[lbo-talk] Conspiracy - No Haiku/Correction

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Nov 28 07:23:49 PST 2003


Joseph Wanzala wrote:


>Noam Chomsky said:.....'conspiracy theory'...(is)... just one of the
>devices that's used in the American indoctrination system to prevent
>scrutiny of power.
>
>I have to say that your action is arbitrary and unfair. You gladly
>indulge a slew of gratuitous 'haikus' deriding 'conspiracy theory',
>and then you say 'enough!' to my one 'no haiku'...? I would rather
>hear how you reconcile view that 'conspiracy theory is the class
>politics of fools', with Chomsky's view articulated above....

As I read Chomsky, he's saying the epithet "conspiracy theory" is inaccurately used to dismiss serious critical analysis. He's not a conspiracist himself, in the way, e.g., you are. And I'm not going to indulge it much longer.

Doug



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