• Homestar440 [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Chomsky was a big part of my radicalization, I loved how authoritatively he could just wreck American propaganda on any subject, but in his Q and As, he'd naturally get the question, "OK, I get it, we live in a giant lie, and capitalism is going to kill us all, what do we do?" and his reply was always basically, "just do whatever, no ones stopping you, organize and stuff, that's how it's worked before." That always rubbed me the wrong way, but I thought it was a problem with me, old Chomskers couldn't be giving bad or even incoherent advice, surely he must be correct. I'm starting to consider the idea that, no, what was happening there was his rejection of the prescriptions of Marx, Lenin and their ilk left him with absolutely nothing to offer, and these poor people, having just been rightly convinced that everything they knew about America and the world is a lie, and innocent people are dying literally right now, desperately ask, "what can I do to change this terrible situation," and be told, "organize and stuff, it's easy, it's actually embarrassing that you asked me."

    Anyway, what was goin on with V-sauce or whatever?