Making the Future: Occupations, Interventions, Empire and Resistance

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Making the Future presents more than thirty concise and persuasively argued commentaries on U.S. politics and policies, written between 2007 and 2010. Noam Chomsky takes on a wide range of hot-button issues including the ongoing financial crisis, Obama’s presidency, the limits of the two-party system, nuclear Iran, Afghanistan, Israel-Palestine, Iraq, North Korea, Mexico, corporate power, and the future of American politics. Laced throughout his critiques are expressions of commitment to democracy and the power of popular struggles. “Progressive legislation and social welfare,” writes Chomsky, “have been won by popular struggles, not gifts from above. Those struggles follow a cycle of success and setback. They must be waged every day, not just once every four years, always with the goal of creating a genuinely responsive democratic society, from the voting booth to the workplace.”

Making the Future is a follow-up to Interventions, published by City Lights in 2007 and banned from Guantánamo Bay by U.S. military censors. Both books are drawn from articles Chomsky has been writing regularly for the New York Times Syndicate, but which go largely ignored by newspapers in the United States. Making the Future offers fierce, accessible, timely, gloves-off political writing by one of America's foremost intellectual and political dissidents.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Noam Chomsky has taught for many years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is Institute Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy. His 1957 book Syntactic Structures is widely credited with having revolutionized the field of modern linguistics. Chomsky is the author of numerous best-selling political works. Among his latest books are 9-11 (Seven Stories Press), Rogue States (South End Press), Understanding Power (New Press), and Hegemony or Survival (Metropolitan/Owl).

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