Alterman on Chomsky

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Jun 19 06:59:16 PDT 2002


Chip Berlet wrote:


>Chomsky apparently knew only one side of Serge Thion. And it is clear that
>Thion abused the relationship, a fact that Chomsky stubbornly refuses to
>address.

All this touches on Chomsky's bias against theory. To him, ideas and arguments stand on their own merits. How they are received, the uses to which they are put, the ideological contexts they circulate in - things like that don't really interest him. And because some creepy people appropriate, even publish, his writing, he ends up seriously discredited.

Doug



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