{"id":1160,"date":"2021-09-03T18:19:56","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T22:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/?page_id=1160"},"modified":"2023-01-20T21:42:51","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T02:42:51","slug":"6-13","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/utopia1313\/6-13\/","title":{"rendered":"6\/13 | &#8220;Practical Utopias&#8221; with Noam Chomsky and Che Gossett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R8nOyNRy3rI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h2>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/utopia1313\/noam-chomsky\/\">Noam Chomsky<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/utopia1313\/che-gossett\/\">Che Gossett<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/utopia1313\/bernard-e-harcourt-host\/\">Bernard E. Harcourt<\/a><\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">read and discuss<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/chomsky.info\/19670223\/\">The Responsibility of Intellectuals<\/a>&#8221; (1967), Part 2 of the <a href=\"http:\/\/chomsky.info\/1971xxxx\/\">Foucault-Chomsky Debate on Politics<\/a> (1971),\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/theanarchistlibrary.org\/library\/noam-chomsky-on-anarchism\">On Anarchism<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(2013), and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/utopia1313\/files\/2022\/10\/MichaelAlbert_2017_Preface_PracticalUtopiaStrate.pdf\">Preface to <em>Practical Utopia<\/em><\/a> (2017) by Noam Chomsky<\/h2>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Wednesday, January 18, 2023<\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/utopia1313\/files\/2022\/09\/Directions-to-Jerome-Greene-Annex.pdf\">Jerome Greene Annex<\/a>, Columbia University<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Professor Noam Chomsky is and has been, for years now, a role model for critical thinkers and practitioners. An engaged intellectual with one of the clearest moral compasses, Professor Chomsky continuously shines a light on the injustices that surround us at home and abroad.\u00a0From his early, vocal, and staunch opposition to the Vietnam War and his classic 1967 essay on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/chomsky.info\/19670223\/\">The Responsibility of Intellectuals<\/a><\/em>, to his many engagements today in the midst of our present crises\u2014climate, nuclear, economic, and geopolitical\u2014Chomsky has always challenged our governments, institutions, and those with power to prove that they are legitimately exercising their power and has always held them to task.\u00a0Never one to compromise his principled beliefs, Noam Chomsky unfailingly speaks truth to power in the great and long tradition of the <em>parrhesiasts<\/em>. A modern-day Voltaire or Rousseau or Wollstonecraft, in his humility and brutal honesty Chomsky often reminds me of the greatest <em>parrhesiast<\/em> in antiquity, the philosopher Diogenes of Sinope.<\/p>\n<p>In his <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/utopia1313\/files\/2022\/10\/MichaelAlbert_2017_Preface_PracticalUtopiaStrate.pdf\">Preface<\/a> to Michael Albert\u2019s book <em>Practical Utopias<\/em>, Professor Chomsky speaks about \u201cplanting the \u2018seeds of the future in the present.\u2019\u201d That notion is very close to the idea of &#8220;concrete utopias&#8221; as &#8220;histories of the future.&#8221; Elsewhere, in\u00a0his <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/utopia1313\/noam-chomsky-on-the-common-good\/\">Dewey lectures<\/a>, Chomsky embraces the political theory of anarcho-syndicalism as, what he calls, \u201ca reasonable approximation of the common good.\u201d He traces modern anarchism historically to the classical liberal tradition that emerged in the Enlightenment, and argues that it forms part of a larger category of political thought which favors genuinely participatory democratic processes that \u201clead very naturally to a vision of society based on workers\u2019 control of productive institutions.\u201d That category includes not only anarcho-syndicalist thinkers and actors (such as Rudolf Rocker), but also truly democratic thinkers within classical liberalism (such as John Dewey), and liberal economic thinkers (such as Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill, properly read). Chomsky maintains that anarchism, properly understood, forms part of this genuine libertarian tradition and that it offers the best seeds for our future and common good.<\/p>\n<p>It is to these questions that we turn to in our seminar with Noam Chomsky and Che Gossett.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to Utopia 6\/13!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8444\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8444\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8444\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/utopia1313\/files\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-20-at-9.39.59-PM-300x228.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/utopia1313\/files\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-20-at-9.39.59-PM-300x228.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/utopia1313\/files\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-20-at-9.39.59-PM-768x584.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/utopia1313\/files\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-20-at-9.39.59-PM.png 934w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8444\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chomsky-Foucault Debate 1971<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[To read more, click <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/utopia1313\/bernard-e-harcourt-noam-chomsky-and-the-common-good\/\">here<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noam Chomsky, Che Gossett, and Bernard E. Harcourt read and discuss &#8220;The Responsibility of Intellectuals&#8221; (1967), Part 2 of the Foucault-Chomsky Debate on Politics (1971),\u00a0On Anarchism\u00a0(2013), and\u00a0Preface to Practical Utopia (2017) by Noam Chomsky Wednesday, January 18, 2023 Jerome Greene&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/utopia1313\/6-13\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1603,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1160","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/utopia1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/utopia1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/utopia1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/utopia1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1603"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/utopia1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/utopia1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/utopia1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}