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  1. Noam Chomsky _ On Anarchism

    power that isn't really justified by the will of the governed should be dismantled.
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  2. Noam Chomsky _ On Anarchism

    Institutional structures are legitimate insofar as they enhance the opportunity to freely inquire and create, out of inner need; otherwise, they are not.
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  3. Noam Chomsky _ On Anarchism

    With regard to freedom of speech there are basically two positions: you defend it vigorously for views you hate, or you reject it and prefer Stalinist/fascist standards. It is unfortunate that it remains necessary to stress these simple truths.
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  4. Noam Chomsky _ On Anarchism

    The idea that we must choose between the method of "winning hearts and minds" and the method of shaping behavior presumes that we have the right to choose at all. This is to grant us a right that we would surely accord to no other power. Yet the overwhelming body of American scholarship accords us this right.
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  5. Noam Chomsky _ On Anarchism

    The public must be reduced to passivity in the political realm, but for submissiveness to become a reliable trait, it must be entrenched in the realm of belief as well.
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  6. Noam Chomsky _ On Anarchism

    For the anarchist, freedom is not an abstract philosophical concept, but the vital concrete possibility for every human being to bring to full development all the powers, capacities, and talents with which nature has endowed him, and turn them to social account.
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