Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian st…

Noam Chomsky
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state... ✨ On Propaganda. WBAI Interview, chomsky.info. January 1992.
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