[lbo-talk] Chomsky quote

[B.]

"Instead of the comforting rationale that merit breeds
success and the successful have merit, a more rational
approach would be to speculate that in our society
wealth and power tend to accrue to those who are
ruthless, cunning, avaricious, self-seeking, lacking
in sympathy and compassion, subservient to authority
and willing to abandon principle for material gain…"
—Noam Chomsky

That's how the quote was put on the list. I do not
know the source.

B

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"I'm not too worried by hegemony / I know the cadre will look after me" - Magazine, "Model Worker," 1978