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| Source:Akshay Pahilajani- MIT Professor Noam Chomsky talking about liberalism in 1977. |
“Noam Chomsky on Liberalism. Excerpt from a BBC interview in 1977”
I like what Professor Chomsky said early on in this video, because that’s exactly what I could base this entire piece around. This one point where he says that liberalism when it was first developed was anti-establishment (And I would add anti-centralization of power)
What Professor Chomsky is essentially talking about what’s called classical liberalism. I don’t call it classical liberalism myself, as a Liberal, but that’s what the so-called mainstream media, as well as closeted Socialists or Leftists, who don’t like those terms. So they call what used to be just known as liberalism, neoliberalism or classical liberalism.
But what has always been known as liberalism, before leftists (democratic and otherwise tried to hijack the philosophy) has been a political philosophy that’s built around advancing individual, human rights and defending liberty for all, not some, but for everybody. Not about advancing the state and the role of the state, especially the national state, believing that the more power and money that the national government has, the better off everyone will be. Which is what Socialists (democratic and otherwise) believe, not real Liberals.
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