[lbo-talk] RE: The postmodern prince

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Dec 1 19:24:36 PST 2003


Kenneth Campbell wrote:


>Doug wrote:
>
>>I admire Chomsky a lot, but things are nowhere near that
>>simple.
>
>I agree with it's not that simple.
>
>But whether the "lightning rod of our times" (Noam) made the formulation
>you are responding to, I dunno.

Chomsky has said that theory is a waste of time. He told me personally that he's sympathetic with American anti-intellectualism (as if he weren't an intellectual).

Doug



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