how do you destroy a chomskyite
Yes…
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Although I sense I’ve missed some bad joke…
Chomsky, ironically enough, has a grudge with words. Most of the things that fly from his mouth make zero sense.
We need specific arguments from chomskyites before we can ‘destroy’ them.
Does Chomsky have a grudge against whatever he feels at any moment like calling “capitalism?” Uh yes.
I will commence the search for stupidity
The fundamental difference between Chomsky and Ancaps it that the former doesn’t believe in Lockean Homesteading. We both agree with free association though.
Chomsky thinks that lockean homesteading will lead to a concentration of wealth in the hands of a few. He adopts a Utilitarian stance that workers ought to own the means of production because its the best thing for the workers.
Two things to point out:
- VOLUNTARISM:
If you’re opposed to ownership of things because of scarcity, then you must also be opposed to self ownership because individuals are also scarce. Chomsky is afraid that a big corporation will own all the food and enslave everyone by threatening to withold food. Similarly, a brain surgeon could enslave his patients by refusing to perform the operation.
In short, both capital and people are the means of production. Hence the term human capital. You cannot be a voluntarist and then oppose private property on consequentialist grounds. For consistency, Chomsky needs to drop the voluntarist label.
- UTILITARIANISM:
If worker-ownership of the means of production were really the most efficient way to run things, it would already be being done. In some businesses, it actually is. It just depends on the motivation/composition/skills of your workforce. Its a matter of practicality.
A bunch of workers binding together and deciding to pool their resources, and open a factory is perfectly in line with Anarcho Capitalism.
What Chomsky also seems to think is useful is for workers to usurp control of the means of production from its owners. This completely ignores the capital creation process, where entrepreneurs engage in risks so that they might reap rewards of their labor. If you take away the rewards, you no longer get entrepreneurs investing in capital. Capital investment saves the human race. I think this point undermines Chomsky’s Utilitarian position.
“I will commence the search for stupidity”
Now THAT is a short journey my friend.
can;t you find common ground with them on foreign policy? the only difference is they blame it on capitalism.