[lbo-talk] Re: Chomsky on Foucault

andie nachgeborenen andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com
Mon Sep 1 18:47:43 PDT 2003


Oh, Chomsky's strength is in his specicifity and his command of the facts. But whatever he has said about Marxism, his operating theory is vulgar Marxism. Nothing wrong with that: it is a pretty good theory. jks

--- "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at alexia.lis.uiuc.edu> wrote:
> This hardly does justice to what Chomsky has
> actually written, e.g., what
> he's had to say about Marxism, or his treatment of
> particular historical
> and political questions from the run-up to the
> Pacific War, through the
> vagaries of the media, to his account of elite
> divisions preceding the
> invasion of Iraq. --CGE
>
>
> On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, andie nachgeborenen wrote:
>
> > ...Chomsky can be explained to your neighbor
> because his theory is
> > vulgar Marxism, which is true at first
> approximation, but very easy to
> > understand. The rich control everything, including
> the govt. The govt
> > acts in their interest, totally amorally. Decent
> people won't fall for
> > their les and double standards. That's the theory.
> Most people in this
> > country believe it...
>
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