Chomsky is very Anti-USSR, calling it a coup staged by Lenin and the Bolsheviks. Very anti-Marxist comparing Marxism with religious fanatics. I am not kidding, years ago, I listened to an interview he did on Robert McChesney’s old podcast. McChesney was a leftist media prof, and once part of the editorial committee of longtime Socialist magazine Monthy Review. During the interview, Chomsky talked about how it was that the Berlin Wall fell, because East Germany and the USSR was not Socialism. McChesney asked Chomsky what country is closest to Socialism, and Chomsky says the USA because of all its freedoms. I had to re-listen that part to make sure I didn’t misheard. That explains why he calls himself some sort of Anarchist, but always tells his fans to vote Democrats lol
I used to tell myself that the reason he said shit like that was as an inside joke between him and some FBI agent still listening to every conversation public and private. Not because I really thought he was still some dangerous revolutionary but because he just said some stuff that was critical of Bush II and the war in Iraq. I felt like “ooh it’s the consent” “it’s being manufactured before my eyes!”
Now it’s more like he got bought and paid. Christ it explains so much about his cynicism toward the USSR especially the early USSR. He must have figured Lenin and the Bolsheviks were in it for the $$$, like he was.
Chomsky is very Anti-USSR, calling it a coup staged by Lenin and the Bolsheviks. Very anti-Marxist comparing Marxism with religious fanatics. I am not kidding, years ago, I listened to an interview he did on Robert McChesney’s old podcast. McChesney was a leftist media prof, and once part of the editorial committee of longtime Socialist magazine Monthy Review. During the interview, Chomsky talked about how it was that the Berlin Wall fell, because East Germany and the USSR was not Socialism. McChesney asked Chomsky what country is closest to Socialism, and Chomsky says the USA because of all its freedoms. I had to re-listen that part to make sure I didn’t misheard. That explains why he calls himself some sort of Anarchist, but always tells his fans to vote Democrats lol
I used to tell myself that the reason he said shit like that was as an inside joke between him and some FBI agent still listening to every conversation public and private. Not because I really thought he was still some dangerous revolutionary but because he just said some stuff that was critical of Bush II and the war in Iraq. I felt like “ooh it’s the consent”
“it’s being manufactured before my eyes!”
Now it’s more like he got bought and paid. Christ it explains so much about his cynicism toward the USSR especially the early USSR. He must have figured Lenin and the Bolsheviks were in it for the $$$, like he was.