Noam Chomsky on courses of intellectual self-defence

Short video clip in which Chomsky discusses the role of grassroots organisers in relation to the 'big names' of history and the need to develop "courses of intellectual self defence". Taken from the 1992 documentary "Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky and the Media".

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