lectures (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as noam-chomsky)
avg rating 3.69 — 312 ratings — published 1972
Keeping the Rabble in Line: Interviews With David Barsamian (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as noam-chomsky)
avg rating 3.87 — 232 ratings — published 1994
Powers and Prospects: Reflections on Human Nature & the Social Order (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as noam-chomsky)
avg rating 3.82 — 359 ratings — published 1996
Government in the Future (Open Media Series)
by (shelved 6 times as noam-chomsky)
avg rating 3.87 — 750 ratings — published 1970
Secrets, Lies and Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as noam-chomsky)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,119 ratings — published 1994
On Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as noam-chomsky)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,082 ratings — published 1998
The Precipice: Neoliberalism, the Pandemic, and the Urgent Need for Radical Change (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as noam-chomsky)
avg rating 3.78 — 696 ratings — published 2021
The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as noam-chomsky)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,082 ratings — published 1974
Internationalism or Extinction (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as noam-chomsky)
avg rating 3.75 — 584 ratings — published 2019
“Suppose a top politician, entertainment figure, or sports star said it didn't really matter who shot Lincoln or why, who attacked Pearl Harbor, the Alamo or the USS Liberty. Imagine the derision. Imagine the ridicule. Imagine the loss in credibility and marketing revenue. Now imagine if a well-respected academic 'who should know better' said exactly the same thing. It doesn't really matter who committed a great crime; history had nothing to teach us; we should never waste precious time trying to apprehend the perpetrators, nor understand their motives but focus only on the outcome of their foul deeds.
Well, that is exactly what Noam Chomsky appears to believe. Do not focus on the plot or the plotters or the clever planning of any crime but only the aftermath. Strangely, I had always thought linguistics was the scientific study of language rather than a lame attempt at disinformation.”
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Well, that is exactly what Noam Chomsky appears to believe. Do not focus on the plot or the plotters or the clever planning of any crime but only the aftermath. Strangely, I had always thought linguistics was the scientific study of language rather than a lame attempt at disinformation.”
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“My quarrel with Chomsky goes back to the Balkan wars of the 1990s, where he more or less openly represented the "Serbian Socialist Party" (actually the national-socialist and expansionist dictatorship of Slobodan Milosevic) as the victim. Many of us are proud of having helped organize to prevent the slaughter and deportation of Europe's oldest and largest and most tolerant Muslim minority, in Bosnia-Herzegovina and in Kosovo. But at that time, when they were real, Chomsky wasn't apparently interested in Muslim grievances. He only became a voice for that when the Taliban and Al Qaeda needed to be represented in their turn as the victims of a "silent genocide" in Afghanistan. Let me put it like this, if a supposed scholar takes the Christian-Orthodox side when it is the aggressor, and then switches to taking the "Muslim" side when Muslims commit mass murder, I think that there is something very nasty going on. And yes, I don't think it is exaggerated to describe that nastiness as "anti-American" when the power that stops and punishes both aggressions is the United States.”
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