&gt; <i>As for the world’s second major propaganda system, association of socialism with the Soviet Union and its clients serves as a powerful ideological weapon to enforce conformity and obedience to the State capitalist institutions</i><p>A lot of historians would strongly disagree with Chomsky here. The leaders of the Soviet Union were true believers who acted as they did to bring about communism. Here&#x27;s a good interview with one such historian, a professor a Princeton: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hoover.org&#x2F;research&#x2F;hoover-fellow-stephen-kotkin-discusses-stalins-rise-power" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hoover.org&#x2F;research&#x2F;hoover-fellow-stephen-kotkin-...</a> . I believe the relevant bits are in part 2.<p>Chomsky is a great linguist, but when it comes to politics, I don&#x27;t give his views much weight.  You only need to look at what his buddy Chavez was doing in Venezuela, while Chomsky was singing his praises among leftist intelligentsia.