The "people" number 250,000,000. Surelythere are brilliant minds among that many, ample funds too, to go up against the tiny few the vast majority allow to run them nowadays. Chomsky noted there are 1,000,000 workers who, having gotten a taste of freedom during covid by being forced to work from home who now REFUSE to ever return to those prison like offices. Studies show it costs between $34-$53 DAILY for a person to work anywhere but home. Do the math. Why would anyone be willing to entertain that habitual expense for random strangers profit? Each 1 of us CAN make a difference. That can benefit both ourself and the whole. You dont have to be Superman, Chompsky or Einstein to figure out how and when to make YOUR move.
Perhaps if Psy sang and danced what Chomsky was detailing, 100 million people would watch this and we could take back society from the elite oligarchy.
No actually don't read foucault because if you want something that you can conceptualize and apply Foucault's concept of power is while more accurate in actually defining power, is actually much more difficult to apply.
Ellias Canetti: Masses and Power(or Might); Machiavelli: The Prince; Le Bon: The Masses; although only indirectly linked i would give Sun Tzus: Art of War a go, as it has to do with mass psychology.
I've heard him reference the supposed reaction by elites to the "civilizing" and democratizing by the public that went on in the 60s before, but this is the first time I noted his examples. The two examples he gives here at the end are _The Powell Memo_ (1971) and _The Crisis of Democracy- Trilateral Commission_ (1975). After reading the first and part of the latter, I must recommend reading these for yourself. It's truly shocking how little he's exaggerating when he stresses how disturbed elites were by the popular movements and how determined they were to regain control and suppress democratization.
Even though I heard this same talk so many times, I always listen to it because each time he introduces new facts and different people I have never heard of.
I posted this on the neoliberal subreddit (yeah that's a thing), they all insisted this isn't neoliberalism but rather libertarian. Its like listening to a battered wife.
KentAllard - you know, I've majored in political science for 4 years so far and in that time I still can't figure out how people classify themselves. There is so much variety within each group, at what point can one still identify themselves with that group, while still having disagreements?
KentAllard With the huge governments we have in the West how can these fools even try to claim that this is libertarianism?! That is borderline delusional!
It's mainly cable news brainwashing...rarely their fault. Neoliberals think they're "good people" who think that all of us have to sacrifice on the fiery altar of state-capitalism to succeed in this world. They have accepted that as the only legitimate reality. Total delusion.
I don't think it's a stretch to say that Noam Chomsky's definition of Neo-liberalism is the greatest pathology that humanity has ever had to live through. One might note that there have been past atrocities, which are legitimate, of course. However, Neo-liberalism seeks to ratify, legitimate and mass produce a never-ending chain of horrors. I believe that makes it worse. It is a reveling in that which causes human suffering to occur.
Always heartening and edifying to hear from Mr Chomsky. His command of the facts helps cut through the various confusing ideological positions leading us to a more adult reasoned outlook that we would do well to adopt.
Yes. But he's not perfect. He himself desires an educated (generally speaking) audience. When I heard him speak here in Toronto, he told the audience 'Don't believe me'. Which got their attention. And then he made the important point that you need to question authority and be skeptical. If you believe that he can't be wrong, ever, then what happens when he 'is' wrong?
Arrbyy+ Thats not an issue: Chomsky is never wrong, concider him as God and everything will be fine. I would vote for him if he'd run for "world dictatorship". :-)
Thank you! I think this is the first time I have heard Mr. Chomsky speak about the Troika outside of his talk with Yanis Varoufakis which I've listened to carefully and learned a lot from. And thank you Noam Chomsky!
I suggested that the Israelis insure the Palestinians & Palestinians insure the Israelis as a disincentive to the killings of innocents. I was attacked on Twitter where I am Transcendian by a Palestinian who said "Nobody will decide for Palestine." I am brought to the conclusion that both sides are inflexible. It likely would take UN forces of Gendarmes in Gaza to keep the peace. For even my disincentive it would likely take the UN forcing them to insure each other. But yah know they have gone on this way my whole life.
50:30 a study from a swiss university in a newspaper i read about in either november 2012 or 2013 collected publicly available data on companies and their owners and came to the conlcusion that roughly 130 companies do own 90% over 2 million companies world wide. The intertwined state of the shares through mother and daugheter companies often masked that in studies before, but as they put all data in a huge electronic database and connected the dots it turned out that only 130 so to speak mega companies are left and due to blood relations, marriage or just alliances it may be broken down to only 30. It was said that there seems to be a huge pressure for this concentration of corporate wealth and power and due to that massive wealth is concentrated. That lead to a conclusion as a sideeffect of that study which wasn't intentional as they then stated that this would be the biggest threat to democracies worldwide. 1:10:00 Why would the US need educaton, from the perspectives of the owners, when you have 50% of economies world wide under your controll, you just use the things developed somewhere else. 1:14:00 i wonder what he thinks is going on in Bilderberg meetings
@@fernandofisher8489 It was done by "Technischen Hochschule (ETH) Zürich" I found an article from a different newspaper on the same study. It is in german, if you have ways to translate that or can read it even better, but i guess there should be also international responses on this if you do a deep dive into google search. www.fr.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen-kontrollieren-welt-11371704.html
@@fernandofisher8489 The article says 2011 and 145 companies, thats because it is an ongoing study. The article i read first, was from november 2012 as far as i can remember by now. The original newspaper i readabout this was spiegel.de .
