Noam Chomsky blasts the assault on labor: “‘Right to work’ means ‘right to scrounge’”
Source: Salon
LUKE BRINKER
Identifying the lack of a robust labor movement as one of the chief inhibitors to social justice in the United States, the leftist intellectual Noam Chomsky decried the intensifying assault on American labor as an ominous development, declaring that so-called “right to work” laws really establish a “right to scrounge.”
In a Tucson appearance posted on The Nation’s website today, the linguist and political philosopher lamented to interviewer John Nichols last week that while activism is flourishing in communities throughout the country, there’s no cohesive movement for a more just society.
“I’ve lived in Boston since 1950, but I go to sections of Boston for talks and discover that there’s very significant activism going on in that neighborhood that people don’t know of in the next neighborhood where they’re doing some more things,” the longtime Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor related.
“Part of the reason is simply the absence of a labor movement,” Chomsky continued. “Throughout history, the labor movement has been — with all of its defects and deficiencies and limits — it’s been kind of a center around which things coalesce.”
FULL story at link. Watch the full interview at The Nation: http://www.thenation.com/article/202481/noam-chomsky-democracy-threat-any-power-system
Noam Chomsky (Credit: AP/Adel Hana)
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