Cf. his lecture from 40 years ago, "Government in the Future" (Seven Stories Press 2005):
"I think that the libertarian socialist concepts - and by that I mean a range of thinking that extends from left-wing Marxism through anarchism - are fundamentally correct and that they are the proper and natural extension of classical liberalism into the era of advanced industrial society."
On 4/30/11 7:25 PM, Ismail Lagardien wrote:
> Apologies if this is "old news".... Always interested in what people on the two
> lists (Marxism& LBO) think about some of the things I am reading.
>
> In this article, which was written close to the end of the cold war, Noam
> Chomsky argues against the association of socialism with Bolshevism.
>
> "When the world’s two great propaganda systems agree on some doctrine, it
> requires some intellectual effort to escape its shackles. One such doctrine is
> that the society created by Lenin and Trotsky and molded further by Stalin and
> his successors has some relation to socialism in some meaningful or historically
> accurate sense of this concept. In fact, if there is a relation, it is the
> relation of contradiction."
>
> Source:
> http://liberationfrequency.tumblr.com/post/5069389451/the-soviet-union-versus-socialism-noam-chomsky
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>
>
> Ismail Lagardien
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