Noam Chomsky on US Libertarian Party

Making Sense in the midst of Confusion

Attila, I clicked on the link, and found that it did not work. Copying your title, and pasting it into the Search Box @ YouTube, one gets this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbL3zRgZUBo

This spiel is a short clip of Chomsky's Answers to two Questions - the first being "How can he [Chomsky] call himself a "Libertarian-Socialist" - Isn't that a contradiction in terms?" As it is, Noam Chomsky is not slashing and burning the Libertarian Party, per se, or "libertarians" either; he is merely re-iterating his oft-repeated refrain that in this culture - in the United States - Words have lost their original meaning; and that the word "Libertarian" and the word "Conservative" have come to mean the direct opposite of what they formerly meant everywhere else in the world - and what they meant historically. He is correct, on this point.

In my opinion, All of the current political formations have been assembled / created in order to corral and isolate people and keep them hog-tied and separate, in accord with the famous Roman dictat & principle, Divide and Rule. On the other hand, most political groupings have their strong points, on which they are - partly - Correct. Libertarians, in my opinion are quite correct when it comes to the "Rights" of the Individual - and that the State does not have the "Right" to run over people. As Jefferson wrote, "Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed."

Where the Libs go astray is when they conflate the rights of Corporations with the rights of Individuals. Are Corporations People? The answer is an emphatic No. Also, in my humble opinion, the Vienna - or Austrian School of Economics, to which the Libertarian Party religiously adheres, is another ground of error.

It is curious to note that Noam Chomsky himself, and the late Murray Rothbard, were among the Ideological founders of the Libertarian Party; the Idea of which was first broached in 1969 at a forum put on by the mother ship of the New Left, the Institute for Policy Studies. The forum was entitled "Left - Right" and was led by Marcus Raskin and Murray Rothbard, with a panel that included several associates of William F. Buckley who had gone over to the I.P.S. - Karl Hess (a former speechwriter for Barry Goldwater,) Leonard Liggio, and William Rose.

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Here also, is an interesting Critique of Noam Chomsky himself, by Barry Zwicker, a former associate and fan of Noam Chomsky, who came to Santa Rosa with the Traveling Canadian 9/11 Road Show, and played at the Odd Fellows Hall on Pacific Avenue, in 2005...

The Shame of Noam Chomsky & left gatekeepers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhrZ57XxYJU