Re: Noam Chomsky

From: Doug Thayer (d_l_thayer@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Jan 07 2003 - 23:12:14 MST


Chomsky is against Mondragon. Google for "chomsky mondragon". Something
about hierarchical management structures.

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Doug
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 10:38:01PM -0600, Damien Broderick wrote:
> 
> 
> >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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