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 (DIR) Post #Aj5zj40IzqP1jUf01A by lawas@mastodon.social
       2024-06-19T19:22:20Z
       
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       That Jacobin article on #NoamChomsky was hot garbage. The comparisons to #Marx are especially bizarre given that #Chomsky is probably one of the more prominent anti-communist liberals out there. He’s spent his career paying the most basic lip service to Marx and then ruthlessly criticizing socialist countries with no regard for larger historical context. He actually peddles the idea that Leninism is a right-wing perversion of Marx and referred to #Marxism as an “irrational cult.”
       
 (DIR) Post #Aj5zj5EsP9eVYyU9Mu by lawas@mastodon.social
       2024-06-19T19:22:21Z
       
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       His views on the socialism and communism range from unhelpful to actively harmful. For someone who’s made a career out of being critical of the U.S. state, he’s sure spent a lot of time talking shit about the leftists who are actually trying to challenge that power. He’s just another liberal. His fairly accurate criticisms of the U.S. state fall flat when he wags his finger at revolutionaries and insists we can co-op our way to anarchism or something.
       
 (DIR) Post #Aj5zj5cH0AMqjXQppw by lawas@mastodon.social
       2024-06-19T19:22:21Z
       
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       He talks like a radical but has proved to be pretty hostile to actual radicals. In effect, he’s just prolonging the status quo. Like other prominent liberals, he actually acts as an another defense for the rule of capital by endlessly belittling and misrepresenting real left movements. #communism #socialism
       
 (DIR) Post #Aj62U8tIqOIMPNxgDw by Radical_EgoCom@mastodon.social
       2024-06-19T20:23:21Z
       
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       @lawas Chomsky is a liberal reformist who's hostile towards revolution and pacifies the revolutionary masses with his words. Genuine working-class revolutionaries, stay away from Chomsky!
       
 (DIR) Post #Aj636mWRwZfyKLhGFc by Radical_EgoCom@mastodon.social
       2024-06-19T20:30:23Z
       
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       @corq @lawas How could you possibly interpret anything I said as a good thing?
       
 (DIR) Post #Aj6Dm2mHPWdI9mPnsG by lawas@mastodon.social
       2024-06-19T22:18:51Z
       
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       @corq @Radical_EgoCom Huh? The problem is that Chomsky very obviously is NOT knowledgeable on Marxism or communism in general. His “critiques” are not based on anything meaningful. If you listen to him talk about the USSR, for example, you’ll see he employs very little “nuance” in the way he talks about socialist countries. His dishonest critiques directed at numerous revolutionary movements only serve to preserve the current ruling order. So yeah, that’s bad.