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Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it.

~Noam Chomsky

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Civil disobedience's main goal typically is to try to arouse and inspire others to join and do something. Well, sometimes that is a good tactic, sometimes not.

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If a child from an Amazonian hunter-gatherer tribe comes to Boston, is raised in Boston, that child will be indistinguishable in language capacities from my children growing up here, and vice versa.

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Historical grammar is a study of how, say, modern English developed from Middle English, and how that developed from Early and Old English, and how that developed from Germanic, and that developed from what's called Proto-Indo-European, a source system that nobody speaks, so you have to try to reconstruct it.

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Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual, whatever you happen to be studying.

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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way. It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict - which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.

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All through Latin America, there's sharp condemnation of the criminal atrocities of Sept. 11. But it's qualified by the observation that although these are horrible atrocities, they are not unfamiliar.

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Armed attack has a definition in international law. It means sudden, overwhelming, instantaneous ongoing attack.

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My speculation is that the U.S. does not want to establish the principle that it has to defer to some higher authority before carrying out the use of violence.

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I've been interested in Japan since the 1930s, when I read about Japan's vicious crimes in Manchuria and China.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: December 7th, 1928

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