Chomsky whines about the USSR and calls its collapse "a win for the left". Absolutely unbelievable. Of course he has nothing to say about 1993 protests or the fact that the majority of Russians who experienced life in the USSR want it back.

Zizek calls China a "bad model for the left". Of course no actual socialist experiment is ever good enough for the ivory tower intellectual. Even worse, he keeps saying he hopes that China will liberalize its government. So fuck the DotP, lets just give away power to the capitalists, because that is literally what will happen in a liberal democracy, and he knows it.

        • read_freire [they/them]
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          4 years ago

          scroll down

          there are truly no good folks involved in balkanization. slobo wasn’t as bad as the west propagandized him to be (he’s far from the worst yugo leader involved, in fact), but someone who let the reactionary ultranationalist hawks run wild the way he did deserves absolutely no praise from the left

          you don't need to stan slobo to be anti-fucking-nato

            • read_freire [they/them]
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              4 years ago

              no doubt

              greenwald also stanned slobo too if i remember right, at least w/ parenti you know it's just a misguided vehicle for very deserved nato/propaganda criticism instead of greenwald's hack-contrarianism

              and slobo absolutely doesn't deserve his propagandized rep. there's a particularly famous speech he made on serbian independence day just as shit was escalating (91 or 92 if I remember right) where he called for yugo unity and absolutely put the serbian crowd to sleep by not calling for croat and albanian blood.

              that said, he wasn't great.

            • DivineChaos100 [none/use name]
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              4 years ago

              Yeah, but if Chomsky has a bad take he should be fucking ostracized and when Parenti stans people who committed genocide he's just muh broken clock.