I'm a cleaner and I listen to stuff like this while up to my elbows in unpleasant things... You ever wonder if it's useful for working class plebs like me to know the approximate meaning of words like "communism" and "neo-conservatism". Given how all this stuff is so heavily propogandised and redefined, seemingly right under our noses, does it not simply play into the hands of the masters when I fill my head with these lofty ideas but find my feet rooted to the spot.
"cost and risk should be socialized but profit should be privatized" 2007 recession anyone? These statements were made in the 90s, its almost as if he could see in to the future.
he didn't even have to look to the future, those in power have always done this, it's pretty much how power is concentrated in the first place through most of history.
Socialization of costs and privatization of profits...another clear example of this was Amazon recently got a new headquarters in New York, which cost 6 billion dollars that the taxpayers of New York will pay for. Amazon doesn't pay for their own headquarters, they got tax subsidies and the working people of New York now essentially paid the 6 billion for the headquarters when their taxes could have gone to public goods and services that benefit themselves and everyone else, like the abhorrent subway system, roads, etc. But no. The (enormous) profits Amazon will make there will not be going into the hands of the people who ended up paying for their headquarters. Not a penny. If Jeff Bezos paid for the headquarters himself, he would still be the richest man in the world, but of course that cost went to the people of New York instead. Socialization of the costs, privatization of the profits, indeed.
Thank you, Noam Chomsky. Sharp, articulate, critical. Reminding us to cross-check our favourite ideologies against the facts. Free markets, my arse. I salute Chomsky's courage, his intellect and his humanity.
If you like Chomsky, you might like Thom Hartmann. I really enjoy videos where actual political ideas and philosophical/ethical quandries are discussed instead of argumentative infotainment mired in labels and identity politicking. Also, there's an amazing episode of Firing Line with Noam Chomsky vs. William (Bill) Buckley (founder of Conservative Review). Debating at its finest :-)
Thank you Argufest for all your labor in promoting this kind of videos/lectures. I hope anyone benefiting from this work will give credit where credit is due, 'shallow' is a very kind name to call those who doesn't. Keep it up!
Argusfest - I support youi in what you are doing - having this available is great....there are some ethics in posting and you seem to follow them fine...
He truly is the face of sheer honesty and intellectual openness. So admirable to be able to be so critical of a system in which otherwise many including himself are subsumed.
+emir yi Noam is just as vulnerable towards 'subjective criteria' as the rest of us. Placing him on some type of pedestal of "sheer honesty and intellectual openness" does not help him, nor us in my view. I say that because he seems to represent a hero archetype among a, generally, dormant humanity.
Nicholas Roberts Subjectivity does not belie "sheer honesty and intellectual openness". In fact, you can cultivate your subjectivity in this direction. Noam Chomsky definitely has.
Nicholas Roberts I never rejected my being a subject in the matter. So, thank you for your input but you have not really made a point over and above what has already been said.
Thank you for the upload argufest. I have duly subscribed to you channel. Looking forward to catching up with your other content. I shall try to promote you where I can. Thanks again....
I can not possibly feel real people concerned, could actually put advertisements when they dont have to for content such as this. Removing you from this talk, although only momentarily in context to the length of the full content. I want to personally thank argusfest for not participating with this behavior. Thank you from someone who completely tries to avoid advertisements
I would say 'inb4 "theChomskyVideos" strips out your prelude to the video, and uploads it to his channel with adsense enabled', but he has already taken this video of yours (without accediting the source.)
Yea, I know. I guess it just goes with the territory. There are a lot of assholes out there. I thought about putting a watermark on the video directing people to my channel but I prefer to have the video remain unadulterated. I'm going to stick to my principles regardless.
His talk included references to countless brutal genocides all around the globe purported by the elites. That's why he had not been pleased with the laughter heard. Jus a sign of their lack of information.
@ Provider OR Contributors: Do you have the Subtitle for this great video (in .srt)? Maybe you could re-upload this video in a higher resolution, that way a subtitle will/might be added "automatically".
