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Originally posted by Cowperson@Oct 3 2004, 02:29 AM
Chomsky has declared himself a libertarian and anarchist but has defended some of the most authoritarian and murderous regimes in human history. His political philosophy is purportedly based on empowering the oppressed and toiling masses but he has contempt for ordinary people who he regards as ignorant dupes of the privileged and the powerful. He has defined the responsibility of the intellectual as the pursuit of truth and the exposure of lies, but has supported the regimes he admires by suppressing the truth and perpetrating falsehoods. He has endorsed universal moral principles but has only applied them to Western liberal democracies, while continuing to rationalize the crimes of his own political favorites. He is a mandarin who denounces mandarins. When caught out making culpably irresponsible misjudgments, as he was over Cambodia and Sudan, he has never admitted he was wrong.
That about sums things up.
http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/...03/chomsky.htm
On a sidenote, I wonder if Flame of Liberty thinks Chomsky is Libertarian?
Cowperson
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I certainly do not. He is as far from being a libertarian as they come.
However, I didnt know he declared himself a libertarian. I`ve argued many times that libertarian does not equal anarchist (but I am not professor of linguistics and semantics so what do I know).
In the article you posted, it says that Chomsky declared himself libertarian socialist. I said it before and I`m saying it again - libertarian socialist is logical contradiction, like dry water. It looks like holding contradictory views is not a problem for Chomsky, not only that, he`s got no problem declaring that only he and his followers are the ones who see the truth.