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"One great achievement of the 18th century was to create the ideas and in part even the basic forms of political democracy, including the protection of the rights of the person against authoritarian power. Bit ut remains an unfulfilled goal to expand the democracy beyond the narrow arena which it partially functions, to all of social and economic life, with true control by producers over production and investment, and the elimination of structures of hierarchy and domination in the state system, the private economy, and much of social life. - The record of anarchist ideas, and even more, of the inspiring struggles of people who have sought to liberate themselves from oppression and domination, must be treasured and preservaed, not as a means of freezing thought and conception in some new mold but as a basis for understanding of the social reality and committed work to change it. There is no reason to suppose that history is at an end, that the current structures of authority and domination are graven in stone." - Noam Chomsky (On Anarchism, 151-152). I would warn potential readers berfore purchasing, this book is largely a collection of essays that have already been printed in Chomsky texts. More specifically, "On Anarchism" contains sections and/or essays from "For Reasons of State," "Towards A New Cold War," and also, "Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship."

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