Chomsky explains anarchism (1 of 5)

1976 interview with Peter Jay.
2nd part http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnBnloqzGkE

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Education

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• chomsky
• government
• capitalism
• anarchism

[neobogard]

@SuperSpeedLemon Well,if you're selfish,heartless and a greedy puppet who doesn't care that %90 of the world is,was and allways will suffer,and don't care about the world you're going to leave behind to your own granchilren,then yeah,capitalism is better.

[Norm1011616]

@SuperSpeedLemon Obviously 'authority' is intrinsic to the notion of governance, so all you are left with is various groups of people trying to ascertain a level of cooperation with each other that is mutually beneficial. This change of perception could be applied with a Fabian approach with small incremental changes with each new bill or act eventually diluting the powers of government over a significant period of time that would aid the sociopolitical amalgamation into a fairer society.

[rwoz]

@neobogard Thats just ridiculous, do you really have that view on all the entrepreneurs who's given us all this wealth? Its the technical innovations which has made us all rich, and the more free the market is, the more innovations we get. Is that so bad? If we would have global capitalism, our resources would be put to much better use, taking us ALL to a higher standard of living, so why slow this process down?

[Norm1011616]

@SuperSpeedLemon Well ok, but your point is moot. You, like many other people who take your position, envisage an immediate change. Essentially going to sleep today with our current governing systems and then waking up tomorrow without any governing systems in place. Of course that would be disastrous. However anarchism isn't suggesting no system in place at all, is it? It simply suggests there should be a government without a centralised base of authority over people..... continued.

[SuperSpeedLemon]

@neobogard if anarchism were put into practice today it would be chaos on an appocolyptic level, people need to be able to be completely civillized and be able to work without real rules or people to enforce them which i dont think most people could handle

[SuperSpeedLemon]

@neobogard better then anarchism...

[neobogard]

@SuperSpeedLemon And capitalism works in practice?.

[gunkwretch]

@SuperSpeedLemon what are you actually basing that on? humanity has for most of its existence functioned in a pseudo form of anarchism, or anarchism proper, governments are only around 6000 years old.

[code933k]

@SuperSpeedLemon Are you saying I should believe you because you are _vaguely repeating_ CNN so called experts? Man, I really hope you are joking around. There were already working anarchist/collaborative/almost classless societies and associations in history. Anarchism is not a theory, is a practice. That's why Chomsky says here he is not an intellectual of anarchism. If I were you, I'd be reading about propaganda and its effects in society. Cheers.

[SuperSpeedLemon]

@code933k it was in a more recent explanation of Anarchy I saw it on CNN