RIP Noam Chomsky .... not quite

[Prestwich_Blue]

Dogmatism you say ;-)

I like someone who makes me think, not someone who tells me what to think. You should try thinking for yourself sometimes, instead of spouting slogans.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

Doesn't alter my opinion of him.

He possessed genius intellect. He was highly influential in his field of linguistics.

It's not arguable that he was a great intellect or that he left an indelible mark on the world..

Your opinion of him comes from a place of insecurity.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

I bet people calling him ‘Norm’ must have really got on his tits.

 

[Postman Pep]

I like someone who makes me think, not someone who tells me what to think. You should try thinking for yourself sometimes, instead of spouting slogans.

Every accusation is a confession. 10/10 no notes.

 

[Kinkybyname]

I bet people calling him ‘Norm’ must have really got on his tits.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

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I used to have a character that I used to perform to my son when he was between the ages of 4 and 6. He was called Norman Normington. And he was very normal. And boring. And I sometimes used to threaten my lad that I’d turn into Norman Normington if he didn’t behave himself.

It was pretty effective tbf.

 

[oldhamblue]

Chomsky abided by what one might call a plain-speaking Marxism, even though he generally decried such labels. At the core of it was a simple proposition: in any modern market society, political power flows from economic power, and economic power rests in the hands of the holders of capital. It follows that politics will be dominated by these holders of capital, and they will use their considerable resources to bend the political process to their own ends. And what are these ends? He liked to quote Adam Smith, whom he took to be one of the most perceptive theorists of capitalism: the holders of wealth, Smith observed, follow “the vile maxim of the masters of mankind: all for ourselves, and nothing for other people.” This “vile maxim,” Chomsky pointed out, ought to be the anchor for any political analysis of modern society.

This amounted to a simple and basic theory of the state, both for analyzing domestic affairs and also foreign policy. In both domains, we should expect to find that parties, organizations, and institutions are shaped and reshaped around the economic interests of the ruling class, not the general public. And these interests he took to be the overriding prioritization of profit above all else, whatever its cost — human and environmental.

Let’s Celebrate Noam Chomsky, the Intellectual and Moral Giant

More than any other thinker in the postwar era, Noam Chomsky has embodied Karl Marx’s favorite dictum: “nothing human is alien to me.”

jacobin.com

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[bluethrunthru]

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I'll wait for Wikipedia to confirm it

His Mrs said he is alive to is the jury out?

Noam Chomsky’s Wife Denies the Writer’s Death - teleSUR English

Valeria Wasserman, his wife since 2014, denied the news, stating that he is sick, however he HAS NOT DIED.

www.telesurenglish.net

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Chomsky abided by what one might call a plain-speaking Marxism, even though he generally decried such labels. At the core of it was a simple proposition: in any modern market society, political power flows from economic power, and economic power rests in the hands of the holders of capital. It follows that politics will be dominated by these holders of capital, and they will use their considerable resources to bend the political process to their own ends. And what are these ends? He liked to quote Adam Smith, whom he took to be one of the most perceptive theorists of capitalism: the holders of wealth, Smith observed, follow “the vile maxim of the masters of mankind: all for ourselves, and nothing for other people.” This “vile maxim,” Chomsky pointed out, ought to be the anchor for any political analysis of modern society.

This amounted to a simple and basic theory of the state, both for analyzing domestic affairs and also foreign policy. In both domains, we should expect to find that parties, organizations, and institutions are shaped and reshaped around the economic interests of the ruling class, not the general public. And these interests he took to be the overriding prioritization of profit above all else, whatever its cost — human and environmental.

Let’s Celebrate Noam Chomsky, the Intellectual and Moral Giant

More than any other thinker in the postwar era, Noam Chomsky has embodied Karl Marx’s favorite dictum: “nothing human is alien to me.”

jacobin.com

There's nothing new or revelatory in that though is there? It's Marxism 101 that economic power lies with the holders of capital or rentier class.

He only seemed to see the problems, not the solutions. A polemicist not a philosopher.