So hard to gauge his political impact..so strange how such a large portion of America has purposefully ignored him when they knew he had the brains and insight to offer real dissent...maybe it's the nerdy soft voice and the incheck ego,maybe its the lazy antiintellecual attitude so prevalent in greater society or the way he stuck to colleges and academic world but this guy has covered alot of ground..He really took his criticism for a long tested ride and held his ground,stuck to his guns and never gave up or gave in....Big brain,casts a big shadow...
Hi Argufest I would like to re-post this on my FB page in relation to the Phillip Miroski video. I will give your channel due credit. With much respect. Thomas Stubbs
Hmmm, not quite sure that that's accurate. Would you feel the same way if a large multi-national company stole an freelance illustrators artwork for use in their advertising without either paying or crediting the artist who created it?
This, on the other hand, is a public lecture. Sharing the video is in it's nature and the person who published here on UA-cam doesn't own rights to the talk. They are merely sharing a resource. Also, I'm largely positive that this would fall under educational terms in US copyright law and would thusly be permitted for fair use.
Did you mean "intellectual property isn't theft"? I will distribute this with due credit to Argusfest. The credit should also go to Yale and Noam Chomsky for making this open to the public
679$ Billion in liquid cash profits to preferred industries contrasted with the highest poverty rates in the industrialized world and the highest infant death rates in the industrialized world. This is the "free market" at work. How anybody can get behind this philosophy, and it is a philosophy, is beyond me.
Let's keep in mind that a lot of people have been involved in creating this content, including several different videographers and people you got the tapes from, to say nothing of the speakers. While you have done all of the uploading, it's been a co-creative process that no one has claimed possession of or put any conditions on. I'm glad you decided to not go with a watermark. It would be best if people didn't have ads. Still, I see people at "theChomskyVideos" and other channels that pick these videos up as political allies (not assholes) who are making their own contributions to furthering this information.
I will be the new chomsky. I mean, I'll try at least. Karl Marx was the Plato of the 19th century. Noam Chomsky is the Plato of the 20th century. I will be the Plato of the 21st century.
Please remember that Chomsky has had the past half-century to seek ANY type of Public Service/Elected Office, and show us all he can do a better job, himself! But instead, he chose to merely criticize everyone ELSE from the sidelines, and with the great luxury of 20/20 Hindsight!
Another great talk by Chomsky. However, while blaming governments and the elites, he fails to point out that democracy and the free market are also not compatible for the same reasons as for why the elites rig the game. Free Markets are fine if you are winning no matter who you are.
We live through very challenging times when changes are so complex, excessive and fast that minds like Noam Chomsky are required to fathom it and put them in simplest perspective for all to understand. His references are awesome, current and apt. Hats off to you sir, for such a great lecture.
Free (for the 1%) Markets (for jobs, democracy, privacy...99% ), neo-liberalism has meant a slow inevitable slide towards third world poverty for middle class etc. of the west,
+Kim Siever Did you read what I wrote? I merely asked that people give credit to the original uploader and that they not use the video for commercial purposes (to collect advertising revenue).
Not sure you understand the internet. Where did you source it from? If UA-cam allows anyone to make money off any video you should say good luck to them. UA-cam is making money off it regardless.
I am fascinated by Noam Chomsky intelligence and objectivity on all the issues that he deals, we have to take advantage that with all this years Noam still active and valid in all issues that he confront and he bring to us
I think I'm for government subsidies for research and development because there are many cases where capitalism cannot or will not invest their money for new technologies but I also believe the corporations that benefit from the subsidies should also pay higher taxes so it benefits all of us.
