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.
he is remarkably coherent for 94, though.
He really is a singular mind - no matter what you think of his politics, when he goes we really have no one to replace him who has such an impressively encyclopedic recall of the details of horrors of the US empire.
I knew a few mathematicians in their 80s and 90s who were still sharp. It's such a surreal thing to have a semi-technical conversation with someone that old that still has the mental capacity to do it. They still have speech patterns similar of someone that age, and it takes them a bit to get it out, but it's just very clear they still have a deep understanding of the topic. It made me wonder whether we assume older people are less coherent than they are due to their speech patterns, and unlike an academic them not having specific knowledge of a field to show off their mental acuity.
when he goes we really have no one to replace him who has such an impressively encyclopedic recall of the details of horrors of the US empire.
Only because he's been alive since the Mayflower landed.
I trust him to be coherent. I don’t trust him not to defend imperialism.
He never defended imperialism people here are just mad he didn't like the soviet union.
A hit piece is not good if it's premise is proven wrong by the author himself in the second paragraph.
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.
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.
Posting is praxis, and smugly posting about how you're a better leftist than fuckin' Chomksy is even more praxis-er actually
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
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
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.
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged. — Noam Chomsky
I saw his face and the word memorial in the title of the video and it made me panic a bit. Even politics aside, it's so cool to have a living titan of a field around. A lot of fields gad their fundamental developments in the 19th century or at the latest pre-WWII, so I always thought it was cool to have a foundational figure of modern linguistics still around.
Leave the old man alone! Quit sending him emails and youtube invites.
