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Noam Chomsky calls the anti-American "concept".an interesting one. The counterpart is used only in totalitarian states or military dictatorships."
"Thus, in the old Soviet Union, dissidents were condemned as 'anti-Soviet.' ""That's a natural usage among people with deeply rooted totalitarian instincts, which identify state policy with the society, the people, the culture."
"In contrast, people with even the slightest concept of democracy treat such notions with ridicule and contempt."
Only in America. What's largely unimaginable or exceptional elsewhere in free societies, or quasi-free ones, is commonplace here.
Throughout his tenure, Chavez was relentlessly assailed. New York Times articles, commentaries and editorials did so. They still do. On March 6, it head lined " Hugo Chavez ," saying:
He "dominated Venezuelan politics for 14 years with his charismatic personality, populist policies and authoritarian methods before his death this week.""His redistributionist policies brought better living conditions to millions of poor Venezuelans."
"But his legacy is stained by the undermining of democratic institutions and the embrace of malevolent foreign leaders like Bashar al-Assad of Syria and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran."
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