RE: Noam Chomsky

From: Damien Broderick (thespike@earthlink.net)
Date: Tue Jan 07 2003 - 21:38:01 MST


>Worth reading.

> http://www.mises.org/fullstory.asp?control=1132
>
> Chomsky's Economics
> By James Ostrowski

*Not* worth reading, IMO. E.g.:

< Apparently, and this all very fuzzy, the means of production will somehow
be collectively owned by the workers themselves, wherein we arrive at the
silly concept of anarcho-syndicalism. Instead of greedy capitalists owning
the corporation, the workers themselves will own it. But it will not be
ownership in the form of individual shares that can be sold. That's
capitalism.
No, he favors a vague and ill-defined form of collective ownership that the
workers will figure out as they bumble and stumble along towards bankruptcy.
As Mises writes in Socialism, "as an aim, Syndicalism is so absurd, that
speaking generally, it has not found any advocates who dared to write openly
and clearly in its favor." >

Apparently he's never heard of the Basque Mondragon cooperatives. How else
could he gibe so flatulently against anarcho-syndicalism? See, e.g.:
http://burn.ucsd.edu/~mai/TEXT/mondragon.html

Damien Broderick



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