Get to know godfather of Occupy movement
Some “Occupiers” subscribe to Noam Chomsky’s modified Marxism, which he calls anarcho-socialism, a philosophy that has been around for over 55 years — the time Chomsky has been a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor.
Although Chomsky made his academic mark in linguistics, he is more widely known as godfather of the Occupy movement — a movement he enthusiastically endorses.
Chomsky states: “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 will 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.”
So when Chomsky speaks of appropriation, he means workers taking possession of all business and industry without compensation. He rejects the current system of capitalism which means the rejection of private property. As Chomsky and the Occupy movement prove, Marxism dies hard — even with the modern economic failures of the former Soviet Union, Cuba, North Korea, Maoist China — not the current capitalistic China — and Zimbabwe.
Even though Marxist socialism has never worked, there is a minority who still think the fantasy of a classless society is an authentic objective — although it flies in the face of differing work ethics, abilities and initiatives, something capitalism respects.
As a member of the Industrial Workers of the World, Chomsky advocates the elimination of capitalism — a fair description of some in the Occupy movement.
Theodore H. Loy, Normal
