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CHOMSKY ON ANARCHISM
mutually supponive. I do things ] think are imponanr, you do things you
think are imponanr, they do what they think is important, they can all be
means for achieving more or less the same ends. They can assist one another,
achievements in one domain can assist those in others. But who am I to say
what the first step is?
Do you go to the polls' Do you vote'
Sometimes. Again, it depends on whether there is a choice wonh making,
whether the effect of voting is significant enough so it is wonh the time and
effort. On local issues I almost always vote. For example, there was recently a
referendum in the town where I live that overrode ridiculous tax restrictions,
and I voted on that. I thought it is important for a town to have schools, fire
stations, libraries and so on and so forth. Usually the local elections make some
kind of difference, beyond that it is ... If this state (Massachusetts) were a swing
state, I would vote against Bush.
And what about upcoming elections?
Since it is not a swing state, there are other choices. One might have reasons
to vote for Ralph Nader, or for the Green Parry, which also runs candidates
apart from the presidency. There are a variety of possible choices,
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This interview was conducted on July 14, 2004, in Cambridge, MA,
by Ziga Vodovnik, Assistant/Young Researcher at the Department of
Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, Europe. A rough
transcript was also published on Znet (www.zmag.org)