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If Chomsky had his way you and all your Freeper friends would be loaded onto boxcars and moved to "re-education" centers. Chomsky has defended communists all his life, even lying about them when he knew the murderous truth (like the Killing Fields of the Kymer Rouge).

Chomsky bumparooni!

KC: If Chomsky had his way you and all your Freeper friends would be loaded onto boxcars and moved to "re-education" centers. Chomsky has defended communists all his life, even lying about them when he knew the murderous truth (like the Killing Fields of the Kymer Rouge).

This is an outrageous lie.

I can only conclude you are entirely unfamiliar with his early and vehement condemnations of the Khmer Rouge.

Chomsky was never a friend of communism. He never really comes right out and identifies with any specific political party or movement but my extensive readings of his work makes me think he is largely a democratic socialist with strongly libertarian and human rights concerns. Sort of like the Danes or Swedes but with more rights and liberties.

I do think that Chomsky only does well in defining what he doesn't like and doesn't want. His failure to have a positive agenda toward anything is why he can never be more than a critic. He is, on the whole, unrelentingly negative. This is why he can never be a major political thinker but only a gadfly of the Left. A persistent and somewhat influential gadfly but no more. His influence will scarcely outlive him. Of course, when he's finally gone, the Left will become even more incoherent and mindlessly hateful. Maybe that will be an improvement, from a conservative perspective. I'm not too sure.

Benrand: Yes, he digs out "little tid-bits of history"...too bad they are always surrounded by lies and shrill invective. I have tried to read CHimpsky, but he's such a liar and is ignorant of economics and politics. ANd he's a liar.

You underestimate him. He didn't make Johnson's enemies list by being an incompetent. He has been a thorn in the side of the Left and Right for decades. As I mentioned before, he is unrelentingly critical. I wonder if you've ever read his material on JFK or Carter or Clinton. It's pretty choice material.