there are some crucial points relevant to Chomsky's comments in here.
a lot of people point to the parallels in today's culture with the 1930's and predict or suggest we are in a sate incipient fascism once again. Chomsky disagrees> I too disagree.
Chomsky lists what he sees as different between current times and he 1930's but he is misleading by seeming to minimize the danger of this day, when he says there are no Storm Troopers, no fascist ideology. history may not be repeating itself, but has developed as it must new potentials relative to ALL that has gone before and the potential they have developed with which we must deal with now.
Capitalism has been a very unstable system, consistently so. Capitalism has produced social trouble for humanity from its inception to now..what surely is its current and final resolution. which is what I think Chomsky has missed so far. there is no more rope for capitalism from here on out, no more potential to go on. society has arrived at a stage of development that cannot permit capitalism to go on. the options from here on for humanity are Brave New World or complete and total social revolution , popular social control and people power
in the 1930's they were still thinking of the capitalist future, its replenishment by destroying the developed world and its reconstruction and the massive profits there would be in that. in the process of war and social crisis caused by capitalism the capitalist would also destroy their opposition so afterwards they would be free to make the world capitalist totally with no opposition which they would kill off in war times
today there is nothing of the sort. technological advance has made all that moot. humanity has achieved a massive, on-going, developing technology that in the hands of the capitalist has made the human population redundant. by capitalism there can be no more work for populations. no more social occupation. there is nothing for them so whether the ordinary people of the know it or not they are utterly and totally why revolutionary.
the point is that the rich know it. they know there is nothing they can do for the people or with the people..who when the become conscious of their plight in capitalism are likely to rise globally in unstoppable waves and overwhelm the capitalists. the capitalist have on option and one option only...and that is to destroy the people in all ways, period!
that is why there is no incipient ideology of fascism, shock troops and Hitler-rite figures. the figures we have around right now are far far far worse than Hitler ever was..all of them. every single one of them..The Clintons, Obama, Lil Bush, Trump, Theresa May, Tony Blair, Cameron, Macron, Bolton, Pompeo, Boris Johnson...
the leaders of every country in the world with the exception of those under pressure are the worst humans who have ever emerged into the light of political lead4ership. they are empty heartless people capable of anything. they are the result of generations of political control by the capitalist who have now controlled global politics completely and maintains a controlled flow of entry into politics everywhere of the worst types of human beings, those who are capable of anything
those who are in sync with the needs of the people like Jeremy Corbin in the UK are forever under pressure, relentlessly so, never given a moments freedom to be able to get anywhere with his program. you can tel the level of his sincerity by the pressure he is under.
so there is no fascistic ideology and Trump is no fascist. what he is a killer, a rich man totally in sync with the rich mans interest and position in the world and will do all he is there to do to facilitate that interest. Trump is a new type of human being, an utterly worthless human from the angle of the interest of the human species save his minute part of it. outside of his minute social interest Trump appears to be capable of anything at all. we may soon find out....
so that is what we face..the start of a process to try to establish a world over which the rich has permanent and total control. population everywhere must be reduced, killed off. are we seeing this development? IN SPADES!
whole health systems of nations have been co-opted in this effort..very noticeably in Canada and the USA. the Canadian health system no longer cares for the Canadian people but is killing Canadians as fast as thy can.
the same can be argued for the food system. the food that Canadians eat is almost totally poisoned..even the supposed organic stuff. there are additives all over the food that punish the human body over time reducing life expectancy all the time. supposed needs have been developed that have led to mass murder of Canadians like the human body parts industry. hospitals now do not care for for the patients who come in their doors. they let these patients die and harvests their body parts
there is pollution everywhere..and increasing. the drinking water has been poisoned by flouride and a host of poisons wantonly used in agriculture and industry that kills indiscriminately....
and the cultural component goes on unabated: the conditioning of the population into helplessness in the face of their murderer..the development of their inability to recognize their reality and fight back. religion and general education, the media content generally, all general activity are structure to have such a calming misdirecting effect on the people so that they will not even dream what is happening to them is actually happening
that is what is going on as far as I can see...it is what I knew would take place since I was a precocious poor lil bwoy growing up in Trinidad, hungry, raggedy, brutalized, traumatized, a voracious reader and bright like bulb, always first in test and under the jealousy of all around, even my own relatives..beaten up, tapped up. they took it all soon enough and I was left with nothing at all and had to make a way up and out.
but I saw the truth..my luck in life to have a mind like I have. I saw concentrically truth as it grew out of my experience into the world..how the world actually was..and is. I saw humans for what we are and I was sick to my soul about that.
" this is all we are humans, flesh and blood, after all the religious shit they fed into us! I was stunned! this is all we are, fragile, can dies just so like the flies we swat and the smaller life forms we killed on sight. we are no better, no stronger, no more secure on our own level that those forms of life"
I was angry at god for making me this way! I would die like any dog the same way. truth deflated the ego that religion had built up in me..facts that were undeniable. I began then to see the fraud of life and as it grew and I talked people became hostile to me. I did not see that till years later..even my teachers. I got wood and I did not know why. now I know because I talked, and behaved and they saw in me what I did not see in myself and got wood for it
but that is the point: I saw and predicted and proved, backed it up with the evidence. I knew that ultimately it would come to this day..when the human species would do this to itself from the way we lived..CAPITALISM! and I though the victims would be eager to hear truth and respond. another painful lesson learned there. the victims had been made complicit in their own victimization.. had become enemies of heir own truth
so here we are on the cusp of extinction for that is a potential as well we have done enough to the planet for it to rebound in ways that will cause human extinction. environmental degradation in conjunction with the Capitalist genocide of the population in attempt to create a humanity reality over which they absolute control of the numbers of people they deem they can control...should do it: combine to eliminate the human species.
so that is the human future right there: A form of Brave New World/Extinction.
the most positive development, a potentially saving development if it is not already too late would be general global social revolution, the elimination of the rich and organization of society by the people for the people. but can the do it, come out of their stupidity and existential stupor, realize their situation and act accordingly?
I don't know but that is the only chance we have..the only very slim chance humanity has of going on indefinitely in existence in nature