Chris hedges interviews noam chomsky biography

Noam Chomsky with Chris Hedges

The Real News, Part I, Part II, Part III, October 3,

CHRIS HEDGES: Let&#;s begin with a classic paradigm which is throughout the Industrial Revolution, which has been cited by theorists from Marx to Kropotkin to Proudhon and to yourself, that you build a consciousness among workers within the manufacturing class, and eventually you lead to a kind of autonomous position where workers can control their own production.

We now live in a system, a globalized system, where most of the working class in industrial countries like the United States are service workers.

Chris hedges interviews noam chomsky biography

We have reverted to a Dickensian system where those who actually produced live in conditions that begin to replicate almost slave labor &#; and, I think, as you have written, in places like southern China in fact are slave [labor].

What&#;s the new paradigm for resistance? You know, how do we learn from the old and confront the new?

NOAM CHOMSKY: Well,