Anarchism 101 with Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky begins a small group discussion on Anarchism at Hamilton, Ontario's McMaster University.
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[Filly Dogooder]

Is that couch blocking a fire exit? Noam! no!!!!! you've resorted to petty city code infringement?

[Jakob Nebeling]

It would require nothing more than a look at the thumbnail to conceive that Noam Chomsky isn't a teenager. Your comment should really be "I don't care" because it reflects your attitude to a much greater degree than an irrelevant characterisation of the interview. It is also starting to be perfectly clear that your behaviour is selfcontradictory. When your proposition was challenged you spent time coming back here to state that you don't want to spend time on the matter.

[holzy44]

We live in a regulated economy. the FED REGULATES the money supply by the process you just outlined. They also REGULATE interest rates. In a non regulated economy (Capitalism) we would have competing currencies, interest rates that would help businesses make decisions and we wouldn't have these insane bubbles that makes some people rich. We also would experience the extreme level of inflation that we currently do.

[Anthony Haller]

If we lived in a regulated capitialist country we would've had the economy go all to hell. It all comes back to the (Non)Federal Reserve. The US barrows all this money from the Federal Reserve(which is a corporation) and they charge intrest on that money they borrowed but it based on nothing. Sorry I've been up all night and am going to bed

[holzy44]

We live in regulated capitalism already, also called socialism. I'm not sure what you mean by anarcho socialism or libertarian socialism as those terms seem to be direct contradictions.

[Anthony Haller]

(Contin.) People can be their own government. Anarchism starts at the bottom up if I understand it correct, instead our votes are a illusion the electioial college chooses the president. Sorry for my horrible spelling.

[Anthony Haller]

That is what I've been thinking about for a couple years. Regulate capitialism seems to be the only way if we want it last for another 2-5 years. If we go on with the way it's going it will last 2-5 months. But yes some sort of socialism relulated socialism. But I don't want totally socialism but regulated socialism or anacho-socialism or libertarian socialism. But even I see some problems with anarcho-socialism. ...

[holzy44]

You said get rid of capitalism. I'm not sure how you intend to do this. I assumed (maybe wrongfully) that it was through some type of socialism. How do you suggest we get rid of capitalism? I do agree that is much healthier for people to pursue work that they love.

[Anthony Haller]

Excuse me? How is doing a line of work because you love doing instead of for cash theft, please explain.

[holzy44]

That's not an alternative. That's just a tired excuse to justify theft.

[Anthony Haller]

That's because you a simpleton with ADD.