And now you know why Mao distrusted the intelligentsia.
He wins againParenti undefeated
“Manufacturing Consent”
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Manufacturing (a lower age of) consent
My preferred anticommunist turned out to be a fascist paedophile and all I got was this stupid fell for it again award.
more like academic will talk to anybody, including enemies of humanity, provided you sweeten the deal with a pocket change from a cushion
talk to anybody on their pedo island, get massages from any children, etc.
3 bucks is 3 bucks
I think it’s less about money, and more about the allure of the minor celebrity status that comes with being a “public intellectual”
This is the intellectual that the old communist movement was against. The culture of intellectualism distances them from events as non-participants where their primary interest is academic curiosity. They befriend evil people and are friendly with them in the advancement of that curiosity. It all becomes a curious puzzle to observe rather than to participate in and bring about revolution.
The intellectuals are no good. As a distinct group they are easily manipulate by the bourgeoisie by simply giving them access to anything that stimulates them intellectually, and such access is trivial to the bourgeoisie’s network of connections.
As the new movement grows in strength it will learn to see them as a problem as well.
I will however say one thing, it is possible for the proletarian state to manipulate the intellectuals just as easily as the bourgeois state. As a group they are not revolutionary, they are self-serving of their academic curiosity culture. Blow smoke up their arse or give them access to resources that allow them to blow smoke up their own arse and they can be allies, but it is transactional.
Calling someone who got arrested in anti-vietnam protests twice non-participant is curious
Ok but a lot of them were liberals, do we forget that the liberals are not our allies because they participated in a good protest? And participating in protest is something many people still do in a self-serving way to advance their personal brand. Even Keir Starmer participated in many, building his brand as a “leftist wink wink” until fucking over literally everyone.
You can’t look at Chomsky being chummy with these people and justify it with his left wing writing without acknowledging that he is using academic intellectual culture to professionally distance his emotions in order to be chummy and gain what he can from doing so for personal whatever. It’s very obviously unprincipled behaviour that puts the intellectual ahead of the leftism as the first priority.
How long was his total time in custody? Even a day? And by this act of great sacrifice, we are to forgive him for decades spent in his ivory tower shitting on actual radicals and disparaging countless activists who risked and sacrificed much more in the fight against US imperialism, spending years in prison or even losing their lives?
Chomsky has been a piece of shit keeping up false pretenses for several decades and his legacy should be regarded with contempt.
Less curious when it’s the same person who is pictured with Steve Bannon, laughing and pleased
Yeah but people can change, sometimes for the worse
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I wonder how Finkelstein is dealing with this? Finkelstein was a hardcore Maoist, but the Dengist reforms really destroyed him and his friendship with Chomsky really helped him out of his depression.
He defended Chomsky on twitter a week or two ago, saying that the evidence wasn’t very strong and that Chomsky would talk to anyone (or something like that), but his opinion might change as more evidence comes to light.
My life is much better from just ignoring anything Finkelstein says or writes that doesn’t have to do with Palestine lmao
First China betrayed him, now America betrays him 😢
I’ve said for years that Chomsky is John Hurt’s character in Snowpiercer. So, not surprised at all.
I saw a quote tweet of that picture that said ‘this must be the worst day of zei_squirrel’s life’ and I had a good 5 minute laugh at the thought.
considering miss squirrel inclinations, i doubt it comes close to 1000th worst days.
No fucking way LMAOOOOOO.
This is so outlandish it looks AI.
It’s a big club… and it turns out Chomsky is in it.
Something somebody said about the winds of history exhuming them is ringing in my ears
I think you mean exonerating, but exhuming could be good too.
https://nitter.net/DavidKlion/status/1999518890133540959
hanging out with the boys
Me, an ML who understands dialectics: I would never fall for mainstream media propaganda
Also me seeing a photo with zero context that shows someone i don’t like in a dubious situation uncovered by NYT: This is true and there is probably zero ill will and editorializing behind this.
“zero context,” uncovered by NYT," incorrect. Chomsky had an extensive history with Epstein
Aside from all of the context that we obviously do have, it might have helped if when Chomsky was asked about his association with Epstein, he didn’t say “it’s none of your business” and that the conversations were “valuable.” Maybe, if this master of media criticism (we know thanks to the book he mostly didn’t write) wanted to prevent us from falling for smears based on these “dubious” situations, he could have used his high social standing to get ahead of these stories a little bit and “set the record straight.” Well, unless the record is being set straight now, in which case it makes sense why he’d be defensive and secretive like we’ve already seen.
but i like chomsky (the anti-imperialist writer, not the language academic or academic in general) .
i do feel sad that he found the need to debase himself so
(the title is also play on bannon calling himself leninist tbh)
