Noam Chomsky On Democracy and The Common Good Part 1

Description: Author and professor of linguistics at MIT Noam Chomsky discusses democracy and the "common good" with David Barsamian. The interview details the historical roots of democratic rights -- from Aristotle to the US Constitutional Convention -- and questions the role of today's private corporations that want to "undermine democratic functioning but ensure that there will be a powerful state to subsidize them," as Chomsky puts it.