Chomsky on domestic issues is actually really great, I still recommend Manufacturing Consent to people. It’s just when he starts talking about AES that it all falls apart
Some people say that stuff about Parenti, but when he was writing, China was a little different.
Turns out Chomsky was secretly a Stalinist this whole time
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Side note: it’s really surprising finding out he has even 1 based take.
I don’t get it. In this book, he specifically mentions how Afghans said the Soviets treated them much better than Americans. He actually says positive things about the USSR in this book.
Some people are just weirdos.
Well that’s a difference from 100 trillion killed Stalin secret police totalitarianism Chernobyl etc
He has suggested that he was the minor author of this book. He gets all the credit because of that documentary and because he’s so well known (possibly because the bourgeoisie would rather people read Chomsky than any Marxist). But Herman may have written this section, and the better part of the book. It’s hard to know, but given Chomsky’s record…
He’s got more than that. He was pretty good on Ukraine and I read his book ‘manufacturing consent’ it was mostly based (pointing out hypocrisy in coverage of Latin American elections, fake stuff blamed on the soviets, a relatively decent take on Polpot as far as I could tell, and he clearly hated the the Soviet invasion of Afganistán, but you’d be hard pressed to find someone who really supports it)
Yeah, but his take on Pol Pot is weird
Everything related to Pol Pot is weird.
I was left kinda confused. I think his point was that the American bombing of Cambodia was worse and led to polpot coming to power, but more complicated. Maybe?
Honestly the quote is kind of confusing, I can’t read it without reading “American exceptionalism doesn’t exist.” Am I interpreting it wrong?
Americans are exceptional though.
Exceptional at being racist.
Exceptional at driving mobility scooters.
Exceptional at doing war crimes.
Exceptional at being annoying hypocrites.
And more. Truly an exceptional people.
I probably should have left the context. He meant in regards to the USA being a benevolent empire.