As a counterpoint, Poland was also subjected to the shock therapy in 1990 (our prime minister was directly advised by Jeffrey Sachs, the author of the concept of shock therapy), and has more or less stuck to neoliberal policies after that. Now, in 2024, the people's standard of living is incomparably higher vs year 1990. The policies have basically worked really well for us.
In 1973 the Trilateralists met under the chair of David Rockefeller in NYC and stated in The Crisis of Democracy that people were too well-educated and there was an excess of democracy. Expectations were too high. Libertarianism (funded by the Koch brothers - now one - and funnelled through James McGill Buchanan) and Neoliberalism were great covers to rectify that situation. Now the word “freedom” has been co-opted by the alt right as a toxic word meaning selfishness and disregard for communal well-being. One of the other things done was so-called think tanks were established under the Koch brothers Atlas network.
Could someone kindly please edit out the introductioniary part, and upload it on RU-vid so many could benefit from hearing what Chomskey says instead of skipping it in first few minutes?
I was fascinated by the Dwight Eisenhour. 1952 presidential campaign speech quote. "I have no use for those, regardless of their political party, who hold some foolish dream of spinning the clock back to days when unorganised labour was a huddled almost helpless mass. Today, in America, unions have a secure place in our industrial life; only a handful of un-reconstructed reactionaries harbour the ugly thought of breaking unions. Only a fool would try to deprive the working man or woman of the right to join a union of their choice".
As an endless stream of exhaust fumes-belching cars go by just outside the windows. Should have gone with a comprehensive mass transportation system long ago, but the U.S. thought it was better for every person to have their own gas-burning vehicle instead. Cough! Cough!
Oil is life. Get over it. Oil makes everything including Other energy. Only nuclear power will work To 'Zero' carbon goals. Wind and solar and batteries are A joke. In fact anything but oil Is DEMOCIDE like Socialists and Marxists last Century. Green DEMOCIDE.
Because with Noam Chomsky, you get so engrossed with what he's saying that you wouldn't mind what's going on outside, except of course if you don't belong to that forum
Bernard Popp are you asking for a concise summary of his views? There are videos, and published essays if you want to go in depth, of him talking about it if you google it. That, and you can google for vids, or just wiki, libertarian socialism and anarcho-syndicalism, which are what he subscribes to. ✌🏼
Neolibralism has infected the US political system on both sides (The Democratic and Republican party) The only difference is the Democratic party advocates increased government spending when it suits their needs. Neolibralism Definition: 1. a political approach that favors free-market capitalism, deregulation, and reduction in government spending. 2. Neoliberalism is contemporarily used to refer to market-oriented reform policies such as "eliminating price controls, deregulating capital markets, lowering trade barriers" and reducing, especially through privatization and austerity, state influence in the economy. Any objective logical individual can see both parties largely fit these definitions and neither has ever stopped the Neolibralism agenda except for when the bill/policy directly goes against their own interests which is the exception to the norm of solidifying Neolibralist subservience and measures!
The building, or at least this room is awful to have someone like Noam Chomsky. I want to be 100% focused in what he is saying, but the cars, the people walking and the rest truly distract me.
@@nuvaneducation, like many other government services like the military, do not need to be tax payer funded. the government is not funded by tax money.
50:40 who owns world's wealth 53:40 buying elections 57:40 mobilise factions for votes 1:07:48 german banks getting back their bad loans 1:09:08 education
It would have been mightily useful, during last year's referendum, to have the voices of Chomsky and Varoufakis speak up for the progressive pro-democracy and anti-neoliberal side for Leave, so that "Brexit" (hate that word) was not viewed almost universally as a reactionary xenophobic kneejerk fit of anger, but rather a rational and moral affirmation of democracy in the face of a global financial technocratic dictatorship. Jus' sayin'.
The problem there is that Brexit is backed by disaster capitalists and taxevaders. The post brexit plan is to make Britain a tax haven, that's not rejecting neo-liberalism.
I do not understand Noam's term Neo-Liberalism. To my understanding Reagan Conservatism, weakening Govt, weakening Unions growing bank power, i.e. the "problems" are not liberal or new. What is neo-liberalism about Repbulican programs.?
Milton Chapman To my understanding, it's all of that but coming from people who purport to be left wing. Labels are difficult since the overton window is so far shifted to the right.
