Noam Chomsky on How Businesses Sought to Destroy the Democratic Movements of the 1960s
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- Опубліковано 4 кві 2017
- democracynow.org - This week is the 50th anniversary of Dr. King’s "Beyond Vietnam" speech at Riverside Church, where he said the United States is "the greatest purveyor of violence on Earth." For more on this revolutionary political period-and the counterrevolutionary forces it unleashed-we speak with Noam Chomsky, world-renowned political dissident, linguist and author of more than 100 books, including, most recently, "Requiem for the American Dream."
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How much do we need voices like his.
How can a man that himself has belonged to the upper class for ages be so damn well in touch with the worker class' problems? He is really spot-on! Amazing human being!
Why in God's name does this video only have 13,000 views ? You just can't understand the character of American politics today if you don't know what is taking place in the 1970s and 1980s in conservative and business circles.
Because he's a communist idiot
@@coopsnz1 between you who write a single syntactically incorrect sentence and make a claim that is unsupported and untrue, and a man who has taught at MIT for 50 years, revolutionized linguistics, written dozens of books and made hundreds of talks throughout the world, who do you think is the one that looks the most idiotic ?
@@adrienpartier7207 he an idiot like Green leader dickhead in my country Australia
@@coopsnz1 Idiots like you have this astonishing idiosyncratic feature that renders them oblivious to their own intellectual incompetence and laziness. Thus, they think they can deny someone else's knowledge and skills while actually being utterly unable to even begin to recognize their own inaptitudes and the worthlessness of their opinion. You're a hopeless case. You can't and won't realize how desperately inaccurate and uninformed your views are. My advice : just stop trying to reason and think, or your underpowered and overstretched brain may explode.
@@adrienpartier7207 Never stop doing what you just did. Keep fighting the good fight.
I recently wrote my local paper about the report 'Deaths of Despair', which Chomsky refers to. It quantifies what many of us already know and is worth looking into.
The Laramie, Wyoming Boomerang printed the following a few weeks ago. A person has to have a subscription to read it, unfortunately.
A Call for Discussing Direct Democracy in the Democratic Party
On Thursday, March 23, I attended the Democratic Party’s town hall meeting packed into the second floor of Night Heron Books. Our purpose was to discuss the state legislature’s progress, but my concerns compelled me to publicly draw attention to the connection I see between the politics of the national and local Democrats.
We must address how the Democratic National Party raises its money because their refusal to shun big, corporate influence undermines Democrats here in Wyoming. Though state law prohibits corporate donations to political parties and PACs, voters and would-be voters working in Wyoming believe both Republicans and Democrats have no substantial differences between them due to their reliance on corporate money, funneled to them through legal work-arounds.
Recently cementing this perception is the Democratic National Committee’s failure to reinstate the 2008 ban on corporate PAC money. Since this passes for the party of the people, no wonder NPR recently reported on “The Forces Driving Middle-Aged White People’s ‘Deaths of Despair.’” Anne Case and Angus Deaton have discovered that since 1999 white men age 45-55 without college degrees suffered from increasing risks of death by drugs, alcohol, and suicide and attribute this to their socio-economic standing. When the Democratic Party appears to serve corporate interests, it abandons working people to a world where they feel powerless. I commonly hear at work “Don’t get so riled up; it is what it is,” they tell me in genuine efforts to comfort me. They do not realize that they are tempting me with an apathy which would cost me my will to live.
If I make inroads with co-workers, they reason I must not be a Democrat but a fantastic, ideological unicorn. The question party elites do not want to address is: are they correct? At the last County Democratic Party monthly meeting, concerned citizens asked, “What does it mean to be a Democrat?” The Democratic leaders implore the people to trust the party, but they have not trusted the people since Jimmy Carter lost re-election. Superdelegates exist to check the threat of populism as a result of the Party’s distrust of direct democracy, and strategies borne of this serve to create voter disillusionment among working people.
All I ask is a chance to convince Democratic leaders in Wyoming to put pressure on national Democrats to abolish superdelegates and corporate money. We should discuss how state and county Democrats can restrict corporate influence to a higher standard than the law and the merits of Wyoming joining the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. If we agitate for direct democracy, perhaps Wyomingites will recognize that the Democratic Party serves them, shake off the chains of disillusionment, and vote.
Thankful as I was for the town hall, it was not perfect. Leaders gave three days notice; the hot, crowded room added to the discomfort of any controversy; and we rushed the meeting’s conclusion. Also, our venue was not handicapped accessible. All these elements kept numbers low. The senator and representatives encouraged us to keep the dialogue open while the strategies of the Democratic Party itself makes that task increasingly difficult. Remember, elected officials are not the only people who can lose employment for saying what they think. The Party is asking me to risk my job to talk a walk they are not walking, thus they abandon me to “But what about...” arguments.
