Alterman on Chomsky

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Jun 17 15:21:50 PDT 2002


michael pugliese wrote:


>And, another aside. E.P. Thompson, in, "The Poverty of Theory,
>" his brilliant and funny polemic against Althusserianism mentions
>that Pol Pot studied marxism in Paris in the 50's.

Zizek writes in Tarrying With the Negative:


>There is more than a contingent idiosyncrasy in the
>fact that, in both cases, the leader of the movement is an intellectual
>well skilled in the subtleties of Western culture. (Prior to becoming a
>revolutionary, Pol Pot was a professor at a French lycée in Phnom Penh,
>known for his subtle readings of Rimbaud and Mallarmé Abimael Guzman,
>"presidente Gonzalo," the leader of the Senderistas, is a philosophy
>professor whose preferred authors are Hegel and Heidegger and whose
>doctoral thesis was on Kant's theory of space.)



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