So you agree with Chomsky when he says of neo-liberalism that "Its not new and it isn't liberalism"? - less lightly there are plenty of books out there that write about neo-liberalism and would explain why Reagan and Thatcher (as examples) were subtle variations of the neoliberal agenda in the political and economic sense. One brief but informative book about neoliberalism is Steger and Roy "neoliberalism: a very short introduction" (part of the Oxford short introductions series).
Milton Chapman Neo-liberalism should be understood as a purely economic term. Those we in the US have called conservatives and neo-conservatives have long espoused neo-liberal economic theory. (See comment by hoogmonster.)
IN MY BOOK, MR NOAM CHOMSKY IS THE ONLY PROPHET IN OUR MODERN WORLD, YES, A TRUE PROPHET, THAT NEEDS NO INTRODUCTION. TOTAL INTEGRITY PERSONALISED AS A HUMAN BEING, TO USE NOT ONLY AS AN ANALOGY, BUT ALSO AS A TRUE HONEST HUMAN BEING.
It would almost be a understatement to say he has memory. More like a vast hard drive that stores facts and data that one could only ever find in a textbook. He has gobbled everything and knows more than the average citizen though I'm suspicious about his intellectual honesty
nathan wallace Don't worry, he is quite honest in his assesments and you can look at his sources and citations to see that. He mostly quotes mainstream discourse and intellectuals, along with respectable sources on polls and data.
+Chris Parker Is that what passes for wit around here? So sad. Although I am flattered that you think pretending to be interested in what I say would score you points.
The main body of left-wing thinkers are sycophants. They'll abandon the leftist ideology the second they realize that they no longer gain status from supporting it.
Sad that he's currently becoming a laughing matter due to his stance on the fascist invasion of Ukraine. His work in academia, and economic views, are definitely worthwhile and need consideration.
And is he wrong?Ukraine is just another unnecessary proxy war , engineered and fueled and escalated and funded by the US for her geopolitical or should I say hegemonic interests of the 20th century. Everything I predicted at the beginning of the war eventually came to prophecy, that US and Europe had no intention of letting Ukraine into NATO,and neither did they have any intention of dieing for Ukraine whatever it is, despite pounding the war drums and urging the Ukrainians in some sort of a
Venezuela was in poverty before the few years the economies been under Chavez's direction, neoliberalism destroys and loots most of the global south for the european white elite of their countries and the elite of ours. Chavez's direction tries to undo that thievary and balance it a bit, it could be done better obviously not saying it's perfect. The govt has also been suffering under sanctions since its existence and the U.S govt's been trying to overthrow it since its inception so if we'd like them to do better we could first lift the sanctions and stop trying to start a coup there so the govt doesnt have to focus its time on finding infiltrators and what now.
Arrbyy When Yanis was still in the office syriza was siding with the people of Greece. After he was forced to leave, the party bent over to the rule of the Troika.
bob Pointless. His translated books and articles translated into many languages amount to entire libraries all over the world. There are probably thousands of hours of video footage from interviews, discussions and lectures. It wouldn't matter if he died tomorrow. His theories will continue to be discussed for centuries to come.
Remember that Chomsky is an anarchist. Before you decide you agree with his views, take the trouble to find out what anarchism actually is. It certainly is not about preserving individual freedom or improving Western democracies. I wish Chomsky had the honesty and integrity to make his real views clear; but then if he did the book sales would fall!
He's been very honest about that, there was one talk "On Anarchism" that was just about his views on anarchism, his C-Span BookTalks interview he goes in detail, those are two that just I remember off the top of my head, his Q&A's also frequently have him outline his views. In addition, its your opinion that anarchism cannot be structured to protect individual values or western democracies, its his opinion that it can be (mine too). It requires imagination to think of a different kind of world. It's funny you accuse Chomsky of being disingenuous for not telling people his personal political economic vision for the world every time he critiques something, yet I didn't hear you outline your (let's be honest, conservative) views while making this comment. BTW I think conservative free market capitalist values do not protect individual freedom or encourage western democracies to flourish, but I'm assuming you'd disagree. See how that works, people think different from one another, how scary.
"It certainly is not about preserving individual freedom..." It actually is. Maybe you should heed your own advise. "... or improving Western democracies." Again, Anarchism would be an improvement. Again you should heed your own advise.
Sorry Stafford but this reply was made of wrong - except for the fact that Chomsky is an Anarchist thinker - who clearly and continually has spoken honestly about his advocacy of anarcho-syndicalism. I've taken the trouble to find out what Anarchism is, and frankly it IS about freedom, and it is about true democracy. Seems you don't really understand what Anarchy is, and are intent to peddle the mainstream cliches that come from no deep reading whatsoever. Still if you want to live in a society which offers you Hobson's choice at the elections once every few years - if that's freedom for you - knock yourself out.
Chomsky is a libertarian socialist and an anarcho-syndicalist. Maybe inform yourself on the range of different kinds of anarchy. The fact you don't think he elaborates on his anarchy reflects your lack of research.
Perhaps if Psy sang and danced what Chomsky was detailing, 100 million people would watch this and we could take back society from the elite oligarchy.
