How does chomsky even get away with calling himself a communist? All he does is bitch about the US and push for more welfare state. I never once hear him pushing for land redistribution or workers owning the means of production, he's a god damn millionaire it would take a couple of hours for him to make a worker's cooperative but he doesn't give a shit
Worse he apologizes for dictators in between and US bashing, I mean even US was closer to communism than USSR because the workers didn't own anything. Chomsky is basically just an edgier bill mahr and a better paid one
He doesn't call himself a communist and his idea of libertarian socialism isn't even Marxist.
making a cooperative in capitalism will not push society towards communism though, so that's why he doesn't create one.
he pushes for the welfare state since that's better for the worker's self interest than a lack of a welfare state. i agree he's a little moderate, but i don't think much of what he