Everything I hear him speak on marx or lenin it blows my mind how wrong he is. What really struck me was the realization that he is just a left lib Betty Shapino. Fairly intelligent/educated, but mostly Fast talking with massively oversized confidence. He will say shit about Marx that is objectively hilariously untrue, but he says it so confidently and with such professorial gravitas that people who just don’t know better just nod sagely and go “Yes of course.” Mean while this asshole goes on recod as saying “I never did understand dialectics.”
He’s also said that the fall of the USSR was the greatest victory for socialism ever, which is absolutely deranged when you consider the misery it lead to in the post-Soviet states and the countries that were supported by them.
I recently read a book written in the 70s by some American Marxist and surprise surprise Chomsky was already much hated in the Marxist circles back then.
Has Chomsky ever written at length about Marxism? The most I’ve heard him say sounds indistinct from anything a liberal would say, like that Marxism is outdated, it’s a model of 19th century capitalism that fails to analyze blah blah, and he’ll even say stuff like Marxism has the same roots as fascism, or that Marxism is like a religion. The one thing that really baffled me is one time Chomsky said Marx devised an abstract model of capitalism, and that essentially capitalism is too complex to make into an abstract model and remain scientific. That’s really perplexing that a supposed social scientist like Chomsky would say. What’s a good alternative to modeling capitalism then, Noam? Nothing? Liberalism?
Everything I hear him speak on marx or lenin it blows my mind how wrong he is. What really struck me was the realization that he is just a left lib Betty Shapino. Fairly intelligent/educated, but mostly Fast talking with massively oversized confidence. He will say shit about Marx that is objectively hilariously untrue, but he says it so confidently and with such professorial gravitas that people who just don’t know better just nod sagely and go “Yes of course.” Mean while this asshole goes on recod as saying “I never did understand dialectics.”
He’s also said that the fall of the USSR was the greatest victory for socialism ever, which is absolutely deranged when you consider the misery it lead to in the post-Soviet states and the countries that were supported by them.
Fuck Chomsky.
I recently read a book written in the 70s by some American Marxist and surprise surprise Chomsky was already much hated in the Marxist circles back then.
Has Chomsky ever written at length about Marxism? The most I’ve heard him say sounds indistinct from anything a liberal would say, like that Marxism is outdated, it’s a model of 19th century capitalism that fails to analyze blah blah, and he’ll even say stuff like Marxism has the same roots as fascism, or that Marxism is like a religion. The one thing that really baffled me is one time Chomsky said Marx devised an abstract model of capitalism, and that essentially capitalism is too complex to make into an abstract model and remain scientific. That’s really perplexing that a supposed social scientist like Chomsky would say. What’s a good alternative to modeling capitalism then, Noam? Nothing? Liberalism?
marxism idk but he talks ad nauseum about the horrors of AES
As opposed to my social libertarianism, which has no roots in settler colonialism!