Noam Chomsky - Right-wing Movements and the Hatred of Government

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  • Опубликовано: 15 ноя 2024

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  • @EHDROCK
    @EHDROCK 9 лет назад +65

    How I admire Noam Chomsky, although I do not agree with all his political views, but I sure do respect Noam Chomsky. What a marvelous, fair, brilliant man he is, we are lucky to have him as one of ours.

    • @AymanB
      @AymanB 7 лет назад +9

      Admire but don't agree? That's rare.
      Just out of curiosity (don't want to initiate a debate), what don't you agree with?

  • @Justin-hb9wc
    @Justin-hb9wc 2 месяца назад +2

    As a member of the underclass my whole life everything Noam chomsky says is very validating

  • @vandelayindustries5814
    @vandelayindustries5814 9 лет назад +41

    Incredible, this talk, this man, Incredible

  • @PappyMandarine
    @PappyMandarine 4 года назад +47

    "Government is the shadow cast by business over society"
    Interest quote for a dissertation.

    • @usernameryan5982
      @usernameryan5982 Год назад

      Utter bullshit, it’s the shadow of business that it takes forever for me to get a building permit? That there’s massive corruption in public services? That they deliberately have shitty infrastructure and shortage of housing driving people into poverty? You’ve been listening to this senile retard for too long with no connection to how the government operates

    • @PappyMandarine
      @PappyMandarine Год назад

      @@usernameryan5982 Don't be so short-sightened. The quote is not meant to explain in specific terms the apparent misery of your existence. Rather, it aims at reframing what the common man, just like you, thinks of the State apparatus. The idea is that the government is chiefly at the service of business, specifically the biggest corporations that run the economy. The interests that the State serves are not those of the people (you may include yourself in that - which is why you don't receive your building permit or whatever), but at the service of the interests of the wealthiest entities in the country (for they get their building permit with a snap of fingers). That also explains what you call "shitty infrastructure" (despite the fact that the United States have one of the best infrastructure network in the world), and more relevantly the "shortage of housing", etc.
      By the way, the senile retard is one of the greatest linguists of the 20th century, and a fantastic, sharp-minded thinker all around.

    • @usernameryan5982
      @usernameryan5982 Год назад

      @@PappyMandarine compared to GDP, we have piss poor infrastructure, I don’t know how else you could display your ignorance. And no, there may be government officials who have been caught taking bribes or favoring big business, but the main interest that government has is enriching itself. And why should I care about what a linguistics professor has to say about politics? You can be brilliant and one field and an absolute buffoon in another and Noam Chomsky is no different

    • @PappyMandarine
      @PappyMandarine Год назад +1

      @@usernameryan5982 Okay, Noam Chomsky is a buffoon. Sure enough, he's taken very seriously by Michel Foucault, among thousand of intellectuals, but since your majesty says he's a buffoon, I guess it must be right.

    • @usernameryan5982
      @usernameryan5982 Год назад

      @@PappyMandarine ha, you want to talk about authority when that’s all you can appeal to in defending his ridiculous political ideas.

  • @jmichaelhall7433
    @jmichaelhall7433 6 лет назад +27

    If the oligarchy takes our money, shame on them. If they take our freedom, shame on us.

    • @HeathWatts
      @HeathWatts 5 лет назад +6

      Those who control the money also control freedom. The Supreme Court's Citizens United decision in the U.S. will allow all freedom in the U.S., and ultimately worldwide to unfurl. In addition to their wealth, the rich own the elections in the U.S.
      Unless capitalism is brought down, we'll eventually revert to a feudalist society where most of us are either serfs or slaves.

    • @ikeman9784
      @ikeman9784 4 года назад +2

      Freedom means absolutely nothing without economic resources. Just look at black south Africans they've got their freedom from apartheid yet the whites kept all the money. Now they kill and harass other poor African immigrants looking for who to blame for their poverty and wretchedness...

