Chomsky: The elites are fighting a vicious class war all the time

In this interview Chomsky reiterates that we need a working-class politics like Sanders represented to defeat the oligarchs who are hell bent on destroying democracy. And yet "traditional left-wing parties are becoming parties more and more of the educated elites."

Unfortunately Americans for the most part are, as he noted, living under far more favorable conditions than other places in the world under far more dire circumstances. Thus they are much more inclined to accept the status quo instead of take to the streets in protest, get involved politically in the class war fight or implement practical, populist solutions like those proposed by progressives. Or those not so fortunate are not in any position to do so.

 

Instead we tend more toward dreaming of a better socially engineered world designed by our own elite intelligentsia who are far removed from the general plight of most Americans. Therefore their top-down designs are devoid of such practical, middle-out solutions that might actually address how to remediate our plight. It turns out our own evolved or developed elites are still playing under the same rules that created the situation instead of taking up Chomsky's working-class politics.

 

Also see Thomas Frank on the topic.