期刊名称：WPCC - Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture
印刷版ISSN：1744-6708
电子版ISSN：1744-6716
出版年度：2009
卷号：6
期号：02
出版社：University of Westminster
摘要：Chomsky’s critique of US foreign policy – and the media coverage it generates – has significant
theoretical merit, and deserves to be of considerable interest within the social sciences. His
analysis rests upon two distinctive positions. First, he claims that capitalism only survives because
of the role played by the state, legislatively and administratively, controversially adding that it
operates as an economic agent providing welfare for the rich. While the political and corporate
elite can have varied and at times conflicting interests, the so-called common interest,
operationalized via the state, excludes the mass of ordinary people from existing power and
economic relations. Second, Chomsky’s analysis of the state is supported by an admittedly
unverifiable view of an essentialist human nature. For Chomsky, humans are creative and capable
of ‘abduction’. This leads him to argue for conditions of freedom, not so that humans are free to
be atomistic individuals, but to allow an interdependent and creative mutuality to flourish.
Ironically, the marginalization of Chomsky by social scientists and intellectual elites, especially in
the US, has resulted in their own assumptions remaining unchallenged and unexamined.
关键词：abduction; elite; essentialism; human nature; propaganda model; state
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