Greg Grandin - “Tunnel focused on geopolitics and on crimes of state, Chomsky apparently didn’t see what others saw clearly: that Epstein was a pimp servicing a privatized global aristocracy, and that his victims were children.”
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/noam-chomsky-jeffrey-epstein-emails/ >From FB - As a 60-year-old African American from a working-class background, Chomsky was among the first intellectuals to give my outrage a shape and a structure, and I will forever be grateful to him for that. But as I deepened my reading and accumulated an understanding of Malcolm X, Huey Newton and Paul Robeson that went beyond their image and martyrdom, and introduced myself to Fanon, Edward Said, George Jackson, Amilcar Cabral, and Fred Hampton (whose funeral Chomsky attended), the more Chomsky's limitations as a transformational figure became clear. His denunciations of Marxism, his opposition to BDS, his promotion of lesser-evilism in the 2016 and 2020 elections are all badges of dishonor. But more even than a lack of honor, his relationship with Epstein, and that photo with Bannon, suggest that he also lacked GRACE, and the MORAL ambition--he surely had an intlectual motor--that separates the wheat from the chaff in a revolutionary context. That a scholar as esteemed as *Greg Grandin* <https://www.facebook.com/greg.grandin1?__cft__%5b0%5d=AZbTFLGK7BCBX4vE1FLD0-jSNHaSpJHic7Ix9kiJS3YCqFVad9jHavafBoKOGBQ5AYcCBZzuDScwV7nsED8rQyqnlgLr77q7CWZ3kQoyD7grUveIIVd-cA44jPMzKATP9ADoCvynrd6PT9nJAttCFBRbChJfw4x8JPFtSM0OV4BJrbIfgQniRwGCD04pdcOFqh8&__tn__=R-R> would defend him is certainly a mark in his favor but it is hard to imagine Howard Zinn, Said, Assata Shakur or David Gilbert spending time, cheerfully, in the company of a known pedophile, Mossad asset, and half-wit eugenicists. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#39729): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/39729 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/116798181/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
