Noam Chomsky Explodes Neoliberal Myths

Noam Chomsky explodes the myths of neoliberalism, explaining why it has led to stagnating living standards and the decline of democracy.

[arcarsenal]

Chomsky's analysis on point as always.
A true living legend.

[JayeshPatel-ekou]

I liked Owens interview technique for this one. Ask concise questions then listen for a while as a man with a century worth of paying attention to the world tells you what he's found out.

[gondolf]

"The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.”
― Bill Hicks

[alfvideos]

Great interview! I would like to see Owen interview Zizek next.

[petermanuel]

I love the guy but YouTube speed controls are definitely your friend here.

[bigt]

I am well read on the works of Friedman, and I have found myself agreeing with a great deal of the content. It is vital, though, to hear the counterpoints and criticisms, and who better to provide such a clinical and accessible evaluation than Noam Chomsky? Thanks Owen. From Noam to Peter Hitchens, your channel offers a wide range of conflicting and stimulating debate. Keep it up!

[Marenqo]

Rarely is the word "legend" more appropriate than in this case of Chomsky

[murrumbidgeekid]

Noam Chomsky was 93 and 11 days old at the time this was posted. What an excellent way to use you life force.

[Fenster]

There are two sides to wage stagnation since the 1970s. Stagnating working wages AND dramatically increased productivity. Chomsky is saying the neoliberal empowering of corporations led to regulatory capture, but only then goes into how regulatory capture was used to increase productivity and elides how it was used to stagnate wages.
Corporations are making more money than ever and workers are capturing a shrinking slice of it. Why? The decline in the labor movement? But how was the labor movement crushed?
Outsourcing, immigration, and financial speculation. Manufacturing hasn’t declined, it’s just moved elsewhere.

[harleywykes]

I always wanted to know what Father Christmas’s political positions were

[clairestark]

It's hard to calculate what an unmitigated disaster this was. I doubt even conservatives are really happy with this

[BlazarAzul]

It couldn't be more pertinent and current.

[ronitdebnath]

His criticism of Neoliberalism is on point. But let's not forget, this was a guy who couldn't foresee Venezuela's fall.

[BeeBeard]

Maybe George Monbiot should listen to Chomsky more and not come out with daft analogies like "house-trained capitalism" and "War lord Capitalism"
Chomsky may be hard to listen to sometimes, bit he doesn't treat his audience like children.

[cubeh]

Can you not use the buzzfeed-esque headlines please?

[jacobmacdonagh]

The fact that you think what we are living in now is neoliberal is crazy, we are so far from a free market. Cronyism and govt control of private businesses is not free market. If govt raise the barriers of entry to a market and give preference to big companies of course these big companies are going to become disproportionately powerful but this is an issue of not enough freedom, not too much freedom

[sirin]

is there anyone that looks older than Noam Chomsky

[adamwatson]

Its simple owen . It's the type of politics your beloved E.U advocates

[mantistoboggan]

Man why can't people just let him rest, poor dude just go have a nap yknow

[mannatuu]

well there is no danger of Owen becoming a revolutionary. You should interview that other apologist Chris Hedges. Wow the 3 of you ...what an awesome force of ''describers''.