[lbo-talk] Chomsky again calls for two-state solution

Luke Weiger lweiger at umich.edu
Sun May 30 11:08:35 PDT 2004


A society organized along the "basic classic liberal principles" Chomsky endorses (or comes close to endorsing) here would be both democratic and secular.

-- Luke

----- Original Message ----- From: "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at alexia.lis.uiuc.edu>


> Chomsky's always thought better arrangements for complex societies need
> not await "a distant future populated by a new sort of man," e.g.,
>
> "...if you take the basic classic liberal principles and apply them to the
> modern period, I think you actually come pretty close to the principles
> that animated revolutionary Barcelona in the late 1930s -- to what's
> called 'anarcho-syndicalism.' I think that's about as high a level as
> humans have yet achieved in trying to realize these libertarian
> principles, which in my view are the right ones..." [Understanding Power,
> p. 222]. --CGE



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