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For a great and concise introduction to Libertarian Socialism here is a classic Noam Chomsky lecture from 1979 called The Government of the Future, in which he
by Synaesthesia 11y ago
For a great and concise introduction to Libertarian Socialism here is a classic Noam Chomsky lecture from 1979 called The Government of the Future, in which he gives a justification for Libertarian Socialism, or Anarchism, as the natural and correct form of government for advanced industrial society from the classical liberal ideals of the enlightenment. He also compares the competing economic and social ideologies, laissez-faires capitalism, state capitalism and state socialism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLDQGdKyh7s&index=1&list=PLECDCA6E60C087344 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLDQGdKyh7s&index=1&list=PLE...
Edit: here is the text of the lecture if you'd rather read it.
https://libcom.org/library/government-future-noam-chomsky https://libcom.org/library/government-future-noam-chomsky
- PlzSnow 11y agoThanks for the link! Do you have a similar great and concise introduction to Nazism or other related extremist totalitarian ideologies?
- Synaesthesia 11y agoWell one of the best is Hannah Arendt's "The Origins of Totalitarianism". Also worth looking at the concept of inverted totalitarianism, by Sheldon Wolin.
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- pastProlog 11y agoHow is anarchism a "totalitarian" ideology? I have been reading in the press about how the NSA, the CIA, the FBI etc. want an encryption backdoor in everything Americans use, so we can be spied on at will. I don't see why this isn't totalitarian and somehow anarchism is. Anarchism means no state, whereas totalitarianism means total state control, yet you're saying no state control means more state control. It makes no sense.
- xlm1717 11y agoI don't think the intention was to link them together, just to ask for introductions to other alternative ideologies. It's not good to put words into other people's mouth. PlzSnow never said anything about less state control meaning more state control, for example.