Chomsky shows the consistent defense of US power against the spontaneous and the insurrectionary forces that seek freedom. Whether allied to push policy in Vietnam, approve as Gabriel Jackson's book did the clampdown on Spanish and Catalan anarchists by Stalinists during that civil war, or prop up the US military in Central America and the Middle East, this is consistent. They show the trajectory of the liberal elite's capitulation to the political and corporate interests in power. He's a pragmatic as well as intellectual thinker, and many of the less formal interviews in the latter pages, with Irish activist Kevin Doyle, scholar Ziga Vodovnik (I reviewed his " Living Spirit of Revolt"), and Pateman capture for me a more avuncular, warmer presence than the scholarship accumulated in some lectures.
Pateman in his own interview explores this and shows how some advancement in Chomsky's view of the state in order to contain dangerous tendencies against progressive activism might be justified for the future advance of leader-free or consensual practices of liberty. He reminds us he's a fellow traveler, for anarcho-syndicalism and left-libertarian attitudes overlap along the continuum, with libertarian communist, anti-statist, and even cooperation (as in voting on crucial referenda, supporting alternative candidates, and local policies) with the state.
As Barry Pateman, Emma Goldman archivist, notes in introducing these eleven pieces (red cover above, AK Press mostly interviews and lectures) from 1969-2004, while some repetition occurs, this 2005 anthology offers a sustained explanation by Noam Chomsky of the philosophy and practice of anarchism.
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