Posted on 07/03/2011 1:41:45 PM PDT by markomalley
Hugo Chávez has long considered Noam Chomsky one of his best friends in the west. He has basked in the renowned scholar's praise for Venezuela's socialist revolution and echoed his denunciations of US imperialism.
Venezuela's president, who hasrevealed that he has had surgery in Cuba to remove a cancerous tumour, turned one of Chomsky's books into an overnight bestseller after brandishing it during a UN speech. He hosted Chomsky in Caracas with smiles and pomp. Earlier this year Chávez even suggested Washington make Chomsky the US ambassador to Venezuela.
The president may be about to have second thoughts about that, because his favourite intellectual has now turned his guns on Chávez.
Speaking to the Observer last week, Chomsky has accused the socialist leader of amassing too much power and of making an "assault" on Venezuela's democracy.
"Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, such as fighting world war two, is an assault on democracy. You can debate whether [Venezuela's] circumstances require it: internal circumstances and the external threat of attack, that's a legitimate debate. But my own judgment in that debate is that it does not."
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GRRRRRREAT FReeper comments BUMP!
Is that what makes one an intellectual? Being able to express Marxist feeeeeeeelings in one's own words?
That's what made the MSM, et al rave about the 1960s Marxist-Alinsky street/campus revolutionary rabble as the most intelligent generation ever.
Chomsky is certainly in that category. Probably mentored lots of kids with their copies of Alinsky's "Rules For Spoiled Brats".
Like they say about Stalin.. things just got out of hand that's all. Everything is right about the system . . . .
I thought that I was the only one that knew that Chomsky is a libertarian.
Basically I believe it means they absolutely respect your unalienable right to choose.. that's right YOU! It's American as apple pie!
We name the choices from which you freely choose, say Obama and Sunstein.
First of all, Chomsky is NOT a libertarian...not a true one anyway. Secondly, he is only saying this is because Chavez is dying, and once he dies, all the crap that he did is going to come out and embarrass people who supported him. Just like when Castro dies and the people revolt and open up all the crap he did and embarrass all of the people who supported him.
It sure is easy to voluntarily decide what’s in your best interest once you have a gun pointed at your head. It shouldn’t have to take a shyster, nor even a professor of semantics, to figure that out.
Chomsky is an idiot. No population EVER submits willingly to socialism, therefore EVERY socialist government resorts to cracking down on freedoms to enforce it.
Thus does Noam Chomsky prove himself a total hypocrite.
Noam Chomsky has to choke on any sentence that has the words Democracy, Freedom, Liberty in them.
Curly vs. Shemp.
Ya gotta laugh.
Oh, the irony.
I say old boy, isn't rather odd how Chomsky is allowed to be a "Key-Note" speaker at the West Point military academy(?).
yawn
I can not, for the life of me, understand why Chomsky is considered a respected source on the left.
The man is a linguist, his specialty is language, and this main claim to fame in this field, may actually be falling down as its been in dispute for some time (its a theory about language and thinking, I'm not qualified to say if its right or wrong), either way, he has NOTHING what so ever to do with politics, what qualifies him anymore then a guy flipping burgers at a fast food joint ????????
This guy has made a pretty penny simply spewing out whatever it is leftists want to hear, he has "preached to the choir and been paid for it", the amazing thing is......he isn't even a real preacher, lol.
Well....he was a communist then...now he's a fascist.
Fascist???? He's evening will to have a strongman fascist if it means that global warming can finally be addressed.
“He’s evening will “
He’s even willing.....
What did he expect? His Venezuelan socialist paradise turned out to be a mess just as all the other ones did, and it wasn't U.S. hegemony that made it that way. Chomsky knows perfectly well what Marx meant by "internal contradictions" but he won't see it in his own political models until his nose is rubbed in it. No sympathy here.
Hilarious watching the leftists turn on each other . . . again.
Sounds like the Carr Centre agreed to pay him more than Chavez was paying him.
/snicker
Liberals say the darnedest things
Politics undoubtedly played a part in the selection. The commander of West Point is bucking for promotion and thinks that if he curries favor with the current administration he will go to the top of the list, just like they used to do in the USSR.
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