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Occupy the Future by Noam Chomsky
The article begins with a simple recapitulation of US history. But perhaps what's most interesting in his perspective is the novelty character of the movement:
I’ve never seen anything quite like the Occupy movement in scale and character, here and worldwide. The Occupy outposts are trying to create cooperative communities that just might be the basis for the kinds of lasting organizations necessary to overcome the barriers ahead and the backlash that’s already coming.
Also worth mentioning, Chomsky brings up two threats to the survival of the human species: nuclear weapons and environmental catastrophe.
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matt
- 6 months ago (0 replies)
Good article. Chomsky mentions an interesting difference between the current crisis and the Great Depression:
Now there’s a sense of hopelessness, sometimes despair. This is quite new in our history. During the 1930s, working people could anticipate that the jobs would come back. Today, if you’re a worker in manufacturing, with unemployment practically at Depression levels, you know that those jobs may be gone forever if current policies persist. |
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