10-11-2012, 05:37 AM
Magda,
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[/URL]What else does one call Pol Pot? He sure as heck was not an anarchist.
He was an extreme communist who wanted to forge a Marxist state overnight.
Everyone needs to read Distortions at Fourth Hand to see how Chomsky defended him.
(BTW, here is the link to that piece: http://www.chomsky.info/articles/19770625.htm. It still is kind of shocking to read.)
Chomsky also went to Hanoi and praised "socialism" there also.
He then attacked George Kennan for proposing to attack communist states in the Far East, when in fact, he was actually saying the opposite: that the US should not fight wars against communist states there since they posed no real danger to America. Kennan was one of the first Americans to understand that the Domino Theory was a bunch of crap. And that the Cold Warriors under Truman had completely distorted his Long Telegram.
Noam Chomsky is not an anarchist at all. And he is not an anti communist in any particular case. He and Cockburn went out of their way to defend any communist regime anywhere no matter how bad they were.
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[/URL]What else does one call Pol Pot? He sure as heck was not an anarchist.
He was an extreme communist who wanted to forge a Marxist state overnight.
Everyone needs to read Distortions at Fourth Hand to see how Chomsky defended him.
(BTW, here is the link to that piece: http://www.chomsky.info/articles/19770625.htm. It still is kind of shocking to read.)
Chomsky also went to Hanoi and praised "socialism" there also.
He then attacked George Kennan for proposing to attack communist states in the Far East, when in fact, he was actually saying the opposite: that the US should not fight wars against communist states there since they posed no real danger to America. Kennan was one of the first Americans to understand that the Domino Theory was a bunch of crap. And that the Cold Warriors under Truman had completely distorted his Long Telegram.
Noam Chomsky is not an anarchist at all. And he is not an anti communist in any particular case. He and Cockburn went out of their way to defend any communist regime anywhere no matter how bad they were.