Edgar; I don't ever recall Chomsky saying. I suspect that all modern govs are far too corrupted by the intrigues and schemes of powerful interests, co-opted politics and subversive economic systems, brutal wars of conquest and territorial ambition, etc, to serve as a 'good' modern example. But perhaps something on a very local basis, small communal societies, or from historical anthropology re: pre-industrial eras, such as the equitable, popular-consensus mock-socialist gov of the Iroquois Confederation or the self-governing Cherokee Nation. Or early-phase isolated, 'simple' pioneer societies. The localized scale, intimate and pragmatic accountability of neo-primitive tribal and hunter-gatherer societies may be among the better models of 'good' government ~ which breaks down as the complexities of more sophistication, technology improvements, larger range of associations, availability of resources and 'outside' interests intrude on how people act, economies of trade/barter work, distribution of labor, resources are shared/distributed and managed affecting group dynamics.
When I watched the guy giving the intro I couldn't help but think that having Chomsky as a professor wouldn't have come with the trappings of a pompous professor asking questions he already knew the answers to.
I want to elaborate on why I watched this video so far. I have read basic economics, I have listened to many videos from Friedman, and I have read "The Road to Serfdom." I believe I have got the gist of neoliberalism. I am looking for someone with a system that is better than neoliberalism. I want a different point of view. In this video, I only got vague insinuations and snide remarks, not a system of thought. If this is the best of non-Chicago School economic thought, then pretty much Chicago/Austrian School wins by default.
+Christian Libertarian naom isnt an economist. he's a political commentator. in the context of politics, neoliberalism should be chided. from an objective standpoint, the policies followed over the last 40 some odd years have created worse outcomes than we could have imagined, especially in the realm of political power, where money translates immediately to influence. if you're looking for a different school of economics, there are many out there, but dont listen to a linguistics perfessor if you want to learn about economic philosophies that counters the chicago school and free market ideologies.
Norway does well because of its oil wealth. Basically, it pulls money out of the ground. Norway handles that wealth better than any country in the world, but it is not a model that the US or most other countries can follow.
Princess ~ More like, castigated, villainized, mocked, denigrated and scorned by the volatile Rep-Dem rightwing nattering masses as a genuine leftist, and as "Chumpsky" despised as an outmoded classic 'liberal' for elaborately pointing out in exquisite detail the systemic hypocrisies, contradictions and inconsistencies of the west's un-free trade and controlled 'open' market model of predatory authoritarian casino-disasterism capitalism.
His argument against minimizing the state is a contradiction. He says that minimizing the state gives power to corporations, and in the same time, he says, that big corporations need government protection in some cases. Which one can give more protection to a corporation, a big government with lots of $$$ or a minizied one? I think, the first! Anyway, the main issue is not with whether the government is small or not, but with government corruption, which is also a big argument beside minizing state!
He isn’t arguing against minimization the state. He’s contrasting Neoliberalism in theory (minimization of the state, deregulation, privatization, liberalizing finance, etc.) with Neoliberalism in practice (dependency on state invention when markets fail, tariffs when free market functions lead to outcomes we don’t like, free markets so long as American private interests are met, etc.). While it’s true that Chomsky is a self-described Anarchist, here’s not really making any policy prescriptions here. Rather, he is highlighting the glaring contradictions built into Neoliberalism.
I have watched half of this video. He has yet to make a point, only snide remarks. He seems to be vaguely opposed to the free enterprise system, but offers no alternative. In fact, he just seems to be anti-American, and nothing else. This is not being principled, it is simply being insulting. Maybe there is some nugget of wisdom in the second half of the video. I don't know. He is just not interesting enough to listen to anymore.
+Christian Libertarian You seem to be looking for an easily digestible talking point. His point emerges throughout the talk, also wouldn't kill you to read a bit of his works.
I've watched a lot of Chomsky's videos, but have never been interested enough in anything he says to read any of his stuff. I am not looking for talking points. I am looking for underlying theory on which to base evaluation of future events. All Chomsky has ever said boils down to "big business bad." OK, but what then? What is the alternative? What other system of thought should I use to evaluate the future? He doesn't have anything. All I hear is whining, no building.
