[Peace-discuss] Noam Chomsky, speech on receiving the Sydney Peace Prize

[Carl G. Estabrook]

[Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Noam Chomsky has been  
awarded this year’s Sydney Peace Prize, Australia’s only international  
peace prize. This is a full transcript of Professor Chomsky’s City of  
Sydney Peace Prize Lecture, “Revolutionary Pacifism: Choices and  
Prospects”, reproduced with permission from the Sydney Peace  
Foundation.]

Noam Chomsky: can revolutionary pacificism deliver peace?

"...we might recall a truism of Latin American scholarship, reiterated  
by historian John Coatsworth in the recently published Cambridge  
University History of the Cold War: from 1960 to 'the Soviet collapse  
in 1990, the numbers of political prisoners, torture victims, and  
executions of nonviolent political dissenters in Latin America vastly  
exceeded those in the Soviet Union and its East European satellites.'  
Among the executed were many religious martyrs, and there were mass  
slaughters as well, consistently supported or initiated by  
Washington..."

Full text at <http://theconversation.edu.au/noam-chomsky-can-revolutionary-pacificism-deliver-peace-4150 
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