Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide. May 4, 2012 | Like this article?
Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. Noam Chomsky has not just been watching the Occupy movement. A veteran of the civil rights, anti-war, and anti-intervention movements of the 1960s through the 1980s, he’s given lectures at Occupy Boston and talked with occupiers across the US. Home. Occupy. All Posters. Occupy Wall Street's anarchist roots. Almost every time I'm interviewed by a mainstream journalist about Occupy Wall Street I get some variation of the same lecture: "How are you going to get anywhere if you refuse to create a leadership structure or make a practical list of demands?
And what's with all this anarchist nonsense - the consensus, the sparkly fingers? Don't you realise all this radical language is going to alienate people? You're never going to be able to reach regular, mainstream Americans with this sort of thing! " If one were compiling a scrapbook of worst advice ever given, this sort of thing might well merit an honourable place. FSTV's "Occupy The Media" May Day Coverage. The #Occupy MOVEMENT.