• volkvulture [none/use name]
      2·
      4 years ago

      Chomsky's not a "baby leftist" though, he's just an anti-communist liberal with some light criticism of American foreign policy

        • volkvulture [none/use name]
          1·
          4 years ago

          leave what? we aren't providing hot meals here or newfangled tech sector jobs or mainstream pop cultural absolution, we can only provide different ways of thinking & processing information with a larger historical justification

          outside of that, liberalism will continue be the order of the day in the American mind palace at least. And it unfortunately remains the primary touchstone for all of those who think more than 3 seconds about politics & political potentialities

      • Pezevenk [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Wouldn't really call it "light". At least that's not how it comes off in his books.

        • volkvulture [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          Chomsky worked at MIT on the same grants & in the same milieu of State Department/MIC nexus intellectuals & researchers as the ones he's trying to dog on

          To hear Chomsky talk about Lenin in the way he does sounds just as Russophobic & ignorant to alternatives as what Noam tries to criticize neocons for

          • Pezevenk [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            I know he worked with these people, I am talking about the critique of US foreign policy, which is not "light" or whatever.

            • volkvulture [none/use name]
              1·
              4 years ago

              yes, it is light

              Chomsky doesn't want American military reach to contract, he just wants it to be "less" openly & brazenly expansionist