“I’ll tell you the honest truth: I’m kind of simple-minded when it comes to these things. Whenever I hear a four-syllable word I get skeptical, because I want to make sure you can’t say it in monosyllables… I think: anything that’s at all understood can probably be described pretty simply. And when words like “dialectics” come along, or “hermeneutics,” and all this kind of stuff that’s supposed to be very profound, like Goering, “I reach for my revolver.”
Well, considering he went on a crusade against Marxism and especially Marxism-Leninism, that’s pretty… uh, anti-intellectual of him. Not to say plain reactionary garbage.
I haven’t read Chomsky, but it’s bizarre that he would admit to agreeing with Hermann Göring on any issue.
In that popular video of him bashing Lenin & Stalin he also proudly states that he is not afraid to side with the mainstream just like Trotsky wasn’t afraid to side with the fascists to denounce the Bolsheviks. Telling on himself big time