“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.
like Goering, “I reach for my revolver.”
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
Not sure why he couldn’t just admit he’s ignorant and intolerant towards marxism
I feel a lot of left-leaning Americans who are anti-communist and refuse to read and understand Marx look up to him as an intellectual who isn’t Marxist which gives them comfort in their own biases. If he was honest about it, he wouldn’t be able to fulfill his role in as a CIA plant.
Here’s a really good debunk of that chompers “Lenin was right wing” vid:
And some of his absolute dogshit takes Roderic Day compiled.
What an absolute brain genius to count up the syllables in “generative grammar” and compare it to “dialectical materialism” and declare that your concept has fewer syllables and is therefore more valuable.
Mao explains dialectical-materialism in very simple terms in “On Practice”. It’s not a difficult idea. It’s only over chompers head because he wants it to be.
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His positions make a lot more sense once you find out he despises ‘Revolution’.
