> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Eric Beck <ersatzdog at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> What a ridiculous figure Chomsky has become: No government likes what
> I have to say, he says as he's on the way to seek an audience with and
> give counsel to a government, one headed by a World Bank-trained
> neoliberal reformer. Why does the world's most famous anarchist seem
> to want to be consultant for states?
i've never taken his 'anarchism' seriously. i always thought he called himself libertarian for a reason: as a crack against a certain faction of the left that he despised early on. it comes out in one of his debates with foucault, where he's at pains to distinguish himself from other socialists. i've always seen that as one of those situations where chomsky took the bait because he's simply not a red.
shag
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