But it's people like Chomsky's fault for preaching about sacrificing individual freedoms for collectives that prevent democracy from fulfilling it's potential since democracy depends on the competence of it's voters, the entire philosophy of socialism is highly irrational in theory and unstable in practice, it is irresponsible for anyone trying to combat poverty and oppression to not reject it from the onset.
Most people who listened to this will never support a third party or an independant, they will never help to legitimize a third party so that it can enter the mainstream, they will not lobby for a weaker government. They will vote democrat to tax the educated professional upper-middle class into the ground in the belief they are "the rich", while supporting excessive regulations and state interventionism that allows the actual plutocracy to keep their lucrative monopolies, cartels and of course their ridiculously huge net worths.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/socialism
Arbitrary communal ownership is collectivism, we are part of the material world therefore there must be instances where private ownership is more desirable due to the inefficiency and corruption of any bureaucracy needed to manage communal ownership. I say arbitrary communal ownership because there is nothing wrong with communal ownership if it is with the consent of those who pay for it.
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FWIW Chomsky does support third parties (he endorsed McKinney in 08), if people actually listened to him they wouldn't be voting Democrat
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Anonymous2010-09-21 13:25
>>6
Chomsky wouldn't know from libertarianism if Thomas Jefferson cockslapped him in his ugly hook-nosed Jew face.
Chomsky is a Maoist and has always been a Maoist, and this is blindingly obvious if you read the man's actual writing rather than his desperate attempts to claim a semi-respectable label for himself.
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Anonymous2010-09-21 21:18
>>8
Well, that's what he says, I must hypothetically assume so in order to provide a supposition with which to use in proof by contradiction.