The Edward Said Memorial Lecture by Professor Noam Chomsky
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The Department of English and Comparative literature hosted the Edward Said Memorial Lecture on Global Realignments and the Prospects for a Livable World by ...

i skipped to the china part (cuz thats all i was really interested in) and jesus... by the end of that 2 minute section he is about a breath away from either falling asleep or just dying on camera. he is remarkably coherent for 94, though.

          • DivineChaos100 [none/use name]
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            2 years ago

            A hit piece is not good if it's premise is proven wrong by the author himself in the second paragraph.

            • robinn [none/use name]
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              2 years ago

              His reasons were proven wrong, explaining those reasons means nothing. Everyone knows the true intentions of imperialism are obscured, he is buying into the pretenses. What an awful response.

              • DivineChaos100 [none/use name]
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                2 years ago

                No he isn't. At that time he thought that the US is the only thing that could save the kurds from mass murder. I wonder if he would say the same today (probably not), but this is clearly a necessary bad decision on his books and saying he supports us imperialism or the occupation of syria based on this is, well, awful.

          • AbbysMuscles [she/her]
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            2 years ago

            Posting is praxis, and smugly posting about how you're a better leftist than fuckin' Chomksy is even more praxis-er actually

          • The_Dawn [fae/faer, des/pair]
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            2 years ago

            100% chance the above poster uses terms Chomsky literally invented to describe US imperialism and hegemony but apparently all of that analysis is useless, the chapo vanguard wouldve arrived at these conclusions naturally

            • aaro [they/them, she/her]
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              2 years ago

              There are literal socdems out there who have done more communist praxis than a hundred well read Hexbear Marxist lurkers. So what if he's a little lib sometimes, he's legitimately one of the single most dangerous people to America to have ever lived. Please, I beg of you, you don't have to worship him, we're just asking for your critical support for the man who was so harmful to US imperialism that he made it on to Richard Nixon's personal shit-list

              edit: The CIA thought he was dangerous too

                • aaro [they/them, she/her]
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                  2 years ago

                  I'm not calling him more dangerous to America than Mao, I'm just saying he deserves a spot in the top couple hundred. The impact of radicalization activities is the product of the degree to which one radicalizes and the number of people one radicalizes. Chomsky didn't exactly make everyone a bunch of perfect Marxists, but his reach has been colossal.

    • aaro [they/them, she/her]
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      2 years ago

      If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged. — Noam Chomsky