{"id":9219,"date":"2020-03-12T08:16:51","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T07:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=9219"},"modified":"2020-03-12T08:16:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T07:16:51","slug":"chomsky-bernie-is-vilified-because-he-has-inspired-a-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=9219","title":{"rendered":"Chomsky: \u201cBernie Is Vilified Because He Has Inspired a Movement\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tribunemag.co.uk\/2020\/03\/noam-chomsky-bernie-is-vilified-because-he-has-inspired-a-movement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chomsky<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There is another special thing about the United States \u2014 the militant, almost hysterical, anti-Left propaganda. For example, McCarthyism, which is attributed to Joe McCarthy, though Truman actually is the one who started it. One of its aspects \u2014 the red-baiting \u2014 was to drive the militant labour leaders out of the unions on charges that they were soft on Communism or working for the Russians or one thing or another. Again, that\u2019s pretty specific to the United States.<\/p>\n<p>You can see that strikingly today where there is huge debate about Sanders being a socialist. \u2018How can we have a socialist president?\u2019 In fact, Sanders is what would be called a moderate social democrat in most other societies. In other societies, the word \u2018socialist\u2019 is not a curse word \u2014 people call themselves socialists and even communists. In the United States, there\u2019s a stigma attached to it by massive propaganda going way back to 1917. Such huge propaganda efforts to demonise the concepts of socialism and communism (saying it means the \u2018gulag\u2019 or whatever) is again pretty much unique to the United States. It\u2019s a barrier to introducing even mild New Deal-style social democratic reforms.<\/p>\n<p>These are all specific problems. They\u2019re not completely unique to the United States, of course, but they happen to be exaggerated here because of the nature of the society \u2014 that it is business-run to an unusual extent, and this business community is militant and organised. The Chamber of Commerce and other business organisations are fighting a bitter class war.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chomsky: There is another special thing about the United States \u2014 the militant, almost hysterical, anti-Left propaganda. For example, McCarthyism, which is attributed to Joe McCarthy, though Truman actually is the one who started it. One of its aspects \u2014 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=9219\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}