{"id":15530,"date":"2013-12-16T19:26:36","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T00:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=15530"},"modified":"2013-12-16T19:27:43","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T00:27:43","slug":"on-anarchism-book-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/12\/16\/on-anarchism-book-discussion\/","title":{"rendered":"On Anarchism: Book Discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>C-Span recorded the November 18, 2013 <a title=\"C-Span coverage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.c-spanvideo.org\/program\/316460-1\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>discussion by Noam Chomsky on his book On Anarchism<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Noam Chomsky, professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, talked about his book, On Anarchism, in which he examines the political ideology of anarchism, from its history and early proponents to the author&#8217;s thoughts on its current usage and practicality. Noam Chomsky spoke at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I cannot embed the video here, so you&#8217;ll have to use the link above.\u00a0 There are many startling and useful revelations in the video.<\/p>\n<p>In answer to a question at the end of the video, <a title=\"Slavery clip from video\" href=\"http:\/\/www.c-spanvideo.org\/clip\/4477727\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Chomsky explains why preserving slavery was an important factor for the American Revolution<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 Not that this is the most startling nor most useful part of the discussion, but I did find it interesting.\u00a0 The preceding link is to the clip of only a couple of minutes of the talk.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to MardyS for pointing me to this discussion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C-Span recorded the November 18, 2013 discussion by Noam Chomsky on his book On Anarchism. Noam Chomsky, professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, talked about his book, On Anarchism, in which he examines the political ideology of anarchism, from its history and early proponents to the author&#8217;s thoughts on its current usage and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15530"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15534,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15530\/revisions\/15534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}