Aren't you annoyed by hypocrisy and duplicity ? Tax-payers subsidize R&D in electronics, aircraft and metallurgy(masked as military spending by the government, (SDI) for example), and at the same time are admonished not to rely on the nanny state. Are only the rich entitled to the privilege of taking over, once the R&D has been completed with public funds, and profits start coming in? Why should the big companies(Boeing, Cray, General Electric) be protected from market forces, when the average entrepreneur has no such privilege, and has to ruthlessly be exposed to them ? Shouldn't they fund their own research and not rely on public subsidy ?Then the tax-payers money could be spent on education, healthcare, housing for the homeless, parks etc. On this specific subject, the alternative that could be pursued by government, is dismantling what Chomsky calls 'the welfare state for the rich', and commit itself to social spending.
Your interpretation that the government should quit spending on big companies is fine, and gives one a structure on which to hang his metaphorical hat. But that is not what I get out of what Chomsky says. If he would say, "The government should stop spending on this." I would be all aboard. But he doesn't say that in the video, up to the point I stopped watching.
I strongly recommend his book World Orders: Old and New, where he substantiates all his claims and accusations, in a far more coherent manner. He has a long chapter, where he explains how the principles of free trade and classical economics, have been consistently violated in history by the developed countries(imperial preference, tariffs, state-intervention), while demanding that Third World countries conform to them, through the IMF and the World Bank. Unfortunately he is not a gifted lecturer though he compensates by being a moral titan
I actually download to burn to cd. Trucker here. I enjoy days of cd listening. Thanks for posting.
JACK M yeah, how is it? Asking for homie
I'm a cleaner and I listen to stuff like this while up to my elbows in unpleasant things...
You ever wonder if it's useful for working class plebs like me to know the approximate meaning of words like "communism" and "neo-conservatism".
Given how all this stuff is so heavily propogandised and redefined, seemingly right under our noses, does it not simply play into the hands of the masters when I fill my head with these lofty ideas but find my feet rooted to the spot.
@@contentsniffer yay i am a dishwasher and I listen to this too ! I love Mr Chomsky.
Wow I listen to these cleaning the floor 😅😮🎉
This lecture deserves 10 million views. The peoples of the world should know what they're facing.
Noam starts at 4:44
"cost and risk should be socialized but profit should be privatized" 2007 recession anyone? These statements were made in the 90s, its almost as if he could see in to the future.
he didn't even have to look to the future, those in power have always done this, it's pretty much how power is concentrated in the first place through most of history.
Socialization of costs and privatization of profits...another clear example of this was Amazon recently got a new headquarters in New York, which cost 6 billion dollars that the taxpayers of New York will pay for. Amazon doesn't pay for their own headquarters, they got tax subsidies and the working people of New York now essentially paid the 6 billion for the headquarters when their taxes could have gone to public goods and services that benefit themselves and everyone else, like the abhorrent subway system, roads, etc. But no.
The (enormous) profits Amazon will make there will not be going into the hands of the people who ended up paying for their headquarters. Not a penny. If Jeff Bezos paid for the headquarters himself, he would still be the richest man in the world, but of course that cost went to the people of New York instead. Socialization of the costs, privatization of the profits, indeed.
@@mikeisapro except NY said no thanks to Amazon. www.npr.org/2019/02/14/694740118/amazon-drops-plans-for-new-york-headquarters
@@mikeisapro I guess the government has to socialize the costs to keep jobs here.
Do you realise there franchise owner you buy from, the not corporation dumb Democrat
THNX! Noam stores facts like a supercomputer. Amazing gifted man. I love listening to him
Thank you, Noam Chomsky. Sharp, articulate, critical. Reminding us to cross-check our favourite ideologies against the facts. Free markets, my arse. I salute Chomsky's courage, his intellect and his humanity.
+San Patch Please get him VP
If you like Chomsky, you might like Thom Hartmann.
I really enjoy videos where actual political ideas and philosophical/ethical quandries are discussed instead of argumentative infotainment mired in labels and identity politicking.
Also, there's an amazing episode of Firing Line with Noam Chomsky vs. William (Bill) Buckley (founder of Conservative Review). Debating at its finest :-)
@ brig mimpniks. Thanks for you above suggestion. I shall Hartmann after I have finished watching this one. Thanks again...
