Free Market Fantasies by Noam Chomsky 5/5

Hallo co-enraged,

I just want to bring you some of anticonsumer`s censored videos back...

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=ProFreeSpeech

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[Petar101]

I hope that this is you anticonsumer. If so, thank the good lord you are back.

[ProFreeSpeech]

Sorry, I´m not anticonsumer. Just watch my channel. Everything is explained there...

[vktrsx]

The term "corporate greed" implies that some are not, which is absurd!

[MrXfromPlanetX]

The only problem is the Corporations control the government. They also manipulate the opinions of average people using the media. Check out the book Propaganda by Edward Bernays originally published in 1928:

"The minority has discovered a powerful help in influencing majorities. It has been found possible so to mold the mind of the masses desired direction. In the present structure of society, this practice in inevitable."

He was trying to sell people on the idea

[gshooting]

@HoRostam Adovcating free markets is not the same as advocating anarchy, although even anarchists (not the commie-types that want to just destroy everything) would replace public defence with private defence, so instead of having public police, you would just have a private police and instead of the US Army, you would have Haliburton and Blackwater exclusively.

[HoRostam]

@gshooting right, well i was just illustrating the differences between the mindsets... which i guess i did. but its also funny that a complete free market advocate would be critical of "lawlessness," think about that one... but youre right, they are corrupt, but corrupt in collusion with western business interests. i wasnt talking about farming so much as, say, congo... which is one of the biggest humanitarian disasters in human history, but no one talks about, tot all about computer parts etc

[gshooting]

@HoRostam That's ridiculous, the third world is rife with government corruption and lawlessness, and in some countries the general environment for arable production is terrible. That is not the fault of the free market. Getting the government to take over a barren piece of land that can hardly produce any crops doesn't make anyone better off than they would be with the free market.

[HoRostam]

@gshooting and by govt, i mean big bad cartoon govt that the right supposedly hates... chomsky is very critical of military-industrial complex etc

[HoRostam]

@gshooting his credentials include, in addition to being able to hold lots of info in his head, being an activist, and having seen the effects of the market in other parts of the world, etc. The main difference here is that free market people wanna look at the third world or other underdeveloped areas, including domestic problems, as either primitive or caused by govt, and more liberal people see those areas as PRODUCED by the free market itself. i find the second argument convincing

[gshooting]

@HoRostam Ok, imagine you were taking an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering and your lecturer had a PhD in English, nothing else. Wouldn't you wonder that your lecturer really has no business teaching you about mechanical engineering?

[HoRostam]

@gshooting i guess that means you must have a phd in economics, just like every other free market fanboy

[gshooting]

@shortywheat Exactly what credentials does Noam Chomsky have to talk about economics?

[jeenthough]

amaizing!!! i'll watch that again.i just wonder-how does he know all this. isn't it supposed2b secret?lot's of guessing,i guess,but u need facts too,and he names them.its been so obvious-i m Bulgarian bourn living in Holland-I ve been witnessing how "capitalism"has been developping in both countries. when arrived here 20 years ago i instantly said-this is some form of (nacioanal)socialism,the same goes 4 Bulgaria.virtualy most small businesses has been killed4 the sake of the suppermarkets.

[DystopianEmpire01]

@MrXfromPlanetX Propaganda is as old as civilization.