[lbo-talk] The Soviet Union Versus Socialism - Noam Chomsky

[Ismail Lagardien]

Apologies if this is "old news".... Always interested in what people on the two 
lists (Marxism & LBO) think about some of the things I am reading.

In this article, which was written close to the end of the cold war, Noam 
Chomsky argues against the association of socialism with Bolshevism. 

"When the world’s two great propaganda systems agree on some doctrine, it 
requires some intellectual effort to escape its shackles. One such doctrine is 
that the society created by Lenin and Trotsky and molded further by Stalin and 
his successors has some relation to socialism in some meaningful or historically 
accurate sense of this concept. In fact, if there is a relation, it is the 
relation of contradiction."

Source: 
http://liberationfrequency.tumblr.com/post/5069389451/the-soviet-union-versus-socialism-noam-chomsky 

 

Ismail Lagardien
Department of Politics and Public Administration

Elon University
Elon, NC
27244

Tel: +1(612) 227-5037 (Personal)