Noam Chomsky: Occupy Movement "Has Created Something That Didn't Really Exist" in US — Solidarity

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Published on May 14, 2012 by democracynow

DemocracyNow.org - Noam Chomsky says the Occupy movement has helped rebuild class solidarity and communities of mutual support on a level unseen since the time of the Great Depression. "The Occupy movement spontaneously created something that doesn't really exist in the country: Communities of mutual support, cooperation, open spaces for discussion ... people doing things and helping each other," Chomsky says. "That's very much missing. There (has been) massive propaganda going on for a century, that you really shouldn't care about anyone else, just yourself ... To rebuild (class solidarity) -- even in small pieces of society -- can become very important, can change the conception of how society ought to function." Chomsky also gives his assessment of President Obama, whom he says has attacked civil liberties in a way that "goes beyond George W. Bush."

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