Also recommend Michael Parenti. He's more of a Marxist, but has brilliant talks and analyses.
Michael Bailey nutcase piece of shit
wow, his voice is so calming
Amazing channel, thank you for putting in all the work it takes to get these videos out here for the public's consumption. It is well appreciated.
Thank you Argufest for all your labor in promoting this kind of videos/lectures. I hope anyone benefiting from this work will give credit where credit is due, 'shallow' is a very kind name to call those who doesn't. Keep it up!
20 years and the problems get only worse...
Now is waaaay worse.
Thank you for the upload, argusfest!
Thank you, Argusfest, for making this available.
Thank you very much for this upload!
it would be great to have a revised version of this with youtubes new "chapter" function, so you can find his statements more easily
Great. Thanks for the upload.
@argusfest Your channel is the Mother-lode of Full Length lectures, Thank you for your work.
Wow.... blown away. Thank you Argusfest for making this very enlightening talk available.
Thanks for uploading this!
Great upload, thanks!
Argusfest - I support youi in what you are doing - having this available is great....there are some ethics in posting and you seem to follow them fine...
Thank you for posting.
Great share! Thank you.
thank you very much for sharing
He truly is the face of sheer honesty and intellectual openness. So admirable to be able to be so critical of a system in which otherwise many including himself are subsumed.
emir yi Its frustrating how others don't see it right?
+emir yi Noam is just as vulnerable towards 'subjective criteria' as the rest of us. Placing him on some type of pedestal of "sheer honesty and intellectual openness" does not help him, nor us in my view. I say that because he seems to represent a hero archetype among a, generally, dormant humanity.
Nicholas Roberts Subjectivity does not belie "sheer honesty and intellectual openness". In fact, you can cultivate your subjectivity in this direction. Noam Chomsky definitely has.
Dude you just said "in fact". This shared experience is merely a consensus, hense my use of the word "subjective".
Nicholas Roberts I never rejected my being a subject in the matter. So, thank you for your input but you have not really made a point over and above what has already been said.
Thank you for the upload argufest. I have duly subscribed to you channel. Looking forward to catching up with your other content. I shall try to promote you where I can. Thanks again....
I: Thank you for uploading this!
The introduction was great and thank you
Good job @argusfest !!!
I agree with your disclaimer and you do deserve credit for finding/capturing this material.
Subbed :)
The Clinton era produced some fantastic talks from Chomsky. This lays bare the entirety of our economic system in less than 90 minutes.
My mom always says, "I'm completely for free market and absolutely no government involvement." Next time I'll probably say "that's a trick statement."
Big thing I've learned is this:
Communications are not automobiles
I can not possibly feel real people concerned, could actually put advertisements when they dont have to for content such as this.
Removing you from this talk, although only momentarily in context to the length of the full content.
I want to personally thank argusfest for not participating with this behavior.
Thank you from someone who completely tries to avoid advertisements
I would say 'inb4 "theChomskyVideos" strips out your prelude to the video, and uploads it to his channel with adsense enabled', but he has already taken this video of yours (without accediting the source.)
Yea, I know. I guess it just goes with the territory. There are a lot of assholes out there. I thought about putting a watermark on the video directing people to my channel but I prefer to have the video remain unadulterated. I'm going to stick to my principles regardless.
His talk included references to countless brutal genocides all around the globe purported by the elites. That's why he had not been pleased with the laughter heard. Jus a sign of their lack of information.
Can you please post transcripts if they exist for this video?
Much in "Profit Over People"
@ Provider OR Contributors: Do you have the Subtitle for this great video (in .srt)?
Maybe you could re-upload this video in a higher resolution, that way a subtitle will/might be added "automatically".
thanks for sharing
So hard to gauge his political impact..so strange how such a large portion of America has purposefully ignored him when they knew he had the brains and insight to offer real dissent...maybe it's the nerdy soft voice and the incheck ego,maybe its the lazy antiintellecual attitude so prevalent in greater society or the way he stuck to colleges and academic world but this guy has covered alot of ground..He really took his criticism for a long tested ride and held his ground,stuck to his guns and never gave up or gave in....Big brain,casts a big shadow...
