Noam Chomsky - Does Economic Growth Justify the System?

Chomsky on economic growth, stalinism, slavery and wage slavery.

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  • @GiantSandles
    @GiantSandles7 жыл бұрын

    The guy went home and didn't leave his room for 3 weeks after this

  • @skyguy5587

    @skyguy5587

    5 жыл бұрын

    GiantSandles Some say... He’s still there

  • @pthompson108
    @pthompson1089 жыл бұрын

    Notice how "growth" is always offered up as an indicator of social health.

  • @CrazyFanaticMan

    @CrazyFanaticMan

    8 жыл бұрын

    Yes, as you pointed out, its a very strange irony - the two couldn't be farther apart from each other

  • @HarryS77

    @HarryS77

    6 жыл бұрын

    My doctor told me I have a growth in my brain. I was thrilled. Then she explained cancer to me.

  • @jeromeschwartz3699

    @jeromeschwartz3699

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Slave2PaperWithInkOn The rich always get richer because people believe politics can solve our problems. It’s impossible for politics to solve our problems because politics can’t influence money. The reason why is because money influences politics. That’s just how our system works. If we want to have an impact on politics, then the most sensible approach would be for us to influence money directly. One way of accomplishing that is to cut off their revenue stream, like unions used to do before they had a “no strike” clause in their contracts. We the people absolutely have the capability to influence money in many, many ways ... directly. Given the fact that money influences politics, *and* our ability to influence money, we can work together to make our lives better without having to depend upon some politician to do it for us!

  • @bobjones2460

    @bobjones2460

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes, you have to understand the language. Growth means growth and wealth for the elites, not in general. Once you understand that, you'll understand why the media always equates stock market growth with benefits for all.

  • @toddmg
    @toddmg3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you young man for standing and asking your question. Hearing an answer was helpful for you and us watching.

  • @bethenawaltz4190

    @bethenawaltz4190

    2 жыл бұрын

    hear hear

  • @holeshothunter5544

    @holeshothunter5544

    10 ай бұрын

    Yeah. Learn from a fool. Wearing a suit doesn't help, either.

  • @Red-pv7kx

    @Red-pv7kx

    9 ай бұрын

    @@holeshothunter5544😂😂😂

  • @darthvadeth6290

    @darthvadeth6290

    9 ай бұрын

    Write the same thing under conservative comment sections and see what they reply 😂😂

  • @Modguw

    @Modguw

    Ай бұрын

    That man is like 70 now. 😅

  • @abbysmith1148
    @abbysmith1148 Жыл бұрын

    One of the things that I love about what Chomsky does with this initial questioner, is that despite the questioner's obvious nervousness and timidness, Chomsky immediately addresses him with the confidence and assertive delivery that he would afford for any questioner. He treats this young timid man as an equal, even though he disagrees with him. Classy.

  • @SeanOCallaghan0106
    @SeanOCallaghan01062 жыл бұрын

    This man is a fucking encyclopedia

  • @weirdo1083

    @weirdo1083

    Жыл бұрын

    A walking encyclopedia hahaaaa.

  • @blacklyfe5543

    @blacklyfe5543

    28 күн бұрын

    ​@weirdo1083 what does that mean?

  • @conors4430
    @conors44306 жыл бұрын

    Standards of living have been rising since the scientific revolution in the 16th century. The growth of economy wouldn’t be bad if the growth was actually passed on to the public, basically since the 70s that hasn’t happened.

  • @kentallard8852

    @kentallard8852

    4 жыл бұрын

    Standards of living are now declining: Life expectancy is dropping and mortality rate is rising. Especially the "deaths of despair" are sharply increasing.

  • @kentallard8852

    @kentallard8852

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Beto Rdz look it up

  • @erniereyes1994

    @erniereyes1994

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@kentallard8852 that's utterly incorrect, although your god Chomsky espouses that view so therefore it must be "true." Once you get over your bias, do some actual reading. "Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress," by Steven Pinker, might give you some hope.

  • @1997lordofdoom

    @1997lordofdoom

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@erniereyes1994 Steven Pinker, lmao the guy that wrote the book about how this is the most peaceful time in history and that we have the least amount of violence and was instantly debunked by anthropologists. Go read actual intellectuals like Chomsky not jokes like Pinker that have many times been humiliated by guys like Chomsky. Actually I don't think guys like you have the mental capacity to actually read Chomsky so here is a clip of Chomsky dunking on Pinker, it might give you some hope and maybe you get over your bias. kzread.info/dash/bejne/paaGyLKfdMi4YqQ.html&ab_channel=Chomsky%27sPhilosophy

  • @1997lordofdoom

    @1997lordofdoom

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@erniereyes1994 You owned yourself the moment you mentioned Steven Pinker

  • @seedyoda5714
    @seedyoda57147 жыл бұрын

    Savage.

  • @jamiehartman3350

    @jamiehartman3350

    6 жыл бұрын

    Are you really a Anarchist Platonist? :D omg I'm not alone please be true!

  • @americanmisfit1
    @americanmisfit1 Жыл бұрын

    I think it's important not to bash the person for asking the question. As Chomsky often points out, many people don't understand the actual situation because their consent is manufactured. I don't know what this man does, but I'm sure he's no thought leader. In any case, his courage to ask the question is why we have a good answer-- he was obviously nervous to ask it anyway.

  • @pappapaps

    @pappapaps

    Жыл бұрын

    That's a good point.

  • @afgor1088

    @afgor1088

    Жыл бұрын

    he's not bashing the person asking the question, he's just not treating him like a child who needs to be mollycoddled and have their ego protected far worse than giving someone a direct answer that might embarrass them is protecting their feelings but leaving them as uninformed as when they asked it

  • @holeshothunter5544

    @holeshothunter5544

    10 ай бұрын

    What YOU think is unimportant, and wrong. Let him speak, then BASH Hard.

  • @darthvadeth6290

    @darthvadeth6290

    9 ай бұрын

    Funny, I never see comments like these under conservative channel comment sections 😂😂😂

  • @americanmisfit1

    @americanmisfit1

    9 ай бұрын

    @@darthvadeth6290 I’m practicing impulse control lol

  • @BuGGyBoBerl
    @BuGGyBoBerl3 жыл бұрын

    whats going on with these comments? really disturbing. this isnt a soccer game where you trash your opponent and shittalk him. this is just a guy with less experience asking a question/delivering an argument and gets his argument dismantled. nothing bad about that. leave that guy alone. this is just toxic. how do you expect to learn when you shittalk people who try to learn?

  • @marianoz2301

    @marianoz2301

    2 жыл бұрын

    It’s the internet people are going to be toxic.

  • @hazymorning1823

    @hazymorning1823

    Жыл бұрын

    @@marianoz2301 doesn't mean we should tolerate it

  • @zeldaman211
    @zeldaman2118 жыл бұрын

    Man......shut down.

  • @ChrisXarke2286
    @ChrisXarke22867 жыл бұрын

    damn... he crushed it

  • @spaghettiking7312
    @spaghettiking73128 күн бұрын

    These few minutes blow up so many political arguments, it's insane.

  • @ChiRedWhiteBlue
    @ChiRedWhiteBlue2 жыл бұрын

    This man is so brilliant. Love listening to him

  • @1844Freddy
    @1844Freddy6 жыл бұрын

    Peak Chomsky

  • @davidnflowers
    @davidnflowers5 жыл бұрын

    Brutal! Anyone know if there's more video from this conference online?

  • @Snoopies622

    @Snoopies622

    5 жыл бұрын

    I saw the whole thing on C-Span back in 1996. To tell you the truth, as I remember it, it was a pretty dry, dull talk and this was the very last question asked at the end, and it was the only thing worth remembering. Still a great exchange.

  • @omarmahfouz5599

    @omarmahfouz5599

    10 ай бұрын

    kzread.info/dash/bejne/m4qIssulgdKuiKQ.html

  • @libertine999
    @libertine9999 жыл бұрын

    Best part is when he climbs back into the grave he made for himself with his half baked argument.

  • @eddievangundy4510

    @eddievangundy4510

    Жыл бұрын

    That's not a half-baked argument. It's a good argument. Chomsky trying to use Soviet Russia as a counter example is what is the stretch here. Now if Chomsky wants to talk about Deng's China he might have a point. Of course all of Asia has grown enormously- almost all of it under state capitalism.

  • @MrBetweenbars
    @MrBetweenbars5 жыл бұрын

    Hey, I think I'll stand up and try to debate the smartest man in the world with a half-baked proposition. What could possibly go wrong?

  • @michaelsmith8665

    @michaelsmith8665

    3 жыл бұрын

    It's amazing how many commenters there are who can barely write a sensible paragraph denounce Chomsky, the author of 128 books (by recent count) widely noted for their logical coherence and abundant factual substantiation.

  • @innis17

    @innis17

    2 жыл бұрын

    Well it was a genuine idea he had. I actually commend him for defending his point of view even if i disagree with him.

  • @nielsw.8587

    @nielsw.8587

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@innis17 Exactly, people here are very rude and arrogant. Chomsky never makes fun of people for making bad arguments, he explains why he thinks they are wrong. Coming up with these ideas and asking questions is the way to get a better understanding of the world.

  • @avi.12345

    @avi.12345

    2 жыл бұрын

    As much as I admire Chomsky, its painful to see credulous people like you who blindly support him and are devoid of judgment. Isn't it good that there is an argument taking place?

  • @CIARUNSITE

    @CIARUNSITE

    2 жыл бұрын

    What could go right? Maybe he thought about the response to his question and has now at least moderately altered his viewpoint. He is likely a college student. That's the point of college. You work through different viewpoints and change them many times. It takes far more than 20-25 years to arrive at real conclusions if you're honestly trying to examine them.

  • @excitedaboutlearning1639
    @excitedaboutlearning16394 жыл бұрын

    I'll use that argument next time I hear economic growth as an argument against my point of view.

  • @pappapaps
    @pappapaps Жыл бұрын

    What are the documentary records that he is talking about? Can someone explain. And does anyone know where to find Fitz Hughes arguments?

  • @afgor1088

    @afgor1088

    Жыл бұрын

    you can look fitz up and read his work as pdfs online and the documentary records he's talking about are largely declassified government documents, especially CIA which show the US was incredibly scared of the USSR's superior growth which is why they attacked it

  • @spencerjames9417
    @spencerjames94175 жыл бұрын

    Idk what we'll do when this man is gone

  • @jeromeschwartz3699

    @jeromeschwartz3699

    3 жыл бұрын

    I’ll take over. I intend to accomplish more than he did. I don’t mean to say that he did poorly, I only mean that I’m going to pick up where he leaves off. He’ll certainly be missed. Noam Chomsky is quite possibly the most brilliant human being who ever lived. (except for Jesus Christ of course ... but that goes without saying ...)

  • @michaelsmith8665

    @michaelsmith8665

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@jeromeschwartz3699 Good luck . . . a recent count puts Chomsky's published book total at 128.

  • @jeromeschwartz3699

    @jeromeschwartz3699

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@michaelsmith8665 well, I didn’t say I’d fill his shoes. I’ll take the reins though. I’ll bet I can talk the talk better than he did. God bless him but, he’s too nice. I’m not shy. I’m not even remotely afraid to identify who the problem is, or what we need to do to manage them.

  • @pappapaps

    @pappapaps

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@jeromeschwartz3699 "I intend to accomplish more than he did." - he wrote 128 books. " well, I didn’t say I’d fill his shoes." XD

  • @jeromeschwartz3699

    @jeromeschwartz3699

    Жыл бұрын

    @@pappapaps "accomplish" more. XD

  • @LouSassle2999
    @LouSassle29993 ай бұрын

    They talked about it then, we’re seeing it now.

  • @guskalo1981
    @guskalo19815 жыл бұрын

    Charlie Kirk's dad.

  • @lukethomeret-duran5273

    @lukethomeret-duran5273

    2 жыл бұрын

    If Charlie Kirk ever got the chance to debate Chomsky he would run for his life and make shitty excuse about being busy. Chomsky, unlike conservative thinkers, is an intellectual.

  • @rjill7000
    @rjill7000 Жыл бұрын

    The question is: who benefits from growth?

  • @doccarter5283
    @doccarter52836 жыл бұрын

    I wonder if the questioner listened....

  • @silentkiller4091
    @silentkiller40919 ай бұрын

    So whats the solution accoring to chomsky?

  • @dannysyl2477
    @dannysyl24777 ай бұрын

    Why are people attacked for asking questions? Asking questions, even if they aren't the most thought out still leads to stimulating conversation, with the above example. We all learn from something. This attack/aggression reaction that people have is very unhealthy, it may be a product of conditioning within our society.

  • @garrethoien6666
    @garrethoien666624 күн бұрын

    Well, Noam has a unique view....Thomas Sowell explains it best

  • @FirstLast-ms4yl
    @FirstLast-ms4yl Жыл бұрын

    4:25 LMFAO kid said "fuck this"

  • @lapums
    @lapums Жыл бұрын

    I sometimes wonder what happened to this young man after this video. Where is he now? What does he do for work? Is he now advocating for seizing the means of production?

  • @Red-pv7kx

    @Red-pv7kx

    9 ай бұрын

    The world may never know!

  • @nohbuddy1
    @nohbuddy14 жыл бұрын

    I like how he dismantles both capitalist and left Tankie arguments at the same time

  • @naveed210

    @naveed210

    3 жыл бұрын

    Left tankie?

  • @michaelmcgovern3434

    @michaelmcgovern3434

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@naveed210 tankie is a term generally used to describe people who romanticize the "communism" that existed in the soviet union, despite how it was imperialistic and interventionist. So people who want to send in tanks in the name of "communism"

  • @michaelsmith8665

    @michaelsmith8665

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@michaelmcgovern3434 Hard to call the USSR imperialist, since imperialism grows out of private monopoly. But yes, there's plenty to criticize in the former USSR, as in any system of power.

  • @paintedhorse6880

    @paintedhorse6880

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@michaelsmith8665 The government is a monopoly. A monopoly on violence. Imperialism doesnt have to be private though.

  • @nickkemp4979

    @nickkemp4979

    Жыл бұрын

    "Anyone I disagree with is a Tankie." Literally anytime that people have used that word has always been a slur they hurl out of desperation because they can't back up their arguments. Also, most prominently used in regards to discussions about Russia.

  • @redgekagaoan9462
    @redgekagaoan94626 жыл бұрын

    goodbye

  • @bobbie3713
    @bobbie37132 жыл бұрын

    For anyone wondering the date is 1997

  • @AfroMedic

    @AfroMedic

    2 жыл бұрын

    I was born in that year and still, I got trapped in this stupid American wage-slavery nation.

  • @matthewkopp2391

    @matthewkopp2391

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you, I tried to look it up.

  • @guskalo1981
    @guskalo19813 жыл бұрын

    Charlie Kirk's dad got owned.

  • @SquantoShinyShorts
    @SquantoShinyShorts2 жыл бұрын

    The guy politely asked a very fair question, not that I agree with him

  • @jeromeschwartz3699
    @jeromeschwartz36994 жыл бұрын

    Given: a.) 1 prize b.) 4 runners Guaranteed 3 people will lose. If three of the four people are guaranteed to lose, then how do all 4 of them have a chance to win?

  • @edwardjones2202

    @edwardjones2202

    3 жыл бұрын

    Huh?

  • @jeromeschwartz3699

    @jeromeschwartz3699

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@edwardjones2202 I meant to say, " ... have *a* chance to win?" Sorry, I don't always form sentences properly. What can I say?

  • @martinpospisil3747

    @martinpospisil3747

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@jeromeschwartz3699 Its the idea of one day you can make it too that keeps capitalism alive. Im surrounded by these people who believe one day they will be rich and I know for a fact that thats impossible.

  • @jeromeschwartz3699

    @jeromeschwartz3699

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@martinpospisil3747 Imagine I’m offered three options; A, B and C. I choose A, but I don’t receive A. Was A an option?

  • @jemandoondame2581

    @jemandoondame2581

    2 жыл бұрын

    If you want to make a point, you don't really need to ask us a question. I am not even sure how this is supposed to relate to the video.

  • @thethird1967
    @thethird1967 Жыл бұрын

    I know one man that probably won’t debate him….Thomas Sowell.

  • @kforest2745
    @kforest27459 ай бұрын

    There’s no such thing as rich they’re poor

  • @jesusisking452
    @jesusisking452 Жыл бұрын

    All of those points are in fact arguments for those systems. Saying they aren't arguments for those systems is to stare evidence in the face and reject it. The slave owners, the commissars, the Gestapo the old Republican Party and you are not going to give as much personal freedom as an individually, not collectively, economically empowering system like post civil rights highly market driven Capitalism. Also, expanding into space would be almost impossible in anarchist society as large worker's alliances are very unlikely to exist in great enough scale to be effective at large projects or even simpler ones like an effective, modern healthcare system because of protectionist arrangements since there is no profit to be made from hard, long work hours and global trade networks that make everything cheaper. The fact that no other system plans for indefinite growth which is not impossible on a "finite world" since it can colonize and extract resources from everywhere between the lower beginning of the Earth's crust and the entirety of space is Capitalism, and therefore it is the best system available, though arguably with the addition of social programs.

  • @nespith
    @nespith5 жыл бұрын

    I've never liked that rent a car analogy. What if my car is a piece of shit that I treat like shit specifically because I don't care about it while a rental I treat well because I don't want to be fined. (this is has nothing to do with chomskys arguments, I just don't like that analogy.)

  • @markus4698

    @markus4698

    5 жыл бұрын

    I think the point of the analogy isn't that it's actually true, the point is how cleverly it was used to justify oppression.

  • @michaelsmith8665

    @michaelsmith8665

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@markus4698 Both. Industrial workers were routinely worked to death in their teens and early twenties.

  • @MrNewberryL

    @MrNewberryL

    2 жыл бұрын

    I guess in 19th C industry there weren’t any “fines”, so to speak?

  • @flippydaflip5310

    @flippydaflip5310

    Жыл бұрын

    It's a perfectly fine analogy even in the case you posit. You own the car - therefore you get to treat it like garbage because you have a piece of paper that says you can. Owning a car and owning a human is the same damn thing under chattel slavery.

  • @MrDanielfff777
    @MrDanielfff7773 жыл бұрын

    What about speed growth? Capitalism pretty fast

  • @1997lordofdoom

    @1997lordofdoom

    2 жыл бұрын

    What speed growth, Capitalism needed 300 years, the USSR did it in one generation, Chomsky explains why both of these systems are crap.

  • @MrDanielfff777

    @MrDanielfff777

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@1997lordofdoomit did what in one generation?

  • @kyleanderson8511

    @kyleanderson8511

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@MrDanielfff777 Russia went from one of the poorest countries in Europe to having a huge economy and being the second most powerful country in the world in a generation.

  • @MrDanielfff777

    @MrDanielfff777

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@kyleanderson8511 then why did it collapse

  • @kyleanderson8511

    @kyleanderson8511

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@MrDanielfff777 I think we’re missing the point here. The point isn’t sustainability. The point is that you wouldn’t use the growth argument in favor of communism so you shouldn’t use it for capitalism.

  • @mathias4851
    @mathias4851 Жыл бұрын

    Boss Chomsky

  • @c.galindo9639
    @c.galindo96399 ай бұрын

    Reasonable argument but not really one to disprove what he was arguing against. What really matters is the implementation of things and how people abide by them. Capitalism, socialism, communism, democracy and whatever else all can have “good” in them or what is to be deemed as good but as far as an overall collective system in reality. Capitalism has proven to thrive better for people than other implementations of government systems. A main superior reason is that it was founded to have great success in the US which is a Constitutional Republic and the US government system has a large array of different governmental system implementations. The greatest success for it was really because of capitalism helping people to thrive with greater success and to create a free market for people to grow on. Now his argument against certain societal norms or issues in certain areas or points in time really is being disingenuous on a large scale and really isn’t a valid argument to try and disprove a form of government, especially when he just put out points to try and disprove an idea rather than have a reasonable counter to better clarify why what he wants to disprove isn’t such a grand idea

  • @torontolarrivee7965
    @torontolarrivee7965 Жыл бұрын

    This is clearly a bad argument. Chomsky is correct that an economic system founded on *slavery* cannot be justified by economic growth. From this it does not follow that economic growth bears *no weight* in our choice of economic system. Suppose we're choosing between a mixed economy like Sweden's and an Anarcho-Syndicalist economy of the sort Chomsky advocates. Suppose further that we have good reason to believe that Chomsky's Anarcho-Syndicalist economy will be half as productive. Obviously we must take this difference in productivity into account. To say 'productivity can't justify slavery, therefore we shouldn't care about it,' is like saying, 'Aspirin won't cure cancer, therefore we shouldn't care about it.'

  • @harshkumar2473

    @harshkumar2473

    Жыл бұрын

    Productivity is not the basic fundamental premise in his arguements ..... I think it's about a just hierarchy without tyranny.... In which all people who are involved in the production owns the means and have a say in it.... For example look at mondragon.... Not a perfect system ... But workers are happy because they own it... they have a democratic say in the decisions .. and the difference between the income of a worker and a ceo is just 300%... and the profit goes directly into the pockets of workers and there are colleges, schools in which there children go owned by the cooperative... obviously there are conflicts and sometimes conflicts needs to be suppressed ... But people gets room and education to think critically whether the decision is actually for the betterment or not... And decide accordingly

  • @torontolarrivee7965

    @torontolarrivee7965

    Жыл бұрын

    @@harshkumar2473 I'm aware that 'productivity is not the basic premise' of Chomsky's anarcho-syndicalism. But it is the premise of the question he's being asked. Suppose someone asks, "Shouldn't we be concerned about the potential productivity losses that result from a shift from (say) Swedish style mixed economy to an anarchy-syndacalist economy". Your answer should address that choice. If you replace the question (as NC does here) with, "Shouldn't we be concerned about the potential productivity losses that result from a shift from *a slave economy* to an anarchy-syndacalist economy", you're not proving anything vis-a-vis the original question.

  • @harshkumar2473

    @harshkumar2473

    Жыл бұрын

    @@torontolarrivee7965 the productivity won't decrease... Because it's not like market will be vanquished.....anarcho syndicalism is about democratic factories and corporates and companies owned by worker councils... The only reason why the productivity could decrease is if a tyrant is there on the picture .... And I think mondragon is a good example of what anarcho syndicalism will look like .. that's why I gave you the example and the productivity is as great as it is in any private corporation

  • @torontolarrivee7965

    @torontolarrivee7965

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@harshkumar2473 I don't think this is a good argument but more importantly it's not the argument Chomsky is making. To the person worried about productivity losses under anarcho syndicalism, he is not saying ' the mondragon experiment shows that a-s can be productive.' He's saying instead, "Why are you asking about productivity? Would you tolerate a *slave* economy, if that were efficient?" I understand why you're trying to change the subject. It's a ridiculous argument he's offering.

  • @harshkumar2473

    @harshkumar2473

    Жыл бұрын

    @@torontolarrivee7965 i think what the dude's arguement is that the poor people has been also uplifted and there is a increase in the standard of living of people under capitalism..... What chomsky is saying is that if the increase in the standard of living of people is the sole basis of the defense of capitalism... Then in that case why not also defend stalinism and feudalism and slavery.... Because definitely there has been increas in the standard of living of people with time in those system...... Now comes the productivity and efficiency ...... The whole arguement of capitalism is based on that it is more productive and efficient then all the system tried in human history... And the dude is also in favour of that arguement.... What chomsky is saying is that by no means productivity and efficiency can be the sole purpose of s system and a system which achieves that by any means should be upheld.. .......

  • @johnathanvale8634
    @johnathanvale86343 жыл бұрын

    Id love to go to a debate stage with noam chomsky. His economics is so FUCKING ABSURD

  • @flippydaflip5310

    @flippydaflip5310

    Жыл бұрын

    No. You wouldn't.

  • @johnathanvale8634

    @johnathanvale8634

    Жыл бұрын

    @@flippydaflip5310 why do you think that?

  • @flippydaflip5310

    @flippydaflip5310

    Жыл бұрын

    @@johnathanvale8634 Because you'd be about as sucessful as all the others who tried that.

  • @johnathanvale8634

    @johnathanvale8634

    Жыл бұрын

    @@flippydaflip5310 funny, given that despite his apparent success in the realm of debate, he hasn't got a spec of logic or reasoning which can hold a candle to both 1. The evidence given forth to the contrary 2. The logic and reasoning of the Austrian school of economics The fact that he believes he can even pretend to be qualified to speak on topics like economics and politics, of which he isn't even educated in, baffles me

  • @flippydaflip5310

    @flippydaflip5310

    Жыл бұрын

    @@johnathanvale8634 That's a pretty convoluted way of demonstrating that your (alleged) smarts only exist as fantasy inside your own head. If you were smarter, you'd have found a less convoluted way - but I guess that's neither here nor there, is it? Good for you that you never challenged Chomsky in public - I don't think you'd deal with humiliation all that well.

  • @avernvrey7422
    @avernvrey74225 жыл бұрын

    It IS an argument for slavery, fascism, etc. "It's the economy, stupid." Bread and Circuses. The demos doesn't want to be free and poor.

  • @matthewkopp2391

    @matthewkopp2391

    2 жыл бұрын

    Your assuming that Chomsky’s position would make the less poor, I so no reason why that would be the case, I see the opposite being the case. Citizens can be both more free and more prosperous by abandoning the corporate system.

  • @ashwaqahmed9656
    @ashwaqahmed96562 жыл бұрын

    This the role Noam plays. All these wars, refugees, climate change, high suicide and depression rates, racism, pretty much each region their societies are crashed due to their role in this large money making. And he is here justifying it himself the one he criticized. This the role of Noam Chomsky’s a gate keeper.

  • @pappapaps

    @pappapaps

    Жыл бұрын

    How is he justifying it?

  • @jeromeschwartz3699
    @jeromeschwartz36993 жыл бұрын

    Did he not just hear what that man said? He said, “Your arguments are terrible!” aka: “Sit down, shut your mouth, and attempt to suppress your bias for, oh I don’t know, a nanosecond or two so you might actually learn something instead of assuming I’m always wrong and you’re always right!”

  • @dangeroso121
    @dangeroso1219 ай бұрын

    Comparing slavery to capitalism is a ridiculous false comparison. Slavery is forced compulsion into an oppressive system. The irony is that socialism is a better comparison to slavery. You can live as socialist in a capitalist society. You can't live as a capitalist in a socialist society.

  • @realistblue-_-136

    @realistblue-_-136

    9 ай бұрын

    And what exactly are you referring to the user cuz you would be correct my friend they weren’t Marxist in a truly free socialist society you could think whatever you want Stalin was a bag of dicks and Lenin eventually sided with him the early ideals were there but when your under constant threat by western ideology your government ups the propaganda leading to an ultimatum between these ideas of capitalism and socialism all a big shit show

  • @realistblue-_-136

    @realistblue-_-136

    9 ай бұрын

    *use not user mb

  • @realistblue-_-136

    @realistblue-_-136

    9 ай бұрын

    Ussr Jesus even KZread doesn’t even want me to type it lol

  • @epicphailure88

    @epicphailure88

    6 ай бұрын

    A socialist in a capitalist society is a worker. A capitalist in a socialist society is a worker. The majority of people aren't capitalists. If anything the argument for capitalism is that it was a system that had eliminated the aristocracy. Now the aristocracy has returned and eventually people will be forced back into slavery. Corporations are buying up homes and turning them into rental units. Tech companies pretty much have data on everyone etc.

  • @clipkut4979

    @clipkut4979

    4 ай бұрын

    The hell are you talking about? Capitalist societies like 1930s Germany killed communists. And yes you can live as a socialist in a capitalist country, in the sense that you can hold onto that belief but you're not allowed to implement it, and you're forced to follow the capitalist way either anyway or starve. In the same way, a capitalist would be forced to follow socialism in a socialist society.

  • @gatopardoantico5657
    @gatopardoantico56579 ай бұрын

    Once again, Chomsky compares and contrasts wage labour under Capitalism with supposedly humane slavery. His argument about 'humane relations between slaves and slave-owners' is pathetic to say the least. Furthermore, comparing 19th century growth rates is unconvincing, as per head growth was much lower than even nowadays.

  • @eddievangundy4510
    @eddievangundy4510 Жыл бұрын

    Chomsky seems to be reaching here. Economic growth in the Soviet Union was slow and accompanied by famines and so forth.

  • @dempseyf_5118

    @dempseyf_5118

    11 ай бұрын

    ?

  • @Hradbro

    @Hradbro

    11 ай бұрын

    they industralized from a peasant society into an industrial one with all of its perks in ONE generation

  • @idonnow2

    @idonnow2

    9 ай бұрын

    it wasn't slow it's one of the fastest industrializations in modern history, and the fact that it was accompanied by famines IS THE POINT, that tankies use the "fast industrialization" argument in the same way that the guy asking is using the "economic growth" argument

  • @hotsteamypudding
    @hotsteamypudding6 жыл бұрын

    I dont think thats a good argument to be honest, the guy asking the question was asking about modern US capitalism, not Stalinism or Slavery or Nazism. Those systems killed millions of people and literally enslaved them which is peoples modern problem with those systems (no one says "those damn nazis and their economic growth"), within modern US society can you say the same?

  • @chaygamin2549

    @chaygamin2549

    6 жыл бұрын

    As was pointed out in another comment, you definitely can say the same for capitalism. Its a good argument because Chomsky gets at the underlying logic of what the speaker is proposing. He’s suggesting that good results mean the system is good, so Chomsky offers examples where this is not true. Not any different from disproving a theorem.

  • @LeventeCzelnai

    @LeventeCzelnai

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@mateusz-1398 It is more about maintaining their hegemony in military and economic sense as u said, but it is not the privilege of the capitalist systems. If u look at history, this is more like the logic of empires, this is how they operate, they try to oppress other nations. Of course, it does not mean that corporations did not have any role on all of these military activities for oil for instance in Iraq to gain profit, but it is not the whole picture I m sure about that.

  • @sichambers9011

    @sichambers9011

    4 жыл бұрын

    You've missed the point. Chomsky is making exactly your point about Stalinism. Then asking if an increased standard living under those systems justifies them. His point is, it doesn't.

  • @michaelsmith8665

    @michaelsmith8665

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@michaeld8555 It's not a rant. It's a sensible argument. Living standards are irrelevant unless they are rising because of a commitment to the well-being of the general population.

  • @kyleanderson8511

    @kyleanderson8511

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@michaeld8555 Standard of living is, I believe, at least a factor to consider, but it doesn’t serve as a justification for a system of domination and subjugation. Like he said, does that mean a slave should be grateful he’s living til he’s 70 in 1850 instead of just living to 50 in 1750? I don’t think a slave would accept that argument.

  • @Bolognabeef
    @Bolognabeef Жыл бұрын

    What a stupid analogy that of slavery. Not only it doesn't make sense because they weren't an economic system but were part of one, and because he ignored that in the north there was fully fledged capitalism and it was much richer and equal than any other society on earth at the time; but it's also disrespectful because it implies that the suffering an AVERAGE American suffers today (not being able to find their dream job, having to pay relatively high mortgages and insurances) is anywhere near the suffering that slaves experienced.

  • @MrBeen992
    @MrBeen99211 ай бұрын

    student became a slave after this cause "he was better off" than renting himself

  • @clipkut4979

    @clipkut4979

    4 ай бұрын

    Same here. I work remotely as self-employed, but there are no laws in place to guarantee wages or fair working conditions for international self-employed contractors, it's literally the 1800s all over again. So I'm better off renting myself to a local slave owner because I would be under a Union contract and protection from being undercut by global remote slaves that can work for 1$ per hour.