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Noam Chomsky Quotes: Noam Chomsky on intellectual property
That’s a very interesting question. It has an interesting history. The World Trade Organization, the Uruguay round that set up the World Trade Organization imposed, it’s called a “free trade agreement”. It’s in fact a highly protectionist agreement. The US is strongly opposed to free trade, just…
Economy is run by a network of command economies called corporations. What goes on internal to a corporation or a mega corporation is not free trade, it is command economy.
The corporations plainly want academic scholarship to create a web of mystification that will avoid any public awareness of the way in which power actually functions in the society, and the faculty has caught the message and they do it magnificently.