{"id":2344,"date":"2020-05-18T14:04:40","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T14:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/?p=2344"},"modified":"2020-09-22T16:27:20","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T16:27:20","slug":"noam-chomsky-driven-into-the-industrial-system-driven-into-wage-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2020\/05\/18\/noam-chomsky-driven-into-the-industrial-system-driven-into-wage-slavery\/","title":{"rendered":"Noam Chomsky: &#8220;driven into the industrial system&#8221; &#8212; &#8220;driven into wage-slavery&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\nIn the following interview of Noam Chomsky by Chris Hedges, Chomsky starts with the historical reality of people in the United States &#8220;driven into the industrial system.&#8221; And he goes on to describe the workers&#8217; resistance to this state of affairs, and he also describes the government&#8217;s successful efforts to foster compliance through the &#8220;manufacture of consent,&#8221; including through general education.  \n<p>\nChomsky&#8217;s economic solution is to have a system of worker-owned enterprises. A solution, incidentally, which is also supported by Richard Wolff.\n<p>\nMy quick response it that a worker-owned enterprise is compatible with capitalism. It does not address itself to the problem of unemployment.\n<p>\nThe problem with this interview is that it does not address itself to the question: &#8220;How is the population driven into the industrial system?&#8221;\n<p>\nThe answer is tied to the necessary condition for capitalism, which is the political deprivation of people to a free access to subsistence land. And the other matter which has to be addressed is: How does such a political system work (and is possible) which drives people into wage-slavery ?\n<p>\nWhat is required is a critique of the U.S. Constitution &#8212; a critique which neither Chomsky nor Hedges is prepared to give!   \n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o9eRrSfNzng\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the following interview of Noam Chomsky by Chris Hedges, Chomsky starts with the historical reality of people in the United States &#8220;driven into the industrial system.&#8221; And he goes on to describe the workers&#8217; resistance to this state of affairs, and he also describes the government&#8217;s successful efforts to foster compliance through the &#8220;manufacture &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2020\/05\/18\/noam-chomsky-driven-into-the-industrial-system-driven-into-wage-slavery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Noam Chomsky: &#8220;driven into the industrial system&#8221; &#8212; &#8220;driven into wage-slavery&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capitalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2345,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344\/revisions\/2345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}