During the Great Depression, which I'm old enough to remember, and when most of my family...
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Noam Chomsky:
During the Great Depression, which I'm old enough to remember, and when most of my family was unemployed working class, it was bad, much worse objectively than today. But there was an expectation that things were going to get better. There was a real sense of hopefulness. - There isn't today.
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Clip duration: 56 seconds
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Timestamp in movie: 00h 00m 00s
Uploaded: 12 December, 2020
Genres: documentary
Summary: Through interviews filmed over four years, Noam Chomsky unpacks the principles that have brought us to the crossroads of historically unprecedented inequality – tracing a half-century of policies designed to favor the most wealthy at the expense of the majority – while also looking back on his own life of activism and political participation. He provides penetrating insight into what may well be the lasting legacy of our time – the death of the middle class, and swan song of functioning democracy.
