Noam Chomsky Speaks to Occupy: If We Want a Chance at a Decent Future, the Movement Here and Around the World Must Grow

Noam Chomsky Speaks to Occupy: If We Want a Chance at a Decent Future, the Movement Here and Around the World Must Grow

Noam Chomsky nails it in an address to Occupy Boston which is transcribed here.

He covers the differentiation of this movement from any that came before, and the importance of it, because, quite simply, this may be our last shot to reverse the cycle of wealth/power consolidation that has been quickening since the 1970's.

The elite skimp on wages, make more income, buy more legislation which increases their bottom line, and repeat the process, until they become the paper aristocracy.

The only way to avoid this behavior is a vigilant working class who form co-ops, worker owned companies, and don't place their money or time or interest in institutions that don't help their struggles.

He nails the truth undergirding the corporate personage issue, in that the issue is that all people aren't considered people, and yet corporations are. It used to be that indigenous Americans and blacks were 3/5ths of a person in the eyes of the law. Now in the eyes of the legal fictions running the oligopolies, the 99% are 3/5ths of a person.

This is the part where I am forced to bring up dystopian futures where the caste system in America is rigidly enforced by the culture and social mobility is a long forgotten dream, an anachronism of a bygone era. We need to fight the apathy and attack the plutocrats.

Reports show that thousands of people are voting with their feet and removing their money form transnational banks owned by legal fictions and depositing their wages in locally owned credit unions. This alone is an answer for the banks hegemony. Cripple them and deny them handouts. They are not too big to fail OR jail.

Read the full transcript here:

Noam Chomsky Speaks to Occupy: If We Want a Chance at a Decent Future, the Movement Here and Around the World Must Grow