no theory, sez Chomsky

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Dec 8 14:22:10 PST 2001


Justin Schwartz wrote:


>However, Chomsky has a theory in a broad sense--not the quantum
>mechanics sense--it is, although he doesn't recognize it as such,
>vulgar Marxism. The power of Chomsky's critiques of the media and US
>foreign policy show just how string a theory vulgar Marxism is. It
>probably explans about 85% of the explicable variance.

Bob Fitch puts it higher - "Vulgar Marxism explains about 90% of what goes on in the world."



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