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.

      • 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.