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his basic idea seems to be that he wishes for another 'great flood' - a la Noah.

exactly. I for one always thought this guy's writing was quite pathetic. On a planet with 5 billion inhabitants to call for an abolition of civilisation, that's just bare madness. Post-modernism gone wild if you ask ...

By accident I came across a quote by Chomsky on this:

The United States is sort of out of the world on this topic. Britain is to a limited extent, but the United States is like on Mars. So here, the term "libertarian" means the opposite of what it always meant in history. Libertarian throughout ...

Libertarian socialism sounds like an oxymoron to me.

yeah, that's another thing. "libertarianism" in the US has taken on a different meaning, referring to the extreme pro-market, pro-private-property-extending-everywhere, pro-gun crowd. not so much in europe, i think (where hardly anyone even ...

just came to this thread to post that democracy now! discussion. very, very interesting to see finkelstein (from the historic materialist corner) and tom segev (from sort of an "idealist" standpoint) going at it over the israeli motives in 1967.

that's the beauty of democracy now! -- they don't let ...

what you're looking for would be something like a general introduction to socialism. funny, never came across anything like that. i imagine that a good comprehensive introduction might be hard to find (especially one that doesn't neglect the libertarian socialist strand, which was also quite ...

i thought chomsky was a libertarian socialist who sympathises with anarcho-syndicalism?

"libertarian socialism" and "anarchism" have been used as synonymous terms over long periods (the second half of the 19th century up until after the Spanish Revolution was crushed by the fascists). It's ...

There's a recent book entitled "Chomsky on Anarchism", AK Press 2005. It contains some of Chomsky's essays and interviews on the topic: https://akpress.org/2004/items/chomskyonanarchism

thanks for that. how far into the program was that, can you tell? i would be interested to hear it in his own words..

i heard the thing about the texter calling Marx and Lenin parasites on socialism, which is of course not a good way to make a point for the libertarian socialist side here.

still ...

I was listening to Saturday's (06/02) show, and in the second half George read out two angry texts of people who were correctly pointing out that Noam Chomsky refers to himself as an Anarchist, and implying that George had said something to the contrary earlier in the program. I seem to have missed ...

now there's a familiar name -- major.tom, you've been on the CT forums almost since the beginning, right?

as for the other thing, don't worry

not sure about that .. people have been doing that on chomskytorrents from time to time, but i never liked it i must say. you might call me old-fashioned.
but i'll get in touch with you on the server-side seeding. we should be able to do that.

well I've had friday's show up there now since last night and my ratio is almost 10 on it, and yet there's only 5 seeds, so I'll not be bothering again. Martin, if you're reading this - you need to get a ratio system, I'm not providing downloads to leechers who don't give a toss about sharing. Also ...