  • @Lythgoemania
    @Lythgoemania 3 года назад +4

    Relevant now

  • @nebojsagalic4246
    @nebojsagalic4246 9 лет назад +17

    What are the common wages of labor, depends everywhere upon the contract usually made between those two parties, whose interests are by no means the same. The workmen desire to get as much, the masters to give as little as possible. The former are disposed to combine in order to raise, the latter in order to lower the wages of labor.
    [12] It is not, however, difficult to foresee which of the two parties must, upon all ordinary occasions, have the advantage in the dispute, and force the other into a compliance with their terms. The masters, being fewer in number, can combine much more easily; and the law, besides, authorizes, or at least does not prohibit their combinations, while it prohibits those of the workmen. We have no acts of parliament against combining to lower the price of work; but many against combining to raise it. In all such disputes the masters can hold out much longer. A landlord, a farmer, a master manufacturer, a merchant, though they did not employ a single workman, could generally live a year or two upon the stocks which they have already acquired. Many workmen could not subsist a week, few could subsist a month, and scarce any a year without employment. In the long run the workman may be as necessary to his master as his master is to him; but the necessity is not so immediate.
    [13] We rarely hear, it has been said, of the combinations of masters, though frequently of those of workmen. But whoever imagines, upon this account, that masters rarely combine, is as ignorant of the world as of the subject. Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labour above their actual rate.
    Adam Smith The Wealth of Nations
    BOO YA CAPITALIST MOTHAFAKAZ!!!
    geolib.com/smith.adam/won1-08.html

  • @ericpfeiffer7958
    @ericpfeiffer7958 2 года назад +1

    Every so often, Chomsky just makes so much sense. And this was, what? Twenty-five years ago?

  • @smith5796
    @smith5796 Год назад

    What a Brilliant Talker. ❤

  • @Z06Ronald
    @Z06Ronald 7 лет назад +4

    This man is a BRIGHT STAR! ❤️

  • @jvcyt298
    @jvcyt298 Год назад +2

    Thanks, Noam for showing me how insidious and evil the world really is.

    • @lorenzomcnally6629
      @lorenzomcnally6629 Год назад

      Death by Left Wing Marxist Fascism.......
      .....120 MILLION souls killed in
      PEACETIME for "Socialism."
      LAST CENTURY. ITS CALLED "DEMOCIDE."
      IT MAKES ALL WAR AND FASCISM
      PALE IN THE MASS MURDER SWEEPSTAKES OF ALL HUMAN HISTORY.
      KILLED BY MARXIST SOCIALIST ECONOMICS IN PEACETIME BY THEIR OWN LEFT WING MARXIST SOCIALIST CITIZENS AND GOVERNMENTS.
      ASIA
      RUSSIA
      EASTERN EUROPE
      LATIN AMERICA
      AND
      AFRICA.
      KILLED BY
      FORCRD LABOR
      STARVATION
      AND
      DISEASE.
      Over DECADES OF TIME.
      "GULAGS" OF MARXIST/ SOCIALIST ECONOMICS AND PURVEYORS
      OF ENDLESS CLASS WARFARE MARXIST
      SEMANTICS. NOAM FUCKING CHUMPSKY, HOWARD ZINN, MICHAEL PARENTI, RICHARD WOLF.
      NOAM CHIMPSKY
      IS ONE
      EVIL SOB. HIM AND HIS ANCIENT
      CAVE MAN INTELLECTUAL POS ACADEMIC RICH WHITE LIBERAL DRONGOS.
      MARXIST DEATH CULTS OF SOCIALIST UTOPIAS IN HELL.

  • @kevinjohnson9533
    @kevinjohnson9533 2 месяца назад +1

    Noam has always been a prophet!

    • @StinkCabbage
      @StinkCabbage 12 дней назад +1

      He basically here predicts the rise of Trump and MAGA

    • @kevinjohnson9533
      @kevinjohnson9533 12 дней назад +1

      @@StinkCabbage True. Lots of folks looking at Noam now saying " Damn, he was right about everything." lol

    • @StinkCabbage
      @StinkCabbage 12 дней назад

      @@kevinjohnson9533 👍

  • @spaghettiking7312
    @spaghettiking7312 5 месяцев назад

    This is painfully true.

  • @coreycox2345
    @coreycox2345 8 лет назад +6

    I was an urban planner...so my job involved encouraging massive public participation. It does seem like the fatal flaw in the system. The results of public involvement can be channelled into something acceptable to the powers that be, but sometimes not entirely. This is something that has potential...but the truth is that is sometimes very difficult to get people to even come to a meeting. Daily life is too demanding.

