James Donald sure is prolific as Chuck0 says. Here are some anarchists on the fellow. http://lists.village.virginia.edu/listservs/spoons/anarchy-list-digest.archi ve/v01.n1347 The guy himself on his brief career as a Spart. http://catalog.com/jamesd/confess.htm Another voluble Chomsky hater is someone named Werner Cohn, http://abbc.com/aaargh/engl/opponents/cohn/cohn.html [Werner Cohn -- The Hidden Alliances of Noam Chomsky-careful, this is from a Holocaust Revisionist website! ] who I believe in the forties hung around the Oehlerites (the labor and anti-war figure Sid Lens was active in the RWL of these folks. Their main theorist wrote a book with the great title, "Earl Browder, Tool of Wall Street?") http://www.wernercohn.com/Chomsky.html "It so happens that I myself had a brush with the Marlenite organization Leninist League, as it was then called. It was, at the time, led by the veteran New York splinter-group radical George Spiro. Like all American Bolshevists in those days, Spiro used a pseudonym in the hope of warding off the FBI. (The leadership of the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party having been sent to jail in 1941, this precaution was not as fanciful as it would seem today.) When Spiro chose his "party name" he wanted to honor his (temporary, as it turned out) heroes and picked Marlen, Mar for Marx and len for Lenin.
My first experience with the Marlenites predates Chomsky's by about four years. I was fourteen in late 1940 or early 1941 when I attended a meeting in Spiro's apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. I had been invited by the Marlenite who distributed propaganda to one of the group's larger rivals, and I can't now remember whether this other group had been of the Shachtmanite or the Cannonite wing of the Trotskyists.
Spiro and his Marlenites struck me as not much different from other Trotskyists in the manner in which they conducted their business except that the group was even smaller and even further removed from the common sense of the world. They seemed to have had an even more intense conviction of being the very small elite that alone knows all the esoteric truths about capitalism, war, the class struggle, the future of humanity. It was a matter of very heavy Rechthaberei, of disputatious knowing-it-better.
When I first met Spiro he had already accomplished a considerable political journey. He had been expelled from the Communist Party and had joined the Trotskyists. He had next joined a splinter group led by Hugo Oehler and Thomas Stamm to found the Revolutionary Workers League, in opposition to the "official" Trotskyist organization. But soon thereafter he had discovered that Oehler and Stamm and in fact Trotsky himself were traitors to the working class, so he had left all these groups, with a very small band of followers in tow, to found his Leninist League and to declare World War II to be "phony." I don't think that the number of these Marlenites ever exceeded a dozen or so.
I went to see Spiro again around 1956, in the same Lower East Side apartment where the earlier meeting had taken place. He told me then that the intervening years had brought him one disappointment after another. His researches had led him to see that not only Stalin and Trotsky had been traitors to the proletariat but that Lenin had been of the same stripe. And even the writings of Marx could not withstand his careful inspection. Spiro (he had by then abandoned his pseudonym for obvious reasons) discovered that yes, old Karl Marx himself had really been nothing but an anti-Semite in disguise. When I asked him about the other Marlenites whom I had met some fifteen years earlier, Spiro revealed to me that they, too, had been unmasked by him for what they really were, a bunch of anti-Semites. (66)
Spiro was by then a mellow old man and I must say that I was shaken, not only by his madness but also because of the kernel of truth that his madness all but hid. He gave me a copy of what I take to be his last opus, Marxism and the Bolshevik State. (67) I am glad that I kept this volume. At one time in my life I owned other Marlenite literature but unfortunately I discarded it all except for that last big book.
Marxism and the Bolshevik State has 1100 closely-printed pages, divided into 78 chapters, and gives evidence of a tremendous mental energy on the part of its author. Its thesis can readily be surmised by some of the chapter headings: The Stalin-Trotsky Betrayal of the British Workers; Lenin Disrupts the Potential World Revolutionary Army and Navy; Marx's Personal and Political Insincerity; A Marxist-Ignored Phenomenon in the Ancient and Medieval Class Struggles The Jewish Scapegoat; Marxist Anti-Semitism in the United States; Marxism's Hand in Creating the Reactionary Zionist State; Marxism The Last Bulwark of Anti-Semitism and Christianity. The book denounces all known government i.e. it embraces the doctrine of malign equivalence but it also holds open the promise of a new day, when, presumably under the guidance of enlightened leaders like Spiro himself, "Mankind will attain superabundance of the fruits of its labors, will plan its own history, will gradually gain mastery over the globe..." (p. 1077)."
Finally for Chomsky and the Khmer Rouge (Sam Pawlett called this rank anti-communism) see this thesis. The Khmer Rouge Canon 1975-1979: The Standard Total Academic View on Cambodia by Sophal Ear, Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley http://www-mcnair.berkeley.edu/uga/osl/mcnair/Sophal_Ear_canon.html As well as this. http://www.tiac.net/users/hcunn/e-asia/ch-khm1-a.html
Michael Pugliese