Posted on 03/27/2005 1:18:58 PM PST by SmithL
Thousands of like-minded souls with a taste for state smashing, patriarchy toppling, government defying, feminism, punk, radical politics and children's books with titles like "Herb, the Vegetarian Dragon" came out in force for the 10th Annual Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair.
They snatched up books by Noam Chomsky and Emma Goldman, greeted old friends, bought "Bomb the mall" T-shirts and DVDs about "imperial democracy" and happily lay in the sunshine with their anarchist dogs and wild-plant food pamphlets.
By midafternoon, the San Francisco County Fair Building and the lawn outside were packed with everyone from bookish brainiacs leafing through dense texts to green-haired punks with pierced septums and a distinctive, musky scent.
"This is Christmas," said Eileen Rose, 43, hands full of books. "The hardest thing about coming here is that there's so much of what I feel is critical tools to have."
She showed a friend her finds, including "Anarchism and Other Essays" by Emma Goldman and a "F -- your fascist beauty standards" patch.
Indeed, the F-word was especially popular at the fair: "You don't have to f -- people over to survive" and "F -- all boy bands" were among the slogans on the ubiquitous T-shirts, pins and patches. Hungry radicals -- who arrived from all over the country -- were salivating as they wandered among CDs and books, from Woody Guthrie's "Struggle" and Malcolm X's speeches to "The Enemy Is Middle Class" and "No Gods No Masters."
The book fair has grown exponentially since a small group of far lefties and San Francisco's Bound Together Anarchist Collective Book Store staged the first one in 1995.
This year, 75 vendors from near and far poured into town for the event. The slate of speakers included graphic artist Eric Drooker, feminist activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and the star...
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And of course you already have links to http://antichomsky.blogspot.com/ there.
And no doubt you've seen http://www.wernercohn.com/Chomsky.html (Partners in Hate). Chomsky is everywhere on the left and the hard right. His skeptical ideas take root among people who question the triumph of western liberal democracy. The irony is that he sees himself as the ultimate liberal.
If you check the last few pages of that thread, you'll also find articles written by Phyllis Chesler and Alan Dershowitz, among other more liberal critics of Chomsky's pseudo-scholarship.
The most interesting part about that thread though, is the fact that hardly any Chomsky acolytes have come forward to defend their guru.
Go figure.
f---ing A, man.
I wish I could figure out a way to help these fools part with their money.
Maybe sell them a F*** Capitalism tee.
Would it be rude to wish that SF slips into the Pacific during the next earthquake?
Its not that hard.
Write a phony book about PNAC and the "conspiracy", make up lots of crazy stuff involving Bush, Rove, Cheney and Haliburton, then sell it to them.
These guys are conspiracy obsessed nuts who will believe anything about the GOP, no matter how ludicrous is sounds, and they will pay money for anything that reinforces their thinking, you can make patches, books, nothing is to absurd that you can't milk them out of cash (what little they have).
How 'bout a McDonald's McAnarchwich?
Tell them the competition is owned by Haliburton, then it'll sell.
I heard they had a special on the "We don't like soap" T-Shirts.
"Question authority!"
"Sez you!"
Which tells me right there that Ms. Whateverhernameis is probably not all that close to even the minimal "fascist beauty standards".
Chomsky acolyte:
Infidels! The Universal Grammar will yet triumph over capitalist linguistic oppression!
How can Chomsky be an Anarchist? He sucks off one of the biggest government t!ts around, doesn't he?
Here's a Marxist article analyzing and criticizing Chomsky's "anarchism"--it's funny watching Marxists and anarchists fight to decide who gets to define the party line:
Heiko Khoo, "Noam Chomsky and Marxism: On the roots of modern authoritarianism" Pt. 1
Although one finds very little written by Chomsky on Lenin or Trotsky, it is impossible not to be struck by how boldly Chomsky makes sweeping (and false) assertions concerning their ideas and actions. Chomsky, as we shall see, considers Lenin and Trotsky as both founders and supporters of the system of tyranny, which Marxists define as Stalinism. Chomskys contemptuous dismissal of Leninism, is based either on intellectual ignorance or deliberate falsification, and appears to emanate almost exclusively from secondary sources.
Heiko Khoo, "Noam Chomsky and Marxism: On the roots of modern authoritarianism" Pt. 2
Chomsky has made a name for himself and is admired by many on the left. Undoubtedly he has written many articles and books, and made many speeches, that provide some useful information. However, when it comes to analyzing the tasks the working class is facing he falls into a trap. He accepts many ideas about Marxism and the Russian revolution that are completely false. By doing this he does a disservice to himself and to the workers and the youth of the world who are looking for a way out of the present nightmare that capitalist society has created. He has every right to hold his views. No genuine socialist or communist would deny this. What he does not have the right to do is to distort and even falsify what genuine Marxism stands for. If he does this he is only helping the enemies of genuine socialism. The capitalist historians, the capitalist media, are constantly working away at trying to confuse the minds of millions of workers and youth. Our task is to combat all this.
Funny! It's interesting to see others criticizing Chomsky using the same terms as David Horowitz would, only on different issues.
The holes in Chomsky's defense appear to be apparent no matter what angle you're looking at him from, except from his own angle looking in the mirror.
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