A Double CD with Noam Chomsky and Chumbawamba. Disc One comprises the Noam Chomsky lecture "Capital Rules"—another articulate and immediately accessible description of Corporate America's unrelenting attack on poor and working class people. From the attack on unions to the well-crafted business propaganda campaigns, Chomsky provides us with a clear picture of how US Capital is leading us down a path of a two-tiered society with islands of extreme wealth in a sea of poverty. Disc Two is Chumbawamba's best collection of live sounds “Showbusiness!”—previously only available as an expensive import. Recorded live in '94, as a benefit for Anti-Fascist Action, this presents their best material performed the way they do it best. The double CD is accompanied by a 24-page booklet, with extensive interviews with both Noam Chomsky—discussing corporate structure as private tyranny, domestic surveillance of activists, and visions for a new society—and Chumbawamba—discussing their past, politics, and anarchism.
Author
Avram Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, political activist, author, and lecturer. He is an Institute Professor and professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chomsky is credited with the creation of the theory of generative grammar, considered to be one of the most significant contributions to the field of linguistics made in the 20th century. He also helped spark the cognitive revolution in psychology through his review of B. F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior, in which he challenged the behaviorist approach to the study of behavior and language dominant in the 1950s. His naturalistic approach to the study of language has affected the philosophy of language and mind. He is also credited with the establishment of the Chomsky hierarchy, a classification of formal languages in terms of their generative power. Beginning with his critique of the Vietnam War in the 1960s, Chomsky has become more widely known for his media criticism and political activism, and for his criticism of the foreign policy of the United States and other governments. According to the Arts and Humanities Citation Index in 1992, Chomsky was cited as a source more often than any other living scholar during the 1980–1992 time period, and was the eighth-most cited scholar in any time period.
