Noam Chomsky and his critics

In the aftermath of September 11th, certain sectors of the US left buckled under ruling class pressure and turned against Noam Chomsky. His uncompromising anti-imperialism might have been acceptable during the 1980s when the Sandinistas were under Washington's gun, but in today's repressive at

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Title: RE: [PEN-L:29451] Noam Chomsky and his critics It's about time that I faced an easy choice, choosing between Chomsky & Hitchens. Among other things, the latter is often incoherent. As someone said, when Hitchens hears the word "fascist," he drops all of his soc

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Title: RE: [PEN-L:29451] Noam Chomsky and his critics I finally finished this one and have a comment: Louis Proyect writes:>Chomsky leaned at early date toward the Israel kibbutz as some kind of "socialist experiment", long after the colonization intentions of the settle

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>Devine, James wrote: > >>One of the first articles I read by Chomsky was in the San >>Francisco-based journal SOCIALIST REVOLUTION (now called "Socialist >>Review," if it still exists) > >It's morph'd into Radical Society >, whose >premier

Re: RE: Noam Chomsky and his critics

Devine, James wrote: >One of the first articles I read by Chomsky was in the San >Francisco-based journal SOCIALIST REVOLUTION (now called "Socialist >Review," if it still exists) It's morph'd into Radical Society , whose premiere issue i

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Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >[clip] > > No mass political party and movement = no theory and no strategy. > Activism for the sake of activism, lacking in theory and strategy, is > inevitable under the current conditions of TINA. A ghostly presence in marxist practice ( over the last 35 years has b