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Re: team captain picking
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Originally Posted by Bob Steele
We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. ...
points for those that know where this comes from....
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Noam Chomsky is perhaps the best known American proponent of anarcho-syndicalism in the late 20th century. He is actually better known for his work in linguistics, developing transformational grammar (TG). His book on Syntactic Structures influenced two generations of linguistic scholars.
A passage from Chomsky explaining anarcho-syndicalism:
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Originally Posted by Wikipedia
(link)'Now a federated, decentralised system of free associations, incorporating economic as well as other social institutions, would be what I refer to as anarcho-syndicalism; and it seems to me that this is the appropriate form of social organisation for an advanced technological society in which human beings do not have to be forced into the position of tools, of cogs in the machine. There is no longer any social necessity for human beings to be treated as mechanical elements in the productive process; that can be overcome and we must overcome it to be a society of freedom and free association, in which the creative urge that I consider intrinsic to human nature will in fact be able to realize itself in whatever way it will.'*
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* The Chomsky-Foucault Debate on Human Nature, The New Press, 2006, p.38-9
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Last edited by Richard Wallace : 16-03-2015 at 11:38.
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