Noam Chomsky - The Relevance of Anarcho-syndicalism, Part 6

The final part.
An interview by Peter Jay (25th July 1976). Transcript: http://www.chomsky.info/interviews/19760725.htm

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[pharmacoepi]

I'm not sure whether such a stupid statement even deserves a response, however I will deliver one. To say that Chomsky should be killed for his views is contrary to the basic principles of those who founded America, a nation you claim to support. And is it so bad if he is a threat to religion? I think not! Religion is built upon blind faith in irrational ideologies.

[achtungpanzer182]

I read this in the book, but its still interesting to hear the great man himself speak! Thanks for uploading a piece of history.

[agapeiron]

@selfrealizedexile Your comments have been full of cheap shots, provocation and rhetoric. Which is why you're a conservative haunting a video about anarcho-syndicalism in the first place; to turn it into an outlet for your market ideology. So before you claim the mantle of objectivity and scholarly rigor, go back and dissect your own posts one by one, showing me how you were not resting on childishness, but have in fact been (rigorously) midwifing manifestations of "vigorous scrutiny."

[qwertypoiu4321]

@agapeiron More coercive, blind attacks on the division of labor. 1 Billion people lifted themselves out of poverty allowing the voluntary division of labor and voluntarily allowing people to supply human demand--the largest evaporation of poverty in human history, which is never mentioned because you do not care about the poor--but your criminal, degrading policies have caused horrid, perpetual poverty in the poorest area's in the western hemisphere, the Pine Ridge Reservation and Haiti.

[selfrealizedexile]

@agapeiron

You're only holding yourself back with such childishness. Resting on ad hominems instead of an ideology that you truly put under vigorous scrutiny and exposed to robust debate.

[agapeiron]

@selfrealizedexile Where did I state that "grow up" was an argument?

[selfrealizedexile]

@agapeiron

"Grow up" is not an argument.

[agapeiron]

@qwertypoiu4321 Were you born only after being given a voluntary choice to not be poor, to have all the economic advantages on your side? You sweep all inequalities under the ideological carpet, and construct an ideology of pseudo-voluntarism, where liberty is hollowed into an empty phrase to better serve the CEOs of the world. Yours is the liberty of the rich; the political agenda of Milton Friedman and Co. Heavy wallets, empty heads.

[agapeiron]

@selfrealizedexile "Anarcho"-capitalism is not a form of anarchism. Grow up. What are truly "inelegant" are the free market fantasias conservatives have begun concocting to make their rationalized greed give off a whiff of liberation. You people are so desperate for attention that you swarm on authentically anarchist Youtube videos to spout your capitalist silliness. Get over it; the revolt of the haves is the ideology of affluent saps.

[qwertypoiu4321]

'Anarcho-Syndicalism' is a form of coercive statism.

Everything should be voluntary, the exact opposite of 'Anarcho-Syndicalism'.

[selfrealizedexile]

It seems to me most of you An-Synds would convert to An-Cap if you would only read Bohm-Bawerk's work on Interest Rate theory. For rejecting it, you are forced to have such a sloppy form (Democratic) of Anarchism. It is inelegant and arbitrary.

[spartan2600]

@JSGuitar80 He explains, maybe not thoroughly enough, that jobs that are unpopular (taking out the trash, sweeping, etc) and cannot be made to be fulfilling (perhaps there are those that find sweeping a satisfying job) must be split evenly among the public. For example, there is an anarchist book publisher called South End Press. Everyone spends 1 hour a doing janitorial work, everyone spends 1 hour doing editing, and the rest of the workday people do what they find fulfilling.