Chomsky

[lifeasariver]

I would like to see Noam Chomsky endorsing Ron Paul.

[winston84]

I don't think you're going to see that, Chomsky is probably the most ignored figure on the main stream media in relation to his status outside of it. Also, Chomsky is pretty damn liberal too and from what I understand he's a globalist as well.

[Libertus]

I've read a lot for Chomsky, and while I think his non0interventionist stance on foreign policy, he's pretty much a socialist who has even made the argument that free speech should be regulated, because people have a right to not be offended by your free speech in a college environment.

something to that effect at least.

[Brandybuck]

Chomsky is a hypocrite... in my never to be humble opinion. He claims he is an anarchist and does not believe in the state. Yet like so many left anarchists, he has no qualms about using the coercive power of the state to achieve his goals.

I am not an anarchist, but I deeply respect true anarchists, of either the right or left. But no one who advocates coercive solutions is an anarchist.

[Melchior]

Chomsky is important to linguistics... or so I'm told, so I'm not willing to brush him off.

But like others here said the man is far left-wing, a self-described "libertarian socialist" or left-anarchist.


Chomsky is a hypocrite... in my never to be humble opinion. He claims he is an anarchist and does not believe in the state. Yet like so many left anarchists, he has no qualms about using the coercive power of the state to achieve his goals.

I am not an anarchist, but I deeply respect true anarchists, of either the right or left. But no one who advocates coercive solutions is an anarchist.

Only anarcho-capitalists are true anarchists.

Left-wing anarchists are indistinguishable from communists as far as I've seen, and as you say they don't seem to see any problem with minimum wage laws or anything like that, they would probably have things like that in their ideal government-less collective.

[angelatc]

True anarchy doesn't require a use of force, one of the things it shares with Libertarianism. Here in the US the phrase is practically synonomous with people who throw rocks through windows when nobody islooking.

The Ukraine had a successful anarchy for a brief time back in the early 1900's, but the socialists came through and slaughtered them.

Lots of African tribes are considered anarchies.

Somolia is often used as an example of a modern anarchy, but IMHO it's more akin to warlordism. Despite all the battling political factions, their economy is pretty good.