Is Chomsky an Anarchist?

A response to the claim made by Variablast that Noam Chomsky isn't an anarchist.

It's also a great combination of Chomsky clips of him expressing his beliefs.

What do you think?

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• anarchism
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• Kropotkin
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• Anarchist
• socialism
• Noam
• Chomsky
• Peter
• Jay

[snarfeater]

he is an anarchist but he hates the word

[buddhagem]

Is it ironic for a linguist to hate a word? Or is it just weird?

[bjarczyk]

"Anarcho" capitalists aren't anarchists, and right-wing capitalists are not "libertarian."

[bjarczyk]

Individualistic anarchism has it's place.

Anarcho-capitalists are just businessmen, not anarchists. They deserve contempt for calling themselves anarchists.

[megaminxmaster]

@gulbirk anarchism is so much more than anti statism: it is anti hierarchical. this means that anarchism is anti state as well as anti capitalist, as well as being against all other hierarchies. "anarcho" capitalists want a society in which the state is none existent yet capitalism thrives, this is impossible (unless of course the people of a certain community want capitalism). why? because the state provides protection to capitalists: property, wealth, etc.

[gulbirk]

Can I just ask you anarchist people who say that anarcho capitalists arent really anarchists something. Why are they not anarchists? Isnt anarchism just a no-state system?

[FreeTheWorker]

@buddhagem I think it's because the word Anarchism carries such a stigma because it's used as a euphemism for lawlessness and chaos.

[bozolazic]

Nobody 2012!

[JiffyNo0b]

@bjarczyk True. Capitalism is inherently hierarchical.

[SteinbergRothschild]

@bjarczyk It's funny because the exact opposite is true.

Look like someone took the wrong lessons from 1984.

[00maharum00ma]

@buddhagem

I actually think it's totally appropriate. A linguist would want to be careful about what words he uses.

[Pikestance]

@bjarczyk Why do people do this to themselves? Anarchism is a political ideology that advocates a staeless society. Anarchism have many interpretatations or philosophies. You do not have to agree with one or all of them, but it doesn't change the fact that they advocate a stateless society.

[bjarczyk]

@Pikestance I didn't misrepresent their views. They're not anarchists.

[Pikestance]

@bjarczyk You cared enough to misrepresent their beliefs. Everyone makes youtube videos- Some good, some bad.