Noam Chomsky On Democracy and "The Common Good " ( Part 1 )

Author and professor of linguistics at MIT Noam Chomsky discusses democracy and the "common good" with David Barsamian. The interview details the historical roots of democratic rights -- from Aristotle to the US Constitutional Convention -- and questions the role of today's private corporations that want to "undermine democratic functioning but ensure that there will be a powerful state to subsidize them," as Chomsky puts it.

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[verbalps]

Thanks for the upload Menance

[larma7]

So what do you believe in?? Representative rule??? You want RULERS to run your life??

[devourerofbabies]

Porno music and Noam Chomsky. I'm well horny now.

[Kinkspace]

I'm with Aristotle, elimination poverty, we have tried & exhausted all other options, its time to eliminate poverty once & for all.

Panocracy is the only viable solution.

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.

Thomas Paine

Solution. Devolve governance back to the community, society, we the people.

[BoutrasBoutrasGhali]

The intro, with its porn funk and talk of making connections, sounds like an advert for a dating line

[dontliethetruth]

wow the intro music is funky.. i guess noam woulda luv it

[AnonymousWhitePerson]

Democracy is Moribund.

[MrSalamander7]

@larma7 (Not aggressive question at all, completely curious) Well what if they ruled based on the will of the poeple. I.E. a society where private corporations were curbed and everyone voted, wrote their representatives, were allowed to vote "neither", etc? Could that not be desirable? A rep. democracy where the reps actaully yielded to the will of the people?

[mgore90]

Does Noam seem like the kind of guy that would form a mob, he's hardly a pleb now is he. And I'd like to think the average European or American is a little less naive than the average 1917 peasant Russian. You can't argue that this society is fair, I personally am at university, will likely pass in the top 25% (presuming 35% of people go to university, in about the top 10% of every1) nationally, but like fuck will I be in the top 10% of income, unlikely even the top 35, because of no connections