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For Noam Chomsky, like other radical leftists, the idea that the working class is deceived and distracted is part of an anti-cognitive-dissonance package to exp
by hugh3 17y ago
For Noam Chomsky, like other radical leftists, the idea that the working class is deceived and distracted is part of an anti-cognitive-dissonance package to explain why the supposedly-oppressed masses fail to share his political opinions.
Obama isn't nearly as extreme as Chomsky politically, but come from the same sort of intellectual heritage.
- patio11 17y agoThus the corollary: when the Revolution comes, the workers will need to be lead by those who are intellectually capable of leading them, and academic Marxists will take their rightful place in the cosmos as rulers of all they surv... first among equals. This has basically been the totalitarian promise for a couple of centuries now.
- hga 17y agoExcept that the promise is also a lie, for the academic Marxists get slaughtered when a real gangster like Stalin uses the instrumentality they've created against them. A fitting end, too bad so many innocents have to die or suffer in the process.