Noam Chomsky on the Responsibility of Intellectuals: Redux

September 22, 2011 - Wong Auditorium, MIT - In 1967, as the Vietnam War escalated, Noam Chomsky penned The Responsibility of Intellectuals, a stunning rebuke to scientists and scholars for their subservience to political power. Today we face a similar array of crises, from wars to escalating debt. What are the obligations of intellectuals in this day and age? Introduction by Joshua Cohen.

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[OD533]

7:10 skip bs

[tstruss912]

If I introduced him I would just say, "Chomsky". That's all that's needed, not 20 min of blathering.

[MrYayaver]

Judge a person by his works not by jargon such as intellectual and poster-boy !! According to the Arts and Humanities Citation Index in 1992, Chomsky was cited as a source more often than any other living scholar from 1980 to 1992, and was the eighth most cited source overall.

[omzdog]

that and Chomsky is in his 80's now. He was doing activist work back in the 50's and 60's he even traveled with the black panthers and was at Fred Hampton's funeral (the black panther killed by the FBI)! You don't get more anarchically active than associating with the Panther's when they were a militant organization.

Now he has grand-kids.

[noamas ouaknine]

Mol

[Brandyn Henry]

If you want to skip bs, just don't watch this, it's an hour and a half of it.

[nyccarini]

what is this guy, the poster boy of intellectuals?

[Ken Tillman]

Here because of TJ?

[MrYayaver]

Since you are following law of the state, how are you pursuing anarchy ? What Chomsky stands is for historical facts that our governments don't want us to know and remember. And how many millionaire college professor fight for the rights of individual across globe without buckling under false propaganda of government ? The point here is not about being intellectual but being courageous to call a spade a spade.

[AnneRKee]

Oh, Chomsky falling for that Eurocentric idea of "Intellectuals." More white men with their lofty knowledge, except that they should work for the common people and lead them. I wonder what its like to be a millionaire college professor who writes about Anarchism as if its all scholarly history and not a living process lived by people below him, economically and "intellectually." Some of us are going to live more simple lives and actually pursue Anarchy, rather than that Jill Stein crap he pushes

[rohgenextfan]

Heheh, that should be on Penn Jillete's tombstone. "Penn Jillete: Amazing Atheist!!"

[Abraxas Nexus]

Everyone should have a granddad like Noam