Noam Chomsky w/ Chris Hedges May 30, 2020
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I typically enjoy Noam Chomsky and Chris Hedges - this was pretty good, of course par for the course.
I do tire of his comparisons of "wage slavery" to chattel slavery - WEB DuBois has a fantastic quote about this:
"But there was in 1863 a real meaning to slavery different from that we may apply to the laborer today. It was in part psychological, the enforced feeling of inferiority, the calling of another Master; the standing with hat in hand. It was the helplessness. It was the defenselessness of family life. It was the submergence below the arbitrary will of any sort of individual. It was without doubt worse in these vital respects than that which exists today in Europe or America. Its analogue today is the yellow, brown and Black laborer in China and India, and Africa, in the forests of the Amazon; and it was this slavery that fell in America."
I do tire of his comparisons of "wage slavery" to chattel slavery - WEB DuBois has a fantastic quote about this:
"But there was in 1863 a real meaning to slavery different from that we may apply to the laborer today. It was in part psychological, the enforced feeling of inferiority, the calling of another Master; the standing with hat in hand. It was the helplessness. It was the defenselessness of family life. It was the submergence below the arbitrary will of any sort of individual. It was without doubt worse in these vital respects than that which exists today in Europe or America. Its analogue today is the yellow, brown and Black laborer in China and India, and Africa, in the forests of the Amazon; and it was this slavery that fell in America."
Also: the worker owned enterprises in Cleveland have a network set up - so shout out to Chomsky for noting that at 21:30
