RIP Noam Chomsky .... not quite

[gordondaviesmoustache]

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The last one doesn’t make sense.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

The last one doesn’t make sense.

Explain...

 

[Postman Pep]

The last one doesn’t make sense.

2008 bailout?

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Explain...

How can I explain why it doesn’t make sense?! :-)

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

2008 bailout?

That makes sense tbf.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

How can I explain why it doesn’t make sense?! :-)

What part of it do you take issue with?

[Maximum] extent possible. That makes sense doesn't it?

If your issue is that profits can only be private and you think he should have used "surplus" then it's a bit pedantic.

 

[Ballymagash Blue]

Schrodinger’s Chomsky

 

[urban genie]

Not dead apparently, or may be, or is


but seems not

 

[KS55]

If he had a great intellect, it was completely fucking wasted. A man of total dogmatism who couldn't see the other side of the argument. But polemicism seems to be what passes for political e thought these days.

Well said. There has been far too much worship of Chomsky in recent years. For all the analysis, he always came up with the same Marxist answer. So his solution to the war in Ukraine was simple: give in to Putin. This from a man who derided power structures; well, capitalist power structures anyway.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

A man of intelligence for sure but always lets his personal political dogmatism get in the way, and for that reason I’ve never been able to enjoy his writing.

The likes of Naomi Klein followed the same template.