Katya’s Reviews > Surviving the 21st Century > Status Update

we must transcend the model of hierarchical and repressive societies, in which only a few give orders and the rest must obey them.(.) If we look to the early stages of industrialization, workers regarded what they called wage slavery as something akin to classical slavery.(.)Over time, this has been engrained in the general consciousness as normality, and it must be eradicated from our consciousness.
[Chomsky]

My generation made a naïve error. We believed that social change was only a matter of challenging modes of production and distribution in society. We did not understand the immense role of culture. Capitalism is a culture, and we must respond to and resist capitalism with a different culture. Another way to put this: we are in a struggle between a culture of solidarity and a culture of selfishness.
[Mujica]

The two awesome challenges to decent survival are, of course, nuclear weapons and environmental catastrophe. The best defense would be a functioning democracy in which informed and engaged citizens join together to develop means to overcome the threats—as can be done.
[Chomsky]

Latin America is a collection of fragmented countries. We have mestizo people, we have indigenous populations and African and Mediterranean blood. Latin America is a synthesis of refuge, oppression and slavery and yet, being born late, it endeavors and struggles to build hope for all humanity.
[Mujica]

A Jewish state was a mistake, and once established, it became a state like any other. On the left, we were in favor of cooperation between the Jewish working class and the Palestinian community. That was part of the Zionist movement back then, although it’s hard to believe today.
[Chomsky]