@lawas@mastodon.social
That Jacobin article on #NoamChomsky was hot garbage.
The comparisons to #Marx are especially bizarre given that #Chomsky is probably one of the more prominent anti-communist liberals out there. He’s spent his career paying the most basic lip service to Marx and then ruthlessly criticizing socialist countries with no regard for larger historical context. He actually peddles the idea that Leninism is a right-wing perversion of Marx and referred to #Marxism as an “irrational cult.”
His views on the socialism and communism range from unhelpful to actively harmful. For someone who’s made a career out of being critical of the U.S. state, he’s sure spent a lot of time talking shit about the leftists who are actually trying to challenge that power.
He’s just another liberal. His fairly accurate criticisms of the U.S. state fall flat when he wags his finger at revolutionaries and insists we can co-op our way to anarchism or something.
He talks like a radical but has proved to be pretty hostile to actual radicals. In effect, he’s just prolonging the status quo. Like other prominent liberals, he actually acts as an another defense for the rule of capital by endlessly belittling and misrepresenting real left movements. #communism #socialism
