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Title: The Common Good by Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian, Arthur Naiman ISBN: 1-878825-08-9 Publisher: Odonian Press Pub. Date: October, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.92 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: excellent work
Comment: chomsky adresses a number of key issues in a very insightful way and provides food for thought, arguments, and ideas to fight against corporate power. as always, he is undoubtedly one of the best at expressing his ideas clearly.
if you are interested in how corporations control public institutions, are really anything *but* interested in free markets, how the US has been for the longest time supporting terror regimes around the world to protect its interests, how the general aim of power is to generalize the third world situation by brainwashing and empoverishing the general population even in the US, and why the third world debt is nothing but a farce, check this book out.
the reviewers dissing this book have probably not stepped a foot in the real world, where wages are going down, corporations lay off while at the same time recording amazing profits, and the trend of moving to third world countries for a cheaper workforce while destroying american jobs is becoming more and more common.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Good Introduction to Chomsky
Comment: The Common Good is a clever and concise primer focusing on the blight of globalization, and the derailing of democracy in the United States. The book is presented in an interview format, and if I have any complaint, it's that the book is too short. Chomsky has been accused of being too dense, but this book is readily accessible and enlightening. I would caution you to ignore the calls that his information is erronous and do some investigative work yourself. You'll see who's correct.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Common Good is Quite Good
Comment: One of the benefits of reading Chomsky is that transcriptions of his interviews have all the discursive force, factual allusions and political insight of his prose works. Chomsky never disappoints.
The premise of this work is that economic equality vouchsafes the common good and in fact, historically, democracy is unthinkable without it:
"The idea that wealth and democracy can't exist side by side runs right through the Enlightenment and classical liberalism, including major figures like de Tocqueville, Adam Smith, Jefferson and others. It was more or less assumed"(p. 6).
The book then takes up how "radical [economic] inequality" became the norm and instantiates itself in the USA and elsewhere in the world. The book also contains interesting discussions about the role of the left and pseudo-left in addressing issues concerning the common good as well as strategies for individuals to promote the common good.
A helpful list of organizations that promote the common good appear at the end, making the effect of the entire work both theoretically grounded and practically useful.
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Title: Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda by Noam Chomsky ISBN: 1583225366 Publisher: Seven Stories Press Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: What Uncle Sam Really Wants by Noam Chomsky, Arthur Naiman, David Barsamian ISBN: 1878825011 Publisher: Odonian Press Pub. Date: October, 1992 List Price(USD): $8.50 |
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Title: Profit Over People: Neoliberalism & Global Order by Noam Chomsky, Robert Waterman McChesney, Robert W. McChesney ISBN: 1888363827 Publisher: Seven Stories Press Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Secrets, Lies, and Democracy by Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian ISBN: 1878825046 Publisher: Odonian Press Pub. Date: October, 1994 List Price(USD): $9.00 |
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Title: Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky by Noam Chomsky, John Schoeffel, Peter R. Mitchell, Peter Mitchell ISBN: 1565847032 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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