At 1:41 AM 12/25/1996, Anonymous wrote that Noam Chomsky said:
More than ever, libertarian socialist ideas are relevant, and the population is very much open to them. Despite a huge mass of corporate propaganda, outside of educated circles, people still maintain pretty much their traditional attitudes. In the US, for example, more than 80% of the population regard the economic system as inherently unfair and the political system as a fraud, which serves the special interests, not the people. Overwhelming majorities think working people have too little voice in public affairs (the same is true in England), that the government has the responsibility of assisting people in need, that spending for education and health should take precedence over budget-cutting and tax cuts, that the current Republican proposals that are sailing through Congress benefit the rich and harm the general population, and so on. Intellectuals may tell a different story, but it's not all that difficult to find out the facts.
Can anybody explain in what way Chomsky is an anarchist or a libertarian? Opposition to some government schemes but not others makes a Republican or a Democrat, not an anarchist or libertarian. Chomsky is a smart man. What's he up to? Sir Galahad