Chomsky on Anarchism (sidenote; education)

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The question is to what degree do these property rights give us total dominion of our property, under what conditions may this be taken away, and so forth.


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This is what I dont get. If I dont have a right to my property what gives the government a right to my property? Just because people cant think of better ways to help poor people? The idea that we need a government to help the poor is one of most persistant myths we perpetuate as a society, to the detriment of the poor.

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Again, rights are simply things that society has agreed you deserve or have a claim to.

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Society doesn't get to legitimately make those decisions for you. This is just might makes right (part XXXIV).

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If you don't think the government is helpful for solving certain problems of social significance, and if you had a bunch of people who agreed, you could go without one and see how it went.

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Actually, you can't. If you tried, it would probably end up looking like this: