Running notes on Noam Chomsky on Anarchism, Marxism & Hope for the Future interview

systems of control needs to justify itself or it outlives its usefulness.

(Re: Writings of Plato, Karl Popper and Orwell: Governments are meant to serve the people, any other function is tyrannous)

Anarchy is the ideal. Anarchism is the process to reach anarchy.

Controlling opinion is the way a "more free society" ensures unquestionable power. Misrepresentation is a way of controlling opinion.

Socialism has positive and negative (ie: red bureaucracy) connotations. Chomsky is trying to reclaim the word using the term "libertarian socialism".

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I posted the short story (500 words) I submitted for a contest on my website, I am proud of it. I tried to create emphasis and ambiquity and avoided conventional dialogue and I did a little research to authenticate the setting.