Book description
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.
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.
