Summary of Noam Chomsky & Vijay Prashad's The Withdrawal

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#1 Noam Chomsky’s 1966 essay The Responsibility of Intellectuals argues that intellectuals have a responsibility to critique their government, and that they should do so without fear of repercussions.

#2 Noam’s essay, The Responsibility of Intellectuals, was published in a Harvard University journal in 1966 and later in the New York Review of Books. It argued that intellectuals have a responsibility to critique their government, and that they should do so without fear of repercussions.

#3 You have persisted with the same dedication despite the attacks. I want to understand why you have not given up.

#4 The Tet Offensive was an uprising in Vietnam that rattled the U. S. government’s assessment of the war. It was saved by real courage: the efforts of the young people to protest the war.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Sep 9, 2022
• ISBN: 9798350001686

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Noam Chomsky’s American Power is a reflection on the atrocious U. S. war against the people of Vietnam, and it was delivered in 1966 at Harvard University’s Hillel. It dazzles with its criticism of the intellectual world of the United States, where professors rest smugly on the ideals of American civilization but rarely confront its reality.

#2

Noam Chomsky was a leading linguist who wrote some of the finest pieces about the U. S. war on Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. He was also a prominent antiwar activist.

#3

You have been able to marshal the courage to stand up and say the things that you say because you are a privileged person. You seem to persist and persist with the same kind of dedication despite the terrible attacks.

#4

There was