WeiWuWei World Republic Party Member
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| Subject: Chomsky on justice, law, and the State. Fri Mar 20, 2009 6:14 pm | |
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Black_Cross Chairman of the WR Committee
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| Subject: Re: Chomsky on justice, law, and the State. Fri Mar 20, 2009 8:45 pm | |
| Tight. Don't think i would've ever found that if you didn't post it, thanks.
I guess when he's talking about legality he's refering to it as a customary thing, rather than something enforced by authority.
I think he's right when he says that his presence at MIT isn't, basically, hypocritical, but for a specific reason that he didn't mention (stickin' it to the man is cool and all, but i don't think that's exactly why), that is that MIT isn't exclusively an institute of war, or of the state. It's resources, as he said, allow it to be a tool that can be used to reach people who otherwise wouldn't be. Just the same, i don't think working for the government, as in being on their pay-roll, is necessarily wrong. It's only as you move higher up into positions of authority where you run into problems. | |
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