CrimethInc. Ex-Workers on Nostr: Noam Chomsky has passed away at the age of 95. We remember him at the time of his ...

Noam Chomsky has passed away at the age of 95.

We remember him at the time of his debate with Michel Foucault in 1971, passionately arguing for anarcho-syndicalism.

"If it is correct, as I believe it is, that a fundamental element of human nature is the need for creative work, for creative inquiry, for free creation without the arbitrary limiting effects of coercive institutions, then it will follow that a decent society should maximize the possibilities for this fundamental human characteristic to be realized. That means trying to overcome the elements of repression and oppression and destruction and coercion that exist in any society—ours, for example—as a historical residue. A federated, decentralized system of free associations incorporating economic as well as social institutions would be anarcho-syndicalism, and it seems to me that it is the appropriate form of social organization for an advanced technological society in which human beings do not have to be forced into the position of tools, of cogs in the machine—in which the creative urge, that I think is intrinsic to human nature, will be able to realize itself."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wfNl2L0Gf8