Quotable: Noam Chomsky on “anti-Americans”

“You might take a look at that word ‘Americanism.’ It’s an unusual term, it’s the kind of term that you only find in totalitarian societies as far as I know. So like in the Soviet Union and anti-Sovietism was considered the gravest of all crimes … and the Brazilian generals had some concept like that, “anti-Brazilian”. But try, say, publishing a book on anti-Italianism and see what happens in the streets of Rome or Milan. People won’t even bother laughing, it’s a ludicrous idea.”