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Hello. This is the first time I post on Lemmygrad. I've been wondering about him for a while now. Everyone seems to have a different opinion—some call him an anti-imperialist anarchist, others don't—and since I can't get this past the Reddit filters, I figured I'd ask here. I wonder what do people think when they hear his name.

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[–] darkernations@lemmygrad.ml 32 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)
  1. https://redsails.org/on-chomsky/
  2. https://dashthered.medium.com/the-anti-chomsk%C3%BFng-66dcd8224729
  3. https://redsails.org/white-supremacy-and-magic-paper/
  4. https://www.greanvillepost.com/2020/06/03/the-mainstream-and-the-margins-noam-chomsky-vs-michael-parenti/

The high perch from which Chomsky tells us how free we are was likely only vacant because state agents murdered all consequential Black leaders and squashed every other left-wing movement. In the ensuing years, white guys writing books supplanted visionaries with megaphones while the prison population grew

TLDR: the most lenient reading of Chomsky was that he was able to highlight some of the symptoms of the US empire but has no understanding of the pathophysiology or treatment. This would have to then ignore all the times he went to bat for imperialism, and despite portaying himself as a generalist for knowledge was willfully obtuse about even understanding dialectial materialism from the perspective of his supposed enemy, the tyrannical marxist-leninist. Not to mention all the times he denigrated the global south struggles against imperialism. Ie typical western liberal.