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Chomsky on Anarchism
May 23, 2008 06:10 PM
Projectile 2008 opens with a question and answer session guaranteed to inspire and energise for you a weekend of rabble-rousing and intellectual debate. Noam Chomsky is professor of modern languages and linguistics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his work in linguistics is recognised as internationally significant. He is also a self-professed libertarian socialist and outspoken opponent of capitalism.
At Projectile 2008 Noam Chomsky will be appearing via a live webcast for a question and answer session.
Since the 1960s, Chomsky has been known for his political activism in support of left-wing causes and opposition to American interventions especially in Latin America and Iraq. Of anarchism he says, “The tendencies in anarchism that I've always found most persuasive seek a highly organised society, integrating many different kinds of structures (workplace, community, and manifold other forms of voluntary association), but controlled by participants, not by those in a position to give orders.”
“I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, 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 management, relations among men and women, parents and children, our control over the fate of future generations (the basic moral imperative behind the environmental movement, in my view), and much else. Naturally this means a challenge to the huge institutions of coercion and control: the state, the unaccountable private tyrannies that control most of the domestic and international economy.”
At Projectile 2008, Noam will be answering some prepared questions related to anarchism, current struggles, gender politics and class politics. There will be time for questions from the audience.
The venue for the Q&A is the brand new Lecture Theatre 002 in Newcastle Business School and School of Law Building at University of Northumbria's City Campus East
Its only a few minutes away from the Star & Shadow cinema and entry is included in the weekend festival pass, otherwise its £5/3 payable on the door. If you do pay on the door and subsequently decide to buy a Projectile pass, you will be entitled to a £5/3 reduction as appropriate.
