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I respect Chomsky's well-constructed, dark analyses of how we got where we are. He usually stops after this 20-20 hindsight. The messy part, what to do about it
by 8bitsrule 5y ago
I respect Chomsky's well-constructed, dark analyses of how we got where we are. He usually stops after this 20-20 hindsight. The messy part, what to do about it, is left to the Chomsky consumer. Unfortunate for those who can only respond with depression or attempts to revive the past.
- tehjoker 5y agoYea... to be honest, after listening to Chomsky and doing activism for years, I think that's because effective action looks like things that would destabilize the US imperial state and economic system. Chomsky is tolerated in academia because he stops short of saying such things and sharply criticizes Communist countries often in ways that do not feel as solid as his research. I think he's very much worth listening to on the problems, but I ignore him on solutions. You can't solve these problems while leaving concentrated centers of market power intact. Nor can you leave the market system that would regenerate them intact either. The trust busters took action in the early 20th century but here we are in a place where it's even worse than before. Nor can we leave the arms manufacturers and military contractors intact either. If all that goes, so does US dominance over world affairs and the influence of the dollar. To that I say: good.