Reexamining History with Chomsky: The Marshall Plan
Reexamining History with Noam Chomsky: The Marshall Plan
The following video is a continuation of our series “Re-examining
History”, which features an interview that we held with Prof. Noam
Chomsky. Prof Chomsky will focus on historical developments that seldom,
if at all, appear or are discussed in Western mainstream historical
literature.
The following questions will be addressed in this video:
- Was the Marshall plan a success or failure?
- What sections of US & German society profited from the Marshall plan?
Noam Chomsky: “There was a big problem at the time, a major problem, of
industrial overproduction. The US had a big surplus of industrial
production, and the world just didn’t have markets. The world was
virtually devastated by the war. So part of the attempt to create
markets for US excess production was what I described before, ensuring
that the former colonial areas would provide dollars to Europe, so they
could purchase US industrial production, called triangular trade
programs.”
