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Old 11-07-2007, 03:58 PM
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Default Re: Chomsky on Anarchism (sidenote; education)

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Are there property rights in the sort of anarchism that Chomsky describes?

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Nope. In fact, individual rights aren't recognized at all, and you would be just a drone in the Borg.

The closest example of the practical manifestation of Chomsky's political "philosophy" is the former Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia in the late 1970's -- which Chomsky, not surprisingly, supported.

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Individual rights are at the essence of Chosmsky's phillosophy.

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Only if you define "rights" in the collectivist, Arbeit macht frei sort of way.


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Again you are confused with the authorianism of state socialism to which Chomsky rejects.

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I'm not "confused" at all. Yes, Chomsky and his comrades package their political propaganda using a different flavor of rhetoric than that of state socialism, but it's a road which leads to the same place. It's a difference of style, not substance.

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Jesus, go away. Everyone here is well equipped at doing google searches and can realise for themselves that Chosmy did not support the Cambodian genocide- or deny it.

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I don't see how this article by Chomsky can be interpreted to be anything other than tacitly supporting the Khmer Rouge and explicitly denying the genocide.

Distortions at Fourth Hand
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