>For the far left, there’s no real difference between any politician to the right of Rosa Luxemburg
I think that's the point a lot of people were missing. From Chomsky's perspective, normie political opinions are basically as bad as Naziism. He's been forced to hang out with horribly immoral people his whole life, including at MIT where colleagues of his did research for the DOD. So, what's wrong with hanging out with Epstein?
This is a rather uncharitable interpretation of Chomsky i'd say. For the right wing interlocutors out there: if you ever feel uncomfortable about nebulous progressive lobby groups influencing local elections against the wish of the voters, and wish for a more organic, door-to-door engagement with the citizens: your vision of democracy is already very close to Chomsky's!
>For the far left, there’s no real difference between any politician to the right of Rosa Luxemburg
I think that's the point a lot of people were missing. From Chomsky's perspective, normie political opinions are basically as bad as Naziism. He's been forced to hang out with horribly immoral people his whole life, including at MIT where colleagues of his did research for the DOD. So, what's wrong with hanging out with Epstein?
Where have I heard this before? 🤔 😉
https://edokwin.substack.com/p/progressives-must-apologize-before
This is a rather uncharitable interpretation of Chomsky i'd say. For the right wing interlocutors out there: if you ever feel uncomfortable about nebulous progressive lobby groups influencing local elections against the wish of the voters, and wish for a more organic, door-to-door engagement with the citizens: your vision of democracy is already very close to Chomsky's!
The left has a tendency to project what they want to do onto the right, and then doing it.
I always found a lot to disagree with in Chomskys works but he was always challenging 😥