Chomsky: Work, Learning, Freedom

I’d like to begin the New Year by thanking Noam Chomsky for his interview by Michael Kasenbacher published by RSN on December 27.

In the interview the 84 year-old Chomsky makes an important philosophical contribution to the building of a new 21st century society by viewing Work and Learning in the context of Freedom. In the process he defines what it means to be a human being and what it means to be revolutionary at this time on the clock of the world.

I have never met Chomsky. Nor have I up to now wanted to write about him.

But I was moved by the personal story Chomsky tells in this interview (of how he lost his freedom as he became part and parcel of the U.S. educational system) and I believe it can play an in important role in the reimagining of Work and Education that is now urgently needed and already going on, especially in Detroit where devastation by industrialization has created the place and space for us to begin The Next American Revolution.