"Roughly speaking, states are violent to the extent that they have the power to act in the interests of those with domestic power..."
— Noam Chomsky

January 1, 1970

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Noam Chomsky, letter dated June 13, 1983. Published in: "The reasons for my concern: Response to Celia Jakubowicz," in C. P. Otero (ed.), Language and Politics, Black Rose (1988), pp. 369-72.