Is the Q&A available anywhere?
thank youuu !
What was the name of the Economic Historian he mentioned, I believe he said Virouche or Viroche or something? Mentions it around 54:57
I believe he is referring to Paul Bairoch, but not sure?
Thank you a ton
Haven't seen such a nervous MC before.
Hi Argufest I would like to re-post this on my FB page in relation to the Phillip Miroski video. I will give your channel due credit. With much respect. Thomas Stubbs
Intellectual property is theft. Distribute this video however you'd like
Hmmm, not quite sure that that's accurate. Would you feel the same way if a large multi-national company stole an freelance illustrators artwork for use in their advertising without either paying or crediting the artist who created it?
This, on the other hand, is a public lecture. Sharing the video is in it's nature and the person who published here on UA-cam doesn't own rights to the talk. They are merely sharing a resource.
Also, I'm largely positive that this would fall under educational terms in US copyright law and would thusly be permitted for fair use.
Did you mean "intellectual property isn't theft"? I will distribute this with due credit to Argusfest. The credit should also go to Yale and Noam Chomsky for making this open to the public
thank you
Who's in the room with him during this talk?
679$ Billion in liquid cash profits to preferred industries contrasted with the highest poverty rates in the industrialized world and the highest infant death rates in the industrialized world.
This is the "free market" at work.
How anybody can get behind this philosophy, and it is a philosophy, is beyond me.
Let's keep in mind that a lot of people have been involved in creating this content, including several different videographers and people you got the tapes from, to say nothing of the speakers. While you have done all of the uploading, it's been a co-creative process that no one has claimed possession of or put any conditions on. I'm glad you decided to not go with a watermark.
It would be best if people didn't have ads. Still, I see people at "theChomskyVideos" and other channels that pick these videos up as political allies (not assholes) who are making their own contributions to furthering this information.
need the transcript
The irony is that he's giving this speech at Yale.. which we all know is the Spook University...
Truth Told!!
We need a new Noam Chomsky. Sadly, Mr. Chomsky won't be with us for much longer.
I will be the new chomsky. I mean, I'll try at least.
Karl Marx was the Plato of the 19th century. Noam Chomsky is the Plato of the 20th century. I will be the Plato of the 21st century.
want to see chomsky as the next prsident 0f US
Please remember that Chomsky has had the past half-century to seek ANY type of Public Service/Elected Office, and show us all he can do a better job, himself!
But instead, he chose to merely criticize everyone ELSE from the sidelines, and with the great luxury of 20/20 Hindsight!
@@mck1972 And there's the troll again. Don't you have anything better to do?
@@Kalumbatsch ,
Please don't Shoot the Messenger, just because you don't wish to face the reality of the message.
Nice introduction.
Another great talk by Chomsky. However, while blaming governments and the elites, he fails to point out that democracy and the free market are also not compatible for the same reasons as for why the elites rig the game. Free Markets are fine if you are winning no matter who you are.
We live through very challenging times when changes are so complex, excessive and fast that minds like Noam Chomsky are required to fathom it and put them in simplest perspective for all to understand. His references are awesome, current and apt. Hats off to you sir, for such a great lecture.
4:30
Free (for the 1%) Markets (for jobs, democracy, privacy...99% ), neo-liberalism has meant a slow inevitable slide towards third world poverty for middle class etc. of the west,
Time for US americans to leave the Matrix and face the enlightning shitty truth.
I see there is no longer the category of Nonprofit & Activism on this site. 0_o
Wow, was there such a category back in the day?
wow
Ironic that you put up a request not to take your videos on a video of Noam Chomsky.
+Kim Siever Did you read what I wrote? I merely asked that people give credit to the original uploader and that they not use the video for commercial purposes (to collect advertising revenue).
