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In Making the Future, Noam Chomsky takes on a wide range of hot-button issues including the ongoing financial crisis, Obama's presidency, the limits of the two-party system, nuclear Iran, Afghanistan, Israel-Palestine, corporate power, and the future of American politics. Laced throughout his critiques are expressions of commitment to democracy and the power of popular struggles. 'Progressive legislation and social welfare,' writes Chomsky, 'have been won by popular struggles, not gifts from above. Those struggles follow a cycle of success and setback. They must be waged every day, not just once every four years, always with the goal of creating a genuinely responsive democratic society, from the voting booth to the workplace.'
Making the Future offers fierce, accessible, timely, gloves-off political writing by one of the world's foremost intellectual and political dissidents.
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Noam Chomsky is the author of numerous bestselling political books, including Hegemony or Survival, Failed States, Interventions, What We Say Goes, Hopes and Prospects and Gaza in Crisis, all of which are published by Hamish Hamilton/Penguin. He is an Institute Professor (Emeritus) in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT, and is widely credited with having revolutionized modern linguistics.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
"Making The Future" is Chomskys second collection of short editorial articles (roughly 5 or 6 book pages dealing with a subject that was of current interest) and takes up the baton from where 2007's Interventions concludes and carries it forward to the autumn of 2012. All of the articles were made available for publication worldwide from the New York Times Syndicate, whose senior editor John Stickney provides a short introduction.
The nature of the format prohibits in-depth analysis but Chomsky does provide the reader with 52 clear and concise antidotes to a mainstream news coverage that is often ahistorical, written within the limited world view of established power and deeply hypocritical. Subjects covered include the Israel-United States-Palestine confrontation; Iraq; the War in Afghanistan/Pakistan; the post credit crunch recessions; Nuclear Weapons in the Middle East, South Asia and North Korea; the conflicts in Georgia, Libya and Somalia as well as the possible conflict to come with Iran; the Arab Spring; Barack Obamas ascent to the presidency on the back of revulsion at the Bush II years and rapid descent into business as usual; the extra judicial killing of Osama bin Laden. It's not all doom and gloom as Chomsky also writes on what he quite reasonably sees as positive developments within Latin America and the collection ends with an abridged version of a speech he gave to the Occupy Boston movement.
"Making The Future" is a fine collection that provokes the reader to think about events in the contemporary world in a humane, honest and critical manner. This is a book that I'd recommended reading with the caveat that the content will be familiar to those who regularly follow Chomskys writings on the internet.
The nature of the format prohibits in-depth analysis but Chomsky does provide the reader with 52 clear and concise antidotes to a mainstream news coverage that is often ahistorical, written within the limited world view of established power and deeply hypocritical. Subjects covered include the Israel-United States-Palestine confrontation; Iraq; the War in Afghanistan/Pakistan; the post credit crunch recessions; Nuclear Weapons in the Middle East, South Asia and North Korea; the conflicts in Georgia, Libya and Somalia as well as the possible conflict to come with Iran; the Arab Spring; Barack Obamas ascent to the presidency on the back of revulsion at the Bush II years and rapid descent into business as usual; the extra judicial killing of Osama bin Laden. It's not all doom and gloom as Chomsky also writes on what he quite reasonably sees as positive developments within Latin America and the collection ends with an abridged version of a speech he gave to the Occupy Boston movement.
"Making The Future" is a fine collection that provokes the reader to think about events in the contemporary world in a humane, honest and critical manner. This is a book that I'd recommended reading with the caveat that the content will be familiar to those who regularly follow Chomskys writings on the internet.
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Noam Chomsky's latest, Making the Future, is a collection of previously printed New York Times opinion-editorials, taken from 2007 to 2011. Unlike Chomsky's previous book, Hopes and Prospects, there is no attempt here at presenting this as anything other than a series of unconnected articles (it should also be noted that this book is of an unusually small size and printed on particularly poor quality paper).
Making the Future contains over fifty articles, each around four or five pages long. Therefore, what you gain in range, you lack in depth. However, this book is the perfect introduction for those who have never read any Chomsky before, given that if you are not interested in one particular subject, there are numerous others that might be of interest; subjects include the 2008 U.S. election, the financial crisis, Israel, Palestine, Iran, Iraq, Latin America and numerous others.
For those who don't have much time available to read (perfect for commuters or to be read while eating a sandwich at your desk at work), Making the Future is typical Chomsky but in bite-sized chunks. For those of you familiar with his work, there is a reasonable chance that you will already have read some of these pieces but you might appreciate having them all collected in one book.
Making the Future contains over fifty articles, each around four or five pages long. Therefore, what you gain in range, you lack in depth. However, this book is the perfect introduction for those who have never read any Chomsky before, given that if you are not interested in one particular subject, there are numerous others that might be of interest; subjects include the 2008 U.S. election, the financial crisis, Israel, Palestine, Iran, Iraq, Latin America and numerous others.
For those who don't have much time available to read (perfect for commuters or to be read while eating a sandwich at your desk at work), Making the Future is typical Chomsky but in bite-sized chunks. For those of you familiar with his work, there is a reasonable chance that you will already have read some of these pieces but you might appreciate having them all collected in one book.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book is a fine collection of essays discussing more recent events and exposing the hypocrisy of the arguments which dominate the political debate. Chomsky discusses subjects such as how the US government forced through an exploitative oil deal with the Iraqi government, how the torture scandals of the Bush II administration really are nothing new, the 2008 election and the false hope of Obama. He also discusses the rise of China and the ludicrous rhetoric which accompanies it as well as (of course) the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
That said, to me it pulled the book a little down that it was a collection of essays rather than a bigger narrative. These being short essays there is a limit to how much depth that there can be. On the other hand, this makes the book significantly more accessible to people who are new to Chomsky.
I recommend this book to everyone who is interested in international politics and in particular to those who want to introduce themselves or someone else to Chomsky.
That said, to me it pulled the book a little down that it was a collection of essays rather than a bigger narrative. These being short essays there is a limit to how much depth that there can be. On the other hand, this makes the book significantly more accessible to people who are new to Chomsky.
I recommend this book to everyone who is interested in international politics and in particular to those who want to introduce themselves or someone else to Chomsky.
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