Obama is not a left-winger, actually, he's to the right of the Clintons, and he's certainly to the right of me. If I had to pick someone I could compare myself to ideologically it would be Liz Warren, or maybe Robert Reich.

Now Chomsky, HE's a left-winger, a real left-winger. He's as far to my left as TB is to my right. Too far left for me.

I know Chomsky calls himself a Libertarian Socialist, a term which may sound contradictory to modern conservatives, but which a century ago would have been instantly accepted as Classical Anarchist.

A Classical Anarchist is someone who is as opposed to Capitalism as he is to the State. He believes all forms of human organization should be democratic, that is, companies would be owned by the workers, who would own all the stock and vote on company policy and hire professional managers to actually run the firms. All organizations would be co-ops, like farm co-ops today, or the fabulously successful and efficient Cuban Social Club medical cooperatives that handled health insurance and even operated hospitals in early XXth century Tampa. It was a model imported from the Europe of the XIXth century.

We know this system works on a small scale, although whether it could totally replace the modern corporation is questionable, in my opinion.

Of course, it is hard to discuss the nuances of the political spectrum with modern American conservatives, who seem to think there are only two poles on the political axis, "freedom" and Communism, with nothing in between.