The Democratic Party should turn to the lesson of the widow’s mite in Mark 12:41-44. The woman’s tithe was insignificant compared to other donations, but she gave all and therefore has a place in heaven. Likewise, if Democrats want to ensure a place for folks like her in the party, they must engage in direct democracy and recognize the intrinsic value of two million $1 donations over a single $2 million donation. Trying this strategy may win elections for Democrats at all levels of government, and then we can do something about jobs, education, and children’s healthcare.
@@louisaruth Way to go! Your energy and resourcefulness are awesome and truly heroic. In a Working Class Hero sorta way. Whether the scriptures come from John Lennon, Groucho Marx or the Old\New Testies... Keep on doing, including your citizen reporting here and in whatever margin permits such Public Interest coverage. Lord knows it ain't much tolerated on the Private Interest-captured Corporate Caliphate's occupied "Public Airwaves" and cyber spectrum (with net neutrality now under attack and so many so-called Opposition Dems caving like Biden to the Corporate Caliphate & Feudal Lords of Finance!)....
Like we says in Hebe when sacred Public Interest work is being done, "Yishaar Co'ah" may strength remain for you to complete your work!
Respectfully and most appreciatively yours,
Mitch Ritter\Paradigm Sifters & Shifters
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Amazing man. Really. Unusual
The Sickness Is The System
It's interesting, I graduated high school mid-70's and went on to a year of college because that's what you were supposed to do, but then dropped out because I felt school was trying to make me into something I wasn't - a non-thinking follower.
Good for you. I dropped out of College in 96'. Most of what I know, I taught myself.
13k views, just shows you, how sleep 💤 the citizens are!!!!
I listened to a video from Robert Reich on this Justice yesterday. This guy alone killed the middle class. Business became more important than individuals. And, here we are now.
Amazing he can know all this and not have been a thirdy party post duopoly supporter before us all. He dabbled but ended up vote blue no matter who.
"Brave New World" as desired by the plutocracy's minions.
Bingo! So true!
The decline of American democracy.
If both sides see "too much Democracy" as a bad thing, IS it a bad thing? How much Democracy is enough? Despite what Chomsky says about Oligarchy being unstable, it and Royalty proved to be the most stable times in history, in all cultures. Democracy is, by it's very nature, unstable, changing as culture changes by fad and by war as well as by technological development. The rise of Trump was a fad, a small "d", democratic fad, while the development of the internet and the cell phone allowed that fad to develop faster and deeper than even Goebbels' radio and movies, yet that fad was one of anti-Democracy. People wanted a strong leader to handle all the big problems so they could get on with their lives and handle all the little problems. They would vote for their own chains.
What Americans want isn't actual freedom, that's terrifying, but controlled Authoritarianism and a bigger piece of the pie! How much Democracy does that take? Actual Democracy, actual Freedom, requires We The People to take the responsibility for our individual selves AND our neighbors. The despair is in seeing our superior life style diminish to something more like what the developing world has, what America was really like, back in the good ol days of the 19th century. That would be the dream of the Oligarchs, a new "Golden Age" for them but we are having a hard time letting go of the perks our "Over reaching government", has presented us. Did we vote for Social Security? Did we vote for the five day work week? Did we vote for the largest, most powerful military the world has ever seen? No, we voted for other people to take care of the big things and they did and kept going. Now we vote for Representatives but they owe their allegiance to Oligarchs who voted with their vast wealth. Is that also Democracy? Do we have to continue bribing our Representatives after we elect them, to keep them on our side? What is the alternative?
Trump and his gang won one election, by a small margin of Electoral votes, not by us. He lost by about the same margin. Those who voted for him had and still have legitimate problems that are not being addressed and they are close enough to being an actual half of the country, that those concerns need to be addressed, but it's hard to do with a "Winner take all" Democratic system. Isn't that the definition of tyranny? How do we handle this?
you are basing everything on a false assumption: Oligarchy was _not_ stable, neither was royalty. The history of Europe is one long bloodbath of shifting territory lines, and there has only been prolonged peace since 1945.
Stop excusing fascism with half-witted pocket philosophy, thanks.
Personally belive that business is behind the feminist movement... since 80% of all money spent is by women... so take it from men and put money in the hands of women who will spend it... hair,nails,clothes,shoes...
this is epsteins pal chomsky
Big government destroy business
@@heydudedolfan13 things we don't need?
Big business destroy government
@@wildfire9280 wrong
@@coopsnz1 you need to listen to listen to George Carlin. The owners are big businesses! They are destroying things that benefit the people.
I wish
I suppose Tik Tok , legal drugs and video games very slightly stifled the need to instill "passivity" since then.
You do understand there's like esports, and our military is active in gaming, too. Tiktok is assumed bad due to 🇨🇳. Every generation, there's something new that's vilified. But all the actual dangers are protected.