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Re: Noam Chomsky - Anarchism and misguided Libertarians
by
Spendulus
on 01/08/2015, 12:52:10 UTC

"what’s called libertarian in the United States, which is a special U. S. phenomenon, it doesn’t really exist anywhere else — a little bit in England — permits a very high level of authority and domination but in the hands of private power:  so private power should be unleashed to do whatever it likes.  The assumption is that by some kind of magic, concentrated private power will lead to a more free and just society...

just a call for some of the worst kinds of tyranny, namely unaccountable private tyranny."

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/noam-chomsky-kind-anarchism-i-believe-and-whats-wrong-libertarians?sc=fb

Hard to put semantics to one side in terms of correct definition of libertarianism send anarchism, but above statement seems an important point. Why America's obsession with libertarianism?!

While the conservative political movement has many brilliant thinkers, the Left has only one - Noam Chomsky.  For this reason the article is worth reading.  He is rather boring, though.  Nim Chimsky I prefer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nim_Chimpsky