Originally posted by anarchocommie+--> (anarchocommie)Actually I was being a little facetious, I didnt really expect that off the cuff comment to be combed over for political accuracy.[/b]
I didn't really think so I was just pointing out Chomsky's theory seems to be some type of a community based society that has some marx ideas but is not Marxism.
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Actually..while Chomsky does talk against the blind devotion to Marx and Marxism he has some use for, like all communist should, for his class analysis and his work toward at least trying to develop coherrant opposition to capitalism, flawed theories or not.
Interesting. Yes, Chomsky seems to want community based societies in which the workers control their own resources. The workers would not have to follow any one ideology in order to do this, but coercion would never be justified (like the coercion of CEO and worker). His opposition to capitalism is pretty clear though if you ask me: corporations are unjustly put in positions of power because they control the resources and the government is just there to protect them, they're "fascist" in nature and "authoritarian," this sounds like communist criticism but this is really just anarchist criticism (as you know).
I've listened to some chomsky speeches on anarchy and he says that libertarian-socialism and the nonstatist version of marxism is what he prefers.
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He does fault Lenin and Trotsky, and I agree with him,(although I wouldnt say worse or as bad as Stalin), but he also said he found worth in Lenins Revolution and The State and his April Thesis, aso even that isnt absolute.
Yes and he's also said corporations sometimes do good things to, and that there was some "justification" to FDR's authoritarian state. Chomsky uses logic to show that under current situations some things he may not like are actually better than the alternative. (Like his support for a Universal Health Care even though he is an anarchist. This could also lead to anarchy, as things would get better and better and it would be easier to make the transition.) How many more people would have starved if capitalists had been put in place rather than authoritarian socialists? Probably more people. I don't know what he was talking about ther,e or even if it was true, but Chomsky has said Lenin and Stalin were equal terrorists.