Sunday, June 19, 2011

OVERCOMING DESPAIR: A Conversation with Noam Chomsky and Michael Lerner

Overcoming Despair as the Republicans Take Over: A Conversation with Noam Chomsky & Michael Lerner

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Michael Lerner: You have made many excellent analyses of the power of global capital and its capacity to undermine ordinary citizens' efforts to transform the global reality toward a more humane and generous world. If there were a serious movement in the U.S. ready to challenge global capital, what should such a movement do? Or is it, as many believe, hopeless, given the power of capital to control the media, undermine democratic movements, and use the police/military power and the co-optive power of mass entertainment, endless spectacle, and financial compensations for many of the smartest people coming up through working-class and middle-income routes? What path is rational for a movement seeking to build a world of environmental sanity, social justice, and peace, yet facing such a sophisticated, powerful, and well-organized social order?

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