The 76-year-old professor of linguistics known as an anarchist thinker said that contemporary foreign affairs boiled down to the survival of the species, i.e. a nation and a state. He added atrocious crimes had been committed in the name of that at the very start of the 21st century.
Chomsky said the excuse had been that mankind should be saved from war, but the reality was that mankind was ever closer to the abyss of ruin and that the Bush administration's current military programmes were leading to that abyss.
He backed his claim that the continuity of US policy had led to that brink with facts from American history. He said that every US president had had his doctrine.
Expansion is the key to security which is being served by sophisticated surveillance equipment and military technology which on the one side serve to intimidate, while on the other make states compete, which in global terms represents a big threat, said Chomsky.
He added that most Americans did not share their politicians' views.
George Bush's doctrine is founded on the creation of an atmosphere of fear, but Bill Clinton's doctrine was dangerous too because it started from the fact that when the United States leads, the United Nations follows, said Chomsky.
Before the lecture, Chomsky attended the opening of an exhibition of Andy Warhol's famous Marilyn Monroe portraits in Rigo Gallery.