I don't understand what you're saying, Emma.
Not sure you understand the internet. Where did you source it from?
If UA-cam allows anyone to make money off any video you should say good luck to them. UA-cam is making money off it regardless.
Why?
J William Pope Because it wasn't his video to upload in the first place.
I am fascinated by Noam Chomsky intelligence and objectivity on all the issues that he deals, we have to take advantage that with all this years Noam still active and valid in all issues that he confront and he bring to us
31:30 - omg this aged so so well. We're so 'tired' of megacorporations winning so much.
What a Great man
Yur the best.
Neoliberalism and democracy cannot walk hand in hand
19:29 .
Minimise the state, decision-making power is slipping into private hands - maximising private
25:00 😂roast
Free market =monopoly’s that is what free market really means it is just a code word it also means Cronie capitalism
cobb county ga. our number 1 export is hypocrisy
Wow so Cuba is to the US what Taiwan is to China?
So amazing that he was warning about this 20 years ago, and it's really coming to a head now in 2018.
48:44
The political establishments time is coming.
Chomsky from 4:36
academic gatekeeper and truth teller at the same time??This is how disinformation works!!!!!
we need revolution !!!!!!
I think I'm for government subsidies for research and development because there are many cases where capitalism cannot or will not invest their money for new technologies but I also believe the corporations that benefit from the subsidies should also pay higher taxes so it benefits all of us.
What about the plutocracy?
13:10
1:07:00
So what country does Chomsky see as a good example of government?
Edgar; I don't ever recall Chomsky saying. I suspect that all modern govs are far too corrupted by the intrigues and schemes of powerful interests, co-opted politics and subversive economic systems, brutal wars of conquest and territorial ambition, etc, to serve as a 'good' modern example.
But perhaps something on a very local basis, small communal societies, or from historical anthropology re: pre-industrial eras, such as the equitable, popular-consensus mock-socialist gov of the Iroquois Confederation or the self-governing Cherokee Nation. Or early-phase isolated, 'simple' pioneer societies.
The localized scale, intimate and pragmatic accountability of neo-primitive tribal and hunter-gatherer societies may be among the better models of 'good' government ~ which breaks down as the complexities of more sophistication, technology improvements, larger range of associations, availability of resources and 'outside' interests intrude on how people act, economies of trade/barter work, distribution of labor, resources are shared/distributed and managed affecting group dynamics.
Spain (parts of) before the civil war for instance.
He's pointed to the operations of isreali kibbutz as encompassing some of the successes of anarco syndicalism
happy to have found Noam Chomsky againas he is most needed in the mix of facts
When I watched the guy giving the intro I couldn't help but think that having Chomsky as a professor wouldn't have come with the trappings of a pompous professor asking questions he already knew the answers to.
F.O.S..
If he’d stuck to linguistic, no one would have heard of him!
These people use too many words to convey a message.
Noam at 4:35
Used to like this guy. Now I thinks he's a CIA asset
I want to elaborate on why I watched this video so far. I have read basic economics, I have listened to many videos from Friedman, and I have read "The Road to Serfdom." I believe I have got the gist of neoliberalism.
I am looking for someone with a system that is better than neoliberalism. I want a different point of view. In this video, I only got vague insinuations and snide remarks, not a system of thought. If this is the best of non-Chicago School economic thought, then pretty much Chicago/Austrian School wins by default.
+Christian Libertarian naom isnt an economist. he's a political commentator. in the context of politics, neoliberalism should be chided. from an objective standpoint, the policies followed over the last 40 some odd years have created worse outcomes than we could have imagined, especially in the realm of political power, where money translates immediately to influence. if you're looking for a different school of economics, there are many out there, but dont listen to a linguistics perfessor if you want to learn about economic philosophies that counters the chicago school and free market ideologies.
in Norway we've got a mixed economy, it seems to work well.
Norway does well because of its oil wealth. Basically, it pulls money out of the ground. Norway handles that wealth better than any country in the world, but it is not a model that the US or most other countries can follow.
