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Topic: john zerzan / who is chomsky? |
Martin
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Forum: Pirty's Purgatory Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 3:45 pm Subject: john zerzan / who is chomsky? |
his basic idea seems to be that he wishes for another 'great flood' - a la Noah.
exactly. I for one always thought this guy's writing was quite pathetic. On a planet with 5 billion inhabitants to ... |
Topic: George's remark on Chomsky |
Martin
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Forum: Pirty's Purgatory Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 12:22 am Subject: George's remark on Chomsky |
By accident I came across a quote by Chomsky on this:
The United States is sort of out of the world on this topic. Britain is to a limited extent, but the United States is like on Mars. So here, th ... |
Topic: George's remark on Chomsky |
Martin
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Forum: Pirty's Purgatory Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 1:42 am Subject: George's remark on Chomsky |
Libertarian socialism sounds like an oxymoron to me.
yeah, that's another thing. "libertarianism" in the US has taken on a different meaning, referring to the extreme pro-market, pro-priv ... |
Topic: Norman Finkelstein |
Martin
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Forum: Pirty's Purgatory Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 1:33 am Subject: Norman Finkelstein |
just came to this thread to post that democracy now! discussion. very, very interesting to see finkelstein (from the historic materialist corner) and tom segev (from sort of an "idealist" st ... |
Topic: George's remark on Chomsky |
Martin
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Forum: Pirty's Purgatory Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 7:52 pm Subject: George's remark on Chomsky |
what you're looking for would be something like a general introduction to socialism. funny, never came across anything like that. i imagine that a good comprehensive introduction might be hard to find ... |
Topic: George's remark on Chomsky |
Martin
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Views: 14353
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Forum: Pirty's Purgatory Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 5:34 pm Subject: George's remark on Chomsky |
i thought chomsky was a libertarian socialist who sympathises with anarcho-syndicalism?
"libertarian socialism" and "anarchism" have been used as synonymous terms over long peri ... |
Topic: George's remark on Chomsky |
Martin
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Forum: Pirty's Purgatory Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 3:05 pm Subject: George's remark on Chomsky |
There's a recent book entitled "Chomsky on Anarchism", AK Press 2005. It contains some of Chomsky's essays and interviews on the topic: http://akpress.org/2004/items/chomskyonanarchism |
Topic: George's remark on Chomsky |
Martin
Replies: 14
Views: 14353
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Forum: Pirty's Purgatory Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 12:30 am Subject: George's remark on Chomsky |
thanks for that. how far into the program was that, can you tell? i would be interested to hear it in his own words..
i heard the thing about the texter calling Marx and Lenin parasites on socialis ... |
Topic: George's remark on Chomsky |
Martin
Replies: 14
Views: 14353
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Forum: Pirty's Purgatory Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 11:59 pm Subject: George's remark on Chomsky |
I was listening to Saturday's (06/02) show, and in the second half George read out two angry texts of people who were correctly pointing out that Noam Chomsky refers to himself as an Anarchist, and im ... |
Topic: Posting the radio shows on OneBigTorrent |
Martin
Replies: 39
Views: 38643
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Forum: Pirty's Purgatory Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 1:45 am Subject: Posting the radio shows on OneBigTorrent |
now there's a familiar name -- major.tom, you've been on the CT forums almost since the beginning, right?
as for the other thing, don't worry |
Topic: Posting the radio shows on OneBigTorrent |
Martin
Replies: 39
Views: 38643
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Forum: Pirty's Purgatory Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 12:27 pm Subject: Posting the radio shows on OneBigTorrent |
not sure about that .. people have been doing that on chomskytorrents from time to time, but i never liked it i must say. you might call me old-fashioned.
but i'll get in touch with you on the serve ... |
Topic: Posting the radio shows on OneBigTorrent |
Martin
Replies: 39
Views: 38643
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Forum: Pirty's Purgatory Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 11:41 am Subject: Posting the radio shows on OneBigTorrent |
well I've had friday's show up there now since last night and my ratio is almost 10 on it, and yet there's only 5 seeds, so I'll not be bothering again. Martin, if you're reading this - you need to ge ... |
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