Leegh [he/him]

I remember many years ago when I was a young naive lib, I was one day walking down the street in my neighbourhood when an Asian woman handed me a Shen Yun Pamphlet, telling me to check out the show and how it shows “authentic Chinese culture”.

Me being the naive lib who at the time thought the evil CPC destroyed ‘real’ Chinese culture which orgs like Falun Gong preserved, accepted the pamphlet happily and later on in the day went to visit my Chinese grandmother to tell her about this cool Chinese theatre play.

She immediately shut me down and told me that Shen Yun is a cult that you shouldn’t trust whatsoever. I didn’t become a communist until years later, but that day taught me to rethink my position on Falun Gong and to not blindly trust reactionary religious organizations.

Thanks grandma.

Oh, I don’t disagree with that, I’m more peeved at all the Western leftists that continue to uphold someone who has always held a complete and utter distain towards AES in the same vein Slavoj Zizek does.

I won’t deny he made significant contributions to the field of linguistics, although his rationalist position on the Human language is debatable, but in regard to geopolitics and socioeconomics? My guy, Michael Parenti’s works and lectures are right there. Hell, there are a plethora of Western Marxist thinkers in the last century that have far better input on how Base and Superstructure operates than Chomsky ever did. Even fucking Einstein had better takes on Socialism than he did.

Just because Chomsky is more popular and his works are cited more by liberals, doesn’t mean he should be lauded by anyone on the left as an arbiter of ‘socialist’ thought. Especially when his views on AES have always been downright reactionary and orientalist (no, not “in his late years” but for decades), calling states like the DPRK “the most horrible regime in Human history” and China “a very brutal society, a brutal government. I don’t feel any particular interest in improving relations with it.”.

As someone who descended from a family who came from that “very brutal society” I do not have any qualms denouncing someone like Chomsky who peddles bigoted views against non-western societies.

Also, I think simply calling him a “pedophile sympathizer” is minimizing his complicity don’t you think? You’re acting as if he just questioned age of consent laws or expressed sympathy to Epstein when what he really did was actively collaborate with and defend a Billionaire paedophile that he was VERY close with. He even received tens of thousands of dollars from Epstein to fund his linguistic academic pursuits lmao. Even if you ignore the whole pedo ring, he was still an active class collaborator with the American bourgeoisie (which honestly, explains his anti-communist views a lot). He may be an intellectual, but an ally of the socialist left he is not.

Perhaps most strikingly, in late February 2019, Epstein represented to an associate that he had gotten advice from Chomsky over how to navigate “the horrible way you are being treated in the press and public”.

“The best way to proceed is to ignore it,” Chomsky wrote, according to text signed under his first name that Epstein sent to a lawyer and publicist. “That’s particularly true now with the hysteria that has developed about abuse of women, which has reached the point that even questioning a charge is a crime worse than murder.”

How did anyone ever consider this guy an intellectual giant of the Western left is beyond me.

Hahaha silly Amerikanski it was me all along, now face the wall

Did the Romans care that the Senate and their patrons destroyed the legitimacy of the Roman Republic in the 1st century BC? No, they just moved on and allowed them to create the Roman Empire which lasted for another 400 years.

I like to think we’ve moved on from antiquity, but the mentality of the average American is making me question this. As the saying goes, history repeats itself…

Prequels: German Confederacy becoming German Empire

Original trilogy: German Empire during WW1

Sequels: Weimar Republic allowing Nazi Germany to form