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When I hear his name, I think about how his influence turned my friend from an actual communist into a vaguely left anarchist (an "anarcho-syndicalist" like Chomsky, which in my opinion is a functionally meaningless term in our social context) who believes state department propaganda and opposes any successful model for socialism to the point that they just support liberalism. Intellectuals like him that support the status quo (even if Chomsky might believe he doesn't) divert potentially revolutionary energy away from effective action and teach people seeking information and hope after finding class consciousness that individual action is the best they can do.
Oh, poor your friend.