[lbo-talk] The Soviet Union Versus Socialism - Noam Chomsky

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun May 1 18:02:32 PDT 2011


On May 1, 2011, at 8:56 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:


> 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."

Classical liberalism? Really? You like this, Carl? This only confirms my worst suspicions about anarchists - they're individualists of a fundamentally conventional sort.

Doug



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