People forget that Communism during the 20th Century may have resulted in over 100 MILLION DEATHS from genocide, labor camps and government-induced famines. I think today's Leftists don't want to talk about that fact.
Posted on 09/06/2004 6:14:20 AM PDT by SJackson
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I recognize a good deal of Chomsky in Michael Moore's populist anti-Americanism. I speculate that Moore reads Chomsky and then translates the notions into simple pablum for the average American. It turns out that Moore has a large reading among the rank and file overseas Ameriphiles, as well. Chomsky gets wide reading among foreign elites, as well.
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1) There are zero examples of communism doing any good anywhere
2) Socialism has failed everywhere
3) Most atrocities, mass murders, starvations, and extreme human rights violations have been a direct result of communism and socialism
4) Systems ceding power to a large government with or without checks against power always fail.
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It's really much more than I care to read about or by Chomsky. On the other hand, he and his buddy Michael Moore should be aware that Bill Clinton's heart problem is common, particularly among people who think everybody else is at fault.
Dissect Chomsky? No thanks, I did worms in 9th grade biology.
I may just be cynical but I think the elitists view this as good. Fewer peasants to compete for the oxygen of the world.
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>>I may just be cynical but I think the elitists view this as good.
They dismiss it as part of progress. Like when Stalin had all his returning soldiers shot because they had seen capitalism.
Masters of terrorism and maintaining power.
For Chomsky, the world is divided into oppressor and oppressed.
That is Marxism distilled down to its base essence. "All struggles are class struggles," saith Marx. And Chomsky takes up the beat ...
http://econ161.berkeley.edu/movable_type/2003_archives/001855.html
What many of us find objectionable, however, is Chomsky's fundamental hypocrisy and dishonesty.... Chomsky's writing is meant to mislead and to distort.... He is a practitioner of the Big Lie approach to political debate: if a falsehood is stated baldly and loudly enough, it'll get by.... Here's a gem from the New Mandarins (1967): "Three times in a generation American technology has laid waste a helpless Asian country," that is, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. This is a statement that is so simplistic and dishonest one can only marvel at Chomsky's audacity in saying it. Imperial Japan, helpless? North Korea, rolling its tanks to the Pusan perimeter and coming within a whisker of conquering the peninsula, helpless? But Chomsky is smart enough to know one thing: if he puts it on the printed page, some less perceptive reader will assume it to be true, and the propaganda will have worked its.
Chomsky's big lie is based on his favorite pr role model:
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."
-- Joseph Goebbels, German Minister of Propaganda, 1933-1945
People forget that Communism during the 20th Century may have resulted in over 100 MILLION DEATHS from genocide, labor camps and government-induced famines. I think today's Leftists don't want to talk about that fact.
Long but worthwhile. Thanks for posting.
>You just described Friedrich A. Hayek's landmark book The Road to Serfdom.
I read that about a year ago....but also a bunch of books since then...(click on my screen name for the list)... I don't remember Hayek saying that - don't think the word was out yet.
dissection... i'd pay to watch a vivisection done on this POS!!!
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