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CHOMSKY ON ANARCHISM 16 For references here and below, where not otherwise cited, see my Turning the Tide (Bosron: South End, 1985); Necessary /llusiom (Sourh End Press, 1989). For Lansing and Wilson, Lloyd Gardner, Safe for Democracy (Oxford Uiversity Press, 1987), pp. 157, 161,261, 242. 17 Wa ll Street journal, December 13, 1973. 1 8 For fu rther discussion and references, see Necessary Illusions, appendix V, section 8. 19 Levy, op. cit. , pp. 178-9, 297, 337ff.; Levy, jeffirson and Civil Liberties: the Darker Side (Harvard University Press, 1963; Ivan Dee, 1989, pp. 25(). 2 0 Cited by Levy, Ibid. , 45. 21 See Christopher Frew, "Craven evasion on the threat to freedom," Scotsman, Aug. 3, 1989, referring to the shameful behavior of Paul Johnson and Hugh Trevor Roper-who were, unfortunately, far from aJone. Rushdie was charged with seditious libel and blasphemy in the courtS, bur the High COUrt ruled that the law of blasphemy extended only to Christianity, not Islam, and that only verbal attack "against Her Majesty or Her Majesty's Government or some Nher institution of the state" counts as seditious libel (New York Times, April 10, 1990). Thus the Court upheld the basic doctrines of the Ayatollah Khomeini, Stalin, Goebbels, and other opponents of freedom, while recognizing that English law, like that of its counterparts, protects only domestic power hom criticism. 22 Quoted in British jo urnalism Review, Vol. 1, No. 2, Winter 1990. 23 levy, Emergence, pp. xvii, 6, 9, 102; Harry Kalven, A Worthy Tradition (Harper & Row, 1988), pp. 63, 227f., 121f. 177 24 Cited by Herbert Schiller, The Corporate Takeover of Public Expression (Oxford University Press, 1989). 25 McCann, An American Company (Crown, 1976), p. 45. On the ludicrous perfo rmance of the media, see also my Tu rning the Tide (South End, 1985), pp. 164f. See also William Preston and Ellen Ray, "Disinformation and mass deception: democracy as a cover story," in Richard O. Curry, ed., Freedom at Risk (Temple University Press, 1988). 26 Clinton Rossiter & James Lare, Th e Es sential Lippman: a Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy (Vintage, 1965). 27 Cited from secret documents by RR.A. Marlin, "Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion," Imernational}ournalof Moral and Social Studies, Spring 1989. For more on these maners, see my "Imellecmals and the State," Huizinga lecture, Leiden, December 1977; reprinted in my Towards a New Cold war (Pantheon, 1982). 28 For some details, see my article "Democracy in the Industrial Societies," Z Magazine, January 1989, and sources cited. 29 Pastor, Condemned to Repetition (Princeton University Press, 1987, p. 32), his emphasis.
SEVEN ANARCHISM , MARXISM AND HOPE FOR THE FUTUR (1995) First off. Noam, for quite a time now you've been an advocate for the anarchist idea. Many people are fomiliar with the introduction you wrote in 1970 to Daniel Guerin's Anarchism. but more recently, for instance in the film Manufacturing Consent, you took the opportunity to highlight again the potential of anarchism and the anarchist idea. What is it that attracts you to anarchism? H8 ANARCHISM: PLACING THE BURDEN OF PROOF ON AUTHORITY I was ;mr;ac.rci ro ;marc.hism as a yOLlng rf:nagr, as soon as I heg.m ro rhink about the world beyond a pretty narrow range, and haven't seen much reason to revise those early attitudes since. I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of aurhority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom. That includes political power, ownership and managemenr, relations among men and women, parents and children, our comrol over the fate of furure generations (the basic moral imperarive behind rhe environmenral movement, in my view), and much else. Narurally this means a challenge to the huge institutions of coercion and control: rhe srare, rhe unaccountable private tyrannies thar control most of the domestic and international economy, and so on. Bur nor only these. That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction rhat the burden of proof has to be placed on authority, and that it should be dismantled if that burden cannot be met. Sometimes the burden can be mer. If I'm taking a walk with my grandchildren and they dart our into a busy street, I will use not only authority but also physical coercion to stop them. The act should be challenged, but I think it can readily meet the challenge. And there are other cases; life is a complex affair, we understand very litde about humans and society, and grand pronouncements are generally more a source of harm than of benefit. Bur the perspective is a valid one, I think, and can lead us quire a long way.
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