Chomsky: Business Elites Are Waging a Brutal Class War in America [1]

AlterNet - November 21, 2013, This is an excerpt from the just released 2nd edition of Noam Chomsky’s OCCUPY: Class War, Rebellion and Solidarity [2], edited by Greg Ruggiero and published by Zuccotti Park Press. [3] Chris Steele interviews Chomsky.

 

The business classes are constantly fighting a bitter class war to improve their power and diminish opposition.
 

 

An article that recently came out in Rolling Stone, titled “Gangster Bankers: Too Big to Jail,” by Matt Taibbi, asserts that the government is afraid to prosecute powerful bankers, such as those running HSBC. Taibbi says that there’s “an arrestable class and an unarrestable class.”  What is your view on the current state of class war in the U.S.?

Well, there’s always a class war going on. The United States, to an unusual extent, is a business-run society, more so than others. The business classes are very class-conscious—they’re constantly fighting a bitter class war to improve their power and diminish opposition. Occasionally this is recognized.

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