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CHOMSKY ON ANARCHISM
16 For references here and below, where not otherwise cited, see my Turning the Tide
(Bosron: South End, 1985); Necessary /llusiom (Sourh End Press, 1989). For Lansing
and Wilson, Lloyd Gardner, Safe for Democracy (Oxford Uiversity Press, 1987), pp.
157, 161,261, 242.
17 Wa ll Street journal, December 13, 1973.
1 8 For fu rther discussion and references, see Necessary Illusions, appendix V, section 8.
19 Levy, op. cit. , pp. 178-9, 297, 337ff.; Levy, jeffirson and Civil Liberties: the Darker
Side (Harvard University Press, 1963; Ivan Dee, 1989, pp. 25().
2 0 Cited by Levy, Ibid. , 45.
21 See Christopher Frew, "Craven evasion on the threat to freedom," Scotsman, Aug.
3, 1989, referring to the shameful behavior of Paul Johnson and Hugh Trevor­
Roper-who were, unfortunately, far from aJone. Rushdie was charged with seditious
libel and blasphemy in the courtS, bur the High COUrt ruled that the law of blasphemy
extended only to Christianity, not Islam, and that only verbal attack "against
Her Majesty or Her Majesty's Government or some Nher institution of the state"
counts as seditious libel (New York Times, April 10, 1990). Thus the Court upheld
the basic doctrines of the Ayatollah Khomeini, Stalin, Goebbels, and other opponents
of freedom, while recognizing that English law, like that of its counterparts,
protects only domestic power hom criticism.
22 Quoted in British jo urnalism Review, Vol. 1, No. 2, Winter 1990.
23 levy, Emergence, pp. xvii, 6, 9, 102; Harry Kalven, A Worthy Tradition (Harper &
Row, 1988), pp. 63, 227f., 121f.
177
24 Cited by Herbert Schiller, The Corporate Takeover of Public Expression (Oxford
University Press, 1989).
25 McCann, An American Company (Crown, 1976), p. 45. On the ludicrous perfo
rmance of the media, see also my Tu rning the Tide (South End, 1985), pp. 164f.
See also William Preston and Ellen Ray, "Disinformation and mass deception:
democracy as a cover story," in Richard O. Curry, ed., Freedom at Risk (Temple
University Press, 1988).
26 Clinton Rossiter & James Lare, Th e Es sential Lippman: a Political Philosophy for
Liberal Democracy (Vintage, 1965).
27 Cited from secret documents by RR.A. Marlin, "Propaganda and the Ethics of
Persuasion," Imernational}ournalof Moral and Social Studies, Spring 1989. For more
on these maners, see my "Imellecmals and the State," Huizinga lecture, Leiden,
December 1977; reprinted in my Towards a New Cold war (Pantheon, 1982).
28 For some details, see my article "Democracy in the Industrial Societies," Z
Magazine, January 1989, and sources cited.
29 Pastor, Condemned to Repetition (Princeton University Press, 1987, p. 32), his
emphasis.