Noam Chomsky speaks to Dutch activists on various topics

Описание: Anarchism
   • Noam Chomsky on Disconnect of "Left Intell...  
Chomsky talks about the core issues for a workers' movement, and the disconnect between "Left Intellectuals" and the working class. He reviews the old tradition of working class culture and the destruction of it, and the tendency of "Left Intellectuals" to focus on "Post-Materialist issues" while ignoring fundamental problems that confront working people.

Enlightenment, Classical Liberalism, Anarchism.
   • Noam Chomsky on Enlightenment, Classical L...  
Chomsky reviews the Enlightenment tradition, classical liberalism and how anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist thought and action is connected to this tradition.

French Intellectual Culture, Post-Modernism.
   • Noam Chomsky on French Intellectual Cultur...  
Chomsky talks about the unique history of the French intellectual culture. He also airs his concerns about the influence of irrational currents of thought on Third World intellectuals, which has severe consequences (as compared to some irrational talks in a Western Literature faculty).

Nazi Collaboration and Resistance in France, Italy and Greece and the Netherlands.
   • Noam Chomsky on Nazi Collaboration in Fran...  
Chomsky reviews the Resistance/Collaboration in Western and Southern Europe, pointing out the huge differences and the consequences for the decades that followed. He also talks about how this history has been falsified by propaganda.

The Right

Freedom of Speech and Anti-Fascism
   • Noam Chomsky on Freedom of Speech and Anti...  
Chomsky discusses freedom of speech, its history, and how to deal with the rise of racist right-wing movements.

The Left, Class, Racism, Xenophobia and the Right
   • Noam Chomsky on The Left, Class, Racism, X...  
Chomsky discusses the history of Racism in the United States, and dealing with xenophobia and the right. Historically these tendencies have been overcome by "common activities ... on the basis of their class interests."

Education

Education, Student Activism, Democracy
   • Noam Chomsky on Education, Student Activis...  
Chomsky reviews the history of elite hatred for democracy, student resistance, and the functioning of the education system in our times.

Latin-America, Social Movements, Neo-Liberalism, Free Trade Agreements
   • Noam Chomsky on Latin-America, Social Move...  
Chomsky praises the developments in Latin America over the past decade, and places them in a larger context of Latin American history.

The interview was conducted in Leiden, the Netherlands, in March 2011.