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To: Fedora

How can Chomsky be an Anarchist? He sucks off one of the biggest government t!ts around, doesn't he?


37 posted on 03/27/2005 3:54:04 PM PST by Richard Kimball (It was a joke. You know, humor. Like the funny kind. Only different.)
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To: Richard Kimball; Do not dub me shapka broham; risk
Maybe he just calls himself an anarchist to make money selling books to anarchists.

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. Chomsky’s 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.

38 posted on 03/27/2005 4:49:11 PM PST by Fedora
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To: Richard Kimball; Fedora; risk; MIT-Elephant; yankeedame; LibertarianInExile; lavrenti; Xenalyte; ...
Noam Chomsky:

Mind you, I am a LIBERTARIAN socialist!

(Hastily looks up definition of the word "libertarian" in his Merriam-Webster Dictionary.)

I never said I was a "libertarian socialist." Really, I don't know where you're getting this crap from.

41 posted on 03/27/2005 7:47:22 PM PST by Do not dub me shapka broham (Protagoras was the leading SOPHIST of his day. Think about it.)
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