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Dark Noam Chomsky: Europeans are ‘Like Lemmings,‘ Their Society Is ’Committing Suicide’ Through Austerity
- Posted on June 25, 2012 at 3:35pm by
Benny Johnson
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American Linguist and pronounced leftist Noam Chomsky did not parse words on his disgust concerning the European policy of austerity last week. In a sit down interview with Bubble TV, Chomsky noted that European society are “like lemmings” and are “committing suicide” by adopting measures to cut back on spending and reigning in on tax and services fraud.
Chomsky sounded slightly conspiratorial in his remarks, proclaiming that “the designers of the policy” made sure that everyone had a “harsher life” but themselves. He used the term “failure by design” to describe the discrepancy between the outcomes of the “banks and Wall Street” and the common European man at the mercy of their austerity.
His remarks were made on the record after receiving his honorary degree from the University of Scotland.
Watch the edited version of Chomsky’s response here:
Key Chomsky quotes:
- “Europe is kinda like lemmings walking off a cliff. The society is committing suicide. Which is,it’s a little misleaded [sic]. The designers of the policies are under– I think, understand what they’re doing.”
- “And it may significantly harm the society, but it’ll benefit the interests that they serve. So the basic policies of austerity during recession, or stagnation, are suicidal for the society”
- “These policies are, can’t work, in some respects. On the other hand they can work for other purposes. They’ll dismantle the social contract, they’ll dismantle the welfare state, they’ll weaken labor, strengthen concentrated private power. Well, from another point of view that’s a success.”
- ”Why should we accept workers rights, or rights of the poor, and so on? There’s something comparable in the U.S.”
- “What they point is, yes, it’s a fail–the policies they’ve followed are a failure, for maybe, you know, 90% of the population. But it’s a class-based failure. There’s a sector of the population, not coincidentally the designers of the policy, for whom it’s an enormous success. So it’s, and it’s designed because there always has been alternative policies and there still are. So it’s failure by design. And I think something like that’s pretty much true in Europe. Except Europe, they really do itself in severely if these policies continue.”
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SamIamTwo
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 10:40amSocialism is suicide. The man is living in the wrong time period or he has adopted/embraced the new communist who chose to use capitalism as a means to an end…it’s called commitlism.
Should have been paying attention to the changes in the 80′s and it was on the net…on the official usa communist web site. cpusa.org
http://letter-z.hubpages.com/hub/What-is-Commitalism
At once ethical and spiritual, at once personal and social, commitalism is less about production that caters to materialism and consumerism and more about creative expression that benefits the spirit of the people and ushers in a constantly evolving zeitgeist (spirit of the times). It is less about “to each according to need” and more about “living simply so that others may simply live.” It is less about capital and more about respect for what is borrowed. It is less about ownership and more about relationships.
Scared yet?
Report Post »wntsmallgov
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 1:37amLike a good Socialist doing everything he can to save the power.
Report Post »RedDawn2012
Posted on June 26, 2012 at 8:04pmIs Chomsky illiterate or is he just very, very old? Yet his ideas are simply childish. How many thousands of these “gypsies” like him, all spouting the communist line about the one world paradise, will it take before we tell them all to take a short walk off a long pier?
Report Post »Derfel Cadarn
Posted on June 26, 2012 at 4:41pmChomsky like the rest on the “intellectual” Left is a moron. Yes austerity is going to hurt and be difficult for the people but at least it will be a controlled problem. Business as usaual will be a runaway train that will certainly lead to economoic and societal collapse inflicting unimaginable pain and misery on the people. The unstabling effect of this collapse is just what the Left desires in its effort to sieze total control. The choice is between austerity and bankruptcy and its resulting chaos.
Report Post »davecorkery
Posted on June 26, 2012 at 11:43amSocialism, budgeting, etc are not the problems. Borrowing money to keep the status quo is. What everyone ignores is that when you borrow, you have to get the money from a willing lender. What happens when the lenders decide not to lend? Why is no one looking at that side? That is exactly what is happening in Greece, Spain, and the others. Stop borrowing.
Report Post »SocialistSlayer
Posted on June 26, 2012 at 4:28pmIt always amazes me just how stupid some “smart” people are!
Report Post »jscottu
Posted on June 26, 2012 at 10:08amChomsky is a way over-rated intellect. He got bored with his area of expertise (linguistics) and proclaimed himself “an economist”.
Report Post »paperpushermj
Posted on June 26, 2012 at 2:50amDARK NOAM CHOMSKY: EUROPEANS ARE ‘LIKE LEMMINGS,‘ THEIR SOCIETY IS ’COMMITTING SUICIDE’ THROUGH AUSTERITY
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IF THAT IS THE CASE SIR
.Why are you not here, speaking against the very Political Ideology that brought Down Old Europe and is taking root here in this Country? Where are your three shots into the air to warn us?
lukerw
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 8:48pmBudgeting does not kill — SOCIALISM is the History of Killing Millions of People to support an Unproven Ideology, which has always failed, so far!
