On Sun, 30 May 2004, Luke Weiger wrote:
> A society organized along the "basic classic liberal principles"
> Chomsky endorses (or comes close to endorsing) here would be both
> democratic and secular.
>
> ----- 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