Noam Chomsky with Dutch activists on various topics

________________________

Noam Chomsky on Disconnect of 'Left Intellectuals' from Working People

Chomsky talks about the core issues for a workers' movement, and the disconnect between "Left Intellectuals" and the working class. He reviews the old tradition of working class culture and the destruction of it, and the tendency of "Left Intellectuals" to focus on "Post-Materialist issues" while ignoring fundamental problems that confront working people.

________________________

Noam Chomsky on Enlightenment, Classical Liberalism, Anarchism

Chomsky reviews the Enlightenment tradition, classical liberalism and how anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist thought and action is connected to this tradition.

________________________

Noam Chomsky on French Intellectual Culture & Post-Modernism

Chomsky talks about the unique history of the French intellectual culture. He also airs his concerns about the influence of irrational currents of thought on Third World intellectuals, which has severe consequences (as compared to some irrational talks in a Western Literature faculty).

________________________

Noam Chomsky on Nazi Collaboration in France, Italy, Greece & the Netherlands

Chomsky reviews the Resistance/Collaboration in Western and Southern Europe, pointing out the huge differences and the consequences for the decades that followed. He also talks about how this history has been falsified by propaganda.

________________________

Noam Chomsky on Freedom of Speech and Anti-Fascism

Chomsky discusses freedom of speech, its history, and how to deal with the rise of racist right-wing movements.

________________________

Noam Chomsky on The Left, Class, Racism, Xenophobia and the Right

Chomsky discusses the history of Racism in the United States, and dealing with xenophobia and the right. Historically these tendencies have been overcome by "common activities ... on the basis of their class interests."

________________________

Noam Chomsky on Education, Student Activism & Democracy

Chomsky reviews the history of elite hatred for democracy, student resistance, and the functioning of the education system in our times.

________________________

Noam Chomsky on Latin-America, Social Movements, Neo-Liberalism & Free Trade Agreement

Chomsky praises the developments in Latin America over the past decade, and places them in a larger context of Latin American history.

__________________________