Videos van Groepsinterview met Chomsky in Leiden ( VIDEOS ARE IN ENGLISH )

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Noam Chomsky speaks to Dutch activists on various topics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODtqoottyRY 

Youtube playlist met alle clips en de hele opname erin:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC33823D316D01309&feature=view_all

Questions on Anarchism

Chomsky on Disconnect of "Left Intellectuals" from working people

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs5fIH-didg

Chomsky talks about the core issues for a workers' movement, and the disconnect between "Left Intellectuals" and the working class. He reviews the old tradition of working class culture and the destruction of it, and the tendency of "Left Intellectuals" to focus on "Post-Materialist issues" while ignoring fundamental problems that confront working people. The interview was conducted in Leiden, the Netherlands, in March 2011.

Late Eighteenth Century, Early Nineteenth Century, the Left, Popular/Working Class Education, Activism, Post-materialist Activism, Disconnect from working people. 

Enlightenment, Classical Liberalism, Anarchism,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60z2zGbGbfE

Chomsky reviews the Enlightenment tradition, classical liberalism and how anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist thought and action is connected to this tradition. The interview was conducted in Leiden, the Netherlands, in March 2011.

Wilhelm von Humboldt, Education, Organization, Rudolf Rocker, Capitalism, Anarcho-Syndicalism

French Intellectual Culture, Post-Modernism

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cqTE_bPh7M

Chomsky talks about the unique history of the French intellectual culture. He also airs his concerns about the influence of irrational currents of thought on Third World intellectuals, which has severe consequences (as compared to some irrational talks in a Western Literature faculty). The interview was conducted in Leiden, the Netherlands, in March 2011.

Paris, Stalinism, Maoism, Cristovam, Logical Positivism, Enlightenment, Irrationality, Discourse, Third World Intellectual Culture. 

Nazi Collaboration and Resistance in France, Italy and Greece and the Netherlands

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjnC436II3A

Chomsky reviews the Resistance/Collaboration in Western and Southern Europe, pointing out the huge differences and the consequences for the decades that followed. He also talks about how this history has been falsified by propaganda. The interview was conducted in Leiden, the Netherlands, in March 2011.

North Europe, Southern Europe, Collaboration, Resistance, Nazi's, Destruction of structures of Resistance by the U.S, Falsification of History

The Right

14.13: 00.43.35 – 00.57.48 Freedom of Speech and Anti-Fascism

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3X1zm16u90

Chomsky discusses freedom of speech, its history, and how to deal with the rise of racist right-wing movements. The interview was conducted in Leiden, the Netherlands, in March 2011.

US Bill of Right, US Constitution, US First Amendment, First World War, Eugene Debs, Supreme Court, Civil Rights Movement, Times v. Sullivan, Seditions Libel, Ku Klux Klan, Obama, PKK, Terrorism, Cuba, Irak, Terrorist list, England, UK, Libel Laws, Holocaust Denial

the Left, Class, Xenophobia and the Right

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Yed2NlLWgY

Chomsky discusses the history of Racism in the United States, and dealing with xenophobia and the right. Historically these tendencies have been overcome by "common activities … on the basis of their class interests." Chomsky also praises the intellectual culture in Turkey and compares it favorably to Western countries. The interview was conducted in Leiden, the Netherlands, in March 2011. 

Slavery, Racism, Slave Labor, Prison System, Jim Crow, incarceration of African Americans and Hispanics, class and racism, Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King, labor movement

Education

11.29: 00.75.34 – 00.87.05 Education, Student Activism, Democracy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wndi4OaFAS4

Chomsky reviews the history of elite hatred for democracy, student resistance, and the functioning of the education system in our times. The interview was conducted in Leiden, the Netherlands, in March 2011.

Crisis of Democracy, Tri-lateral Commission, the sixties, indoctrination, tuition fees, college, compulsory testing, discipline, student debt, Mexico, University, Berkeley, privatization, Pentagon, commercialization,

Latin America

Latin-America, Social Movements, Neo-Liberalism, Free Trade Agreements

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjwKF7kcpvg

Chomsky praises the developments in Latin America over the past decade, and places them in a larger context of Latin American history. The interview was conducted in Leiden, the Netherlands, in March 2011.

What can we learn from Latin-America? Colonialism, Development, Investment, Indigenous movement, Bolivia, Evo Morales, Resources