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 ... just
people doing things and helping each other," Chomsky says. "That’s very
much missing. There is a massive propaganda—it’s been going on for a
century, but picking up enormously—that you really shouldn’t care about
anyone else, you should just care about yourself. ... To rebuild [class
solidarity], even if it’s in small pieces of the society, can become
very important, can change the conception of how a society ought to
function." Chomsky also gives his assessment of President Obama, whom he
says has attacked civil liberties in a way that has "gone beyond
[George W.] Bush."Video
Source: Democracy Now!
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