[Peace-discuss] A new left/right antiwar movement?

[C. G. Estabrook]

Actually, Chomsky defines it rather precisely - even in the quote below.  See 
e.g. his 1970 lecture "Government in the Future" (republished. 2005 - I'll give 
you a copy if you like) and many comments since then (to take one almost at 
random - "The Soviet Union Versus Socialism").

Nor is it a coinage of Chomsky's but rather a term in general use in the 20th 
century (not usually in the US, with exceptions like Rudolf Rocker). Lenin's  
"'Left-Wing' Communism: An Infantile Disorder" (1920) is an attack on 
Libertarian Socialism.

Libertarianism OTOH as it has come to be understood in the US today (and almost 
exclusively there) is a much different - and much newer - notion: sort of an 
anarcho-capitalism (which Chomsky has attacked quite harshly).

For an introduction, see <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_socialism>.


On 3/22/11 5:58 PM, Morton K. Brussel wrote:
> "libertarian socialist"? Chomsky is far from defining that oxymoron.  Think about Ron Paul as the quintessential libertarian. Amazing!
> --mkb
> On Mar 22, 2011, at 4:22 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
>
>> On 3/22/11 12:58 PM, "E. Wayne Johnson 朱稳森" wrote:
>>> ...Why not a paleoconservative/classical liberal/libertarian/progressive Coalition Against the War? If such a diverse motley crew as Ron Paul, Walter Jones, Barney Frank, Ralph Nader, Cynthia McKinney, Dennis Kucinich, Chuck Baldwin, Tim Johnson, et al can put aside deep ideologic disaggregative forces and stand together against the War Machine, why cant more of us find it in our hearts to do the same?  Why not?
>> I agree entirely, but while we're about it I'd want to put my own cards on the table. I heard the following from Chomsky long ago, and I've not seen any reason in 40 years to disagree with it:
>>
>> ""I think that the libertarian socialist concepts - and by that I mean a range of thinking
>> that extends from left-wing Marxism through anarchism - are fundamentally correct
>> and that they are the proper and natural extension of classical liberalism
>> into the era of advanced industrial society."
>>
>> --CGE
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