When people ask me about my political opinion did I not have an answer for them, because what I believe is hard to describe. I did not know that there does actually exist a term for it. <\/p>\n
Here in the U.S. people ask me, if I am Republican<\/i>, Democrat<\/i> or a Green<\/i>. I am neither of them. In Germany people asked me, if I am Conservative Christian Democrat<\/i>, Social Democrat<\/i>, Liberal<\/i>, Green<\/i>, Socialist<\/i> or a Communist<\/i>. <\/p>\n
I am neither of them.<\/b> So what am I?<\/p>\n
I just found that out a few days ago when I watched the episode titled “Activism, Anarchism, and Power<\/i>” of the educational series “Conversations with History<\/i>” by the Institute of International Studies of the University of California at Berkley.<\/p>\n
The host Harry Kreisler had a 1 hour conversation with Noam Chomsky<\/b>, linguist and political activist on March 22, 2002. I watched the video recording of it, which I downloaded from Google Video. I learned that I am a Libertarian Anarchist<\/b>. <\/p>\n This has nothing to-do with liberals in the United States, who are completely different from who call themselves “Liberals” in Germany, which is different from what the word actually means. The anarchist part of it does also not refer to chaos or lack of organization of the society. I am sure most people get it wrong when they hear it for the first time and probably think that I am a Lenin<\/i> citing and Molotov Cocktail<\/i> throwing radical or something like that. This is of course far off from the truth and not what I am.<\/p>\n I created a short 6 minutes video with excerpts from the original 1 hour conversation and added some pictures for illustration, which are blended into the video in the top left corner when appropriate. I also added some background music to make it “less dry” to consume.<\/p>\n I called the short video “Wage Slavery, Freedom and Libertarian Anarchism<\/i>” and here it is.<\/p>\n
Here is a link to the complete one hour episode<\/a>.<\/p>\n