Friday, December 4, 2015

Noam Chomsky

“The consistent anarchist, then, should be a socialist, but a socialist of a particular sort. He will not only oppose alienated and specialized labor and look forward to the appropriation of capital by the whole body of workers, but he will also insist that this appropriation be direct, not exercised by some elite force acting in the name of the proletariat.”
-Noam Chomsky

“Property rights are not like other rights, contrary to what Madison and a lot of modern political theory says. If I have the right to free speech, it doesn’t interfere with your right to free speech. But if I have property, that interferes with your right to have that property, you don’t have it, I have it. So the right to property is very different from the right to freedom of speech. This is often put very misleadingly about rights of property; property has no right. But if we just make sense out of this, maybe there is a right to property, one could debate that, but it’s very different from other rights.”
-Noam Chomsky

The radical reconstruction of society must search for ways to liberate the creative impulse, not to establish new forms of authority. –Noam Chomskey

Industrial civilization leads to concentration of power and the decline of individual liberty. –Noam Chomskey

For the most part, those who do not accept the official ideology or contribute to the exercise of state power are willing to accumulate footnotes for history while permitting the democratic state to murder and destroy as it wills. –Noam Chomskey

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