Noam Chomsky: Fight the Class Struggle or Get it in the Neck
As Noam Chomsky puts it in a recent interview, “unless working people take part in the class struggle, they're going to get it in the neck.”
In addition to Noam Chomsky’s pioneering work in linguistics, he is a leading voice for peace and social justice. (Flickr)
Noam Chomsky, by any measure, has led an extraordinary life. In one index he is ranked as the eighth most cited person in history, right up there with Aristotle, Shakespeare, Marx, Plato, and Freud. The MIT professor’s contributions to modern linguistics are legendary.
In addition to his pioneering work in that field he has been a leading voice for peace and social justice for many decades. As journalist Chris Hedges says, he is “America’s greatest intellectual” who “makes the powerful, as well as their liberal apologists, deeply uncomfortable.”
Chomsky, a longtime friend of Jacobin, has been a frequent interview subject for our mutual collaborator David Barsamian. The following interview, also broadcast in audio form on Alternative Radio, was conducted on November 30 in Arizona. In it, Chomsky discusses the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the November 2020 presidential election, the US Constitution, the ongoing threats to peace and justice in the world, and why we need class struggle now more than ever.
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