The tea party is the 'petite bourgeoisie' face of corporate oligarchs

by Travis Gettys

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The Tea Party is just the popular face of corporate power in the United States, says political philosopher Noam Chomsky.
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"I wouldn't call them revolutionary," Chomsky said, dismissing a suggestion that the conservative political faction had anarchist characteristics.
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He told Radio VR during an interview posted online last week that he agreed with the conservative political analyst Norman Ornstein's characterization of the Tea Party.
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"He just described them as a radical insurgency opposed to rationality, to political compromise, to participation to a parliamentary system - in fact, with no positive goals themselves," Chomsky said.

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"They're in favor of having the population subordinated to concentrated private power, which should have no limits," Chomsky said. "When they call themselves anti-government, that means they don't want government to limit the capacity of concentrated private power to dominate the society. That's very far from any anarchism."
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Noam Chomsky: The tea party is the 'petite bourgeoisie' face of corporate oligarchs