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Related: About this forumRon Paul, "Death is a tribute to our liberty." Chomsky laughs at & then DESTROYS Libertarians.
In this video clip, Noam Chomsky describes Libertarian "savagery" and their "... extreme advocate of total tyranny, power given into the hands of private UNACCOUNTABLE tyrannies, even worse than state tyrannies, because even (in state tyrannies) the public still has somekind of role."
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Ron Paul, "Death is a tribute to our liberty." Chomsky laughs at & then DESTROYS Libertarians. (Original Post)
patrice
Apr 2013
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freshwest
(53,661 posts)1. Or as he is often quoted:
The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations. ~ Noam Chomsky
Thanks for posting, patrice.
Thanks for posting, patrice.
cpwm17
(3,829 posts)2. Thank you for that
Libertarianism is a freedom destroying philosophy. Life would suck living under such a system, IF it could ever get off the ground (it can't).
Chomsky said it well.
mother earth
(6,002 posts)3. K & R nt