Report Post »paperpushermj
Posted on June 26, 2012 at 2:58amI disagree it is not unproven in fact the jury is in on Socialism ….It doesn’t Work
Report Post »paperpushermj
Posted on June 26, 2012 at 3:05amThe Bigger the Government.
Report Post »The Smaller the Citizen.
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This is one of the flaws its…… toxic to the Human Spirit and Soul.
venerablebede
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 8:48pmYeah Noam, your are a linguist not an economist. And besides you thought Pol Pots Cambodia was a Socialist paradise. Now there’s austerity for you!
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 8:38pmThis is KILLING Europe Noam Chumpsky
“Sweden is about to become a big nation. The number of people has surpassed 9.5 millions. It grew by 500 000 within seven years. Of these, almost 400 000 are owed to immigration, espepcially of somalis, afghans and iraqis.”
http://vladtepesblog.com/?p=49535
The left is killing Europe.
Report Post »AmericanFightingMan1
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 9:01pmThe Left is collaborating in the extermination of Europeans, but Europeans are willing co-conspirators in their own death.
No one is putting a gun to the heads of Europeans to not have children, but that is precisely what they are doing. No one is making Europeans abort their own children, but that is what they are doing. No one makes Europeans hedonistic, but that is what they are. This is cultural and ethnic suicide that we are witnessing, and no one is making them do it.
Conservatives believe in personal responsibility, or so they (we) say. So, live what you (we) preach. Take responsibility for our own actions and build the future through strong families. Don’t worry about what others are doing, build yourselves. That is the key.
Conservatives who forgo families have little credibility IMHO.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 8:36pmNoam Chumpsky says that austerity will kill Europe. Well how did we get to the crisis in the 1st place?
Answer: Thru Keynesian deficit spending.
I am for the Ryan plan. Don’t cut but limit increases in government expenditures to 0 to 3%. It is not austerity & it is not Keynesian. But the that was considered Dead on arrival (DOA) by good lemming leftists.
Any further Keynesian is enforced slavery. It is serfdom for John Galt & like minded people.
Some one on Kudlow’s show said we need the ANIMAL SPIRITt in the stock market.
Well I have news. The progressives have ground the animal spirit into the dust with progressive tax rates & social spending.
Report Post »Magyar
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 8:33pmHey Noam–
The best thing you can do is to shut up and rework your X-Bar theory!
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 8:30pmEurope is committing suicide thru unlimited immigration & the welfare state.
Noam Chomsky, who was an erudite linguist and is an idiot about everything else, is not worthy of any audience. We know what the leftist will say before he says it. It is straight out of the Marxist playbook.
Report Post »tomacz
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 8:01pmnoam ought to stick to language acquisition in kiddies,as smart as steven hawking is in cosmology,
Report Post »with the ability to chew up,commit to memory an 8 1/2 x 11 single sp page of equations,hawking ‘believes’ in global warming
chomskys most memorable miscontribution to the concept of world justice was a letter to french authorities requesting clemency for ilyich ramirez sanchez whom the french SDECE tackled for terror bombings,,(became a muslim 10 years ago,& married his defence attorney,allah akhbar))
the attempt in 62 on prez deGaulle led to the execution of bastien thierry,DeGaulle ordering this because because his wife was in the vehicle when BT let loose on the citroen.
somewhat off topic, but so is chomsky,he is tone deaf
,but europe has bankrupted itself with 40 years of increasing social bennies,and an eroding tax base to pay for them,,,,
Magyar
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 8:52pmGood grief—How did he get from MIT to the X-Bar theory to all of this? Thanks for the update! I always did regard his language acquisition theories random and therefore justifiably rejected by a jury of his peers.
No wonder he moved on to politics and beyond…..
Report Post »Rickfromillinois
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 7:44pmMr. Obama did lecture the European leaders on their promotion of austerity measures instead of spending more and raising taxes. Does that tell anyone how much trouble we can be heading for?
Report Post »Magyar
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 8:59pmYes, you’re right…..sure hope you’re prepared!
Report Post »scuba13
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 7:44pmI wasn’t aware that cooking linguine makes someone a linguist.
Report Post »Verum Ad Potentia
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 7:21pmHow is living within one’s means ’Committing Suicide’?
Report Post »dmerwin
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 7:10pmOr overspending. Only overspending will bankrupt you.
Report Post »Nora
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 7:00pm.
Report Post »I wish someone would put old Noam in my old neighborhood in Bushwick Brooklyn and and just leave him there. He could integrate with the neighborhood “poor.”
thegodfather
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 6:27pmOnly an ignorant Communist could look at this situation in Europe, a mountain of unsustainable debt, and tell everyone….”spend MORE… spend faster…and raise taxes”.
The guy is a citified ignoramus.
Report Post »TinSoldier
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 6:09pmHuh? I think he would recommend sticking a fork in your eye to cure a headache . . .
Report Post »Tal-El
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 6:03pmThe guys has had tenure at MIT for decades. He has zero clue about the real world. In addition to being a rabid communist. “Linguist” my a**.
Report Post »Magyar
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 8:57pmTouche!
Report Post »normalmom
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 5:40pmWell the US is trying to join the Europeans.
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