    • @alexmekuria748
      @alexmekuria748 4 года назад +2

      Their daily life, marked by disciplinary obligations of wage labor, of crushing debt, of living expenses and the like, not enough time and leisure to cultivate and understand themselves and the world around them to ensure active participation. I know another urban planner who wrote about this stuff named Lewis Mumford. Don't know if you'll see this, but his work is definitely worth looking into

  • @HeathWatts
    @HeathWatts 5 лет назад +10

    Unfortunately, right wing nationalism has spread throughout the world since Chomsky gave this talk.

    • @ikeman9784
      @ikeman9784 4 года назад +5

      Yep cos the rich keep sucking up the resources and the working poor from Europe to America are looking for people to take out their frustrations on...

    • @naveed210
      @naveed210 4 года назад

      ike man the right wing nationalist euphoria taking place is strange. A search for identity from people suffering with an identity crisis? In the U.K., our so-called “conservative” voters are extremely shallow.
      A lot of the left wing critique of the Johnson voters are mainly motivated through the stereotypical ideological prism. On a lot of the social/philosophical issues, the Johnson/Brexit voters are a lot more left wing than conservative. In fact, I’d even say the lefts emphasis on individual freedom has given rise to a libertarian government rather than conservative. True conservatives detest Johnson.

    • @coopsnz1
      @coopsnz1 4 года назад +3

      Social democracy countries failed middle class

    • @HeathWatts
      @HeathWatts 4 года назад

      Ben Chesterman Evidence? Wages for the US middle class have been stagnant for 40 years under capitalism. . www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us-workers-real-wages-have-barely-budged-for-decades/

    • @coopsnz1
      @coopsnz1 4 года назад +1

      @@HeathWatts same as Germany and Australia the social democracy countries

  • @foodchewer
    @foodchewer Год назад +1

    This is a pretty even-handed and reasonable critique of the American radical libertarian right and what makes people turn to their ideas. Very scientific and human to not demonize right wingers or try to "unperson" them but instead to try to understand where and why they're coming from, what are the social and material conditions that made them feel their only option was these ideologies? But the irony of Noam criticizing libertarian rightists to me though is that Noam leans toward anarchism himself right? I don't see how that is that different from the people he's talking about in this video, except maybe that they emphasize traditionalist conservatism/primitivism more (maybe that IS a huge difference and I'm underselling the divide here). Also I couldn't help but notice that he says Timothy McVeigh is "supposed to have done the bombings" at 0:35...hmmmm, sounds like Noam is TRAFFICKING IN CONSPIRACY THEORIES AHHHHHH HE'S BAD, HE'S A BAD GUY AHHHH. Lol maybe I'm inserting my own paranoia into that quote, but man you gotta admit the way he phrased it to say "who's supposed to have done the bombings" instead of "who did the bombings" it certainly sounds like he's casting doubt on the traditionally accepted narrative around the OKC bombing. Dangerous game, Noam.

    • @ridicule1313
      @ridicule1313 Год назад +1

      You gotta look deeper into what he’s talking about by his definition of anarchism. Anarchism runs the gamut of left to right and can be both capitalist, socialist, or somewhere in between. Look up Chomsky’s Libertarian Socialism I believe there’s a 30 minute video of him discussing what his anarchist society would look like

  • @smooa1889
    @smooa1889 5 лет назад

    what year was this sounds 80s

    • @Johnsmith99663
      @Johnsmith99663 5 лет назад +7

      Smizoke Mizark Probably mid to late 90s, since he mentions the Oklahoma City bombing.

  • @ethephious
    @ethephious 2 месяца назад

    they want big dady to use it and for there to be big daddy to use for ultra power undr veil guised of beng representativ of populous

  • @StinkCabbage
    @StinkCabbage 12 дней назад

    Trump explaining the rise of Trump and MAGA

  • @Theroadneverending
    @Theroadneverending 3 года назад

    Tim was a profesor I’m not sure what he’s getting at

    • @simonw560
      @simonw560 Год назад +3

      McVeigh was a soldier and security guard. Are you thinking of the Unabomber who was a math prof at one point?