Should not be hard, more or less every economic doctrine is better than Neoliberalism unless you are a member of the rchest 1% of the world
Well, so far it has been impossible. If you know of some site that describes such a system, please let me know.
Chomsky, American liberal, posing as a leftist.
How?
Princess ~ More like, castigated, villainized, mocked, denigrated and scorned by the volatile Rep-Dem rightwing nattering masses as a genuine leftist, and as "Chumpsky" despised as an outmoded classic 'liberal' for elaborately pointing out in exquisite detail the systemic hypocrisies, contradictions and inconsistencies of the west's un-free trade and controlled 'open' market model of predatory authoritarian casino-disasterism capitalism.
@@starmanskye yes ✌️
His argument against minimizing the state is a contradiction. He says that minimizing the state gives power to corporations, and in the same time, he says, that big corporations need government protection in some cases. Which one can give more protection to a corporation, a big government with lots of $$$ or a minizied one? I think, the first! Anyway, the main issue is not with whether the government is small or not, but with government corruption, which is also a big argument beside minizing state!
He isn’t arguing against minimization the state. He’s contrasting Neoliberalism in theory (minimization of the state, deregulation, privatization, liberalizing finance, etc.) with Neoliberalism in practice (dependency on state invention when markets fail, tariffs when free market functions lead to outcomes we don’t like, free markets so long as American private interests are met, etc.). While it’s true that Chomsky is a self-described Anarchist, here’s not really making any policy prescriptions here. Rather, he is highlighting the glaring contradictions built into Neoliberalism.
Doing a speech about entitlements inside a fox den is futile.
So, capitalism is bad and communism is good.
Gatekeeper.
I have watched half of this video. He has yet to make a point, only snide remarks. He seems to be vaguely opposed to the free enterprise system, but offers no alternative. In fact, he just seems to be anti-American, and nothing else. This is not being principled, it is simply being insulting.
Maybe there is some nugget of wisdom in the second half of the video. I don't know. He is just not interesting enough to listen to anymore.
+Christian Libertarian You seem to be looking for an easily digestible talking point. His point emerges throughout the talk, also wouldn't kill you to read a bit of his works.
I've watched a lot of Chomsky's videos, but have never been interested enough in anything he says to read any of his stuff. I am not looking for talking points. I am looking for underlying theory on which to base evaluation of future events. All Chomsky has ever said boils down to "big business bad." OK, but what then? What is the alternative? What other system of thought should I use to evaluate the future? He doesn't have anything. All I hear is whining, no building.
Aren't you annoyed by hypocrisy and duplicity ? Tax-payers subsidize R&D in electronics, aircraft and metallurgy(masked as military spending by the government, (SDI) for example), and at the same time are admonished not to rely on the nanny state. Are only the rich entitled to the privilege of taking over, once the R&D has been completed with public funds, and profits start coming in? Why should the big companies(Boeing, Cray, General Electric) be protected from market forces, when the average entrepreneur has no such privilege, and has to ruthlessly be exposed to them ? Shouldn't they fund their own research and not rely on public subsidy ?Then the tax-payers money could be spent on education, healthcare, housing for the homeless, parks etc. On this specific subject, the alternative that could be pursued by government, is dismantling what Chomsky calls 'the welfare state for the rich', and commit itself to social spending.
Your interpretation that the government should quit spending on big companies is fine, and gives one a structure on which to hang his metaphorical hat. But that is not what I get out of what Chomsky says. If he would say, "The government should stop spending on this." I would be all aboard. But he doesn't say that in the video, up to the point I stopped watching.
I strongly recommend his book World Orders: Old and New, where he substantiates all his claims and accusations, in a far more coherent manner. He has a long chapter, where he explains how the principles of free trade and classical economics, have been consistently violated in history by the developed countries(imperial preference, tariffs, state-intervention), while demanding that Third World countries conform to them, through the IMF and the World Bank. Unfortunately he is not a gifted lecturer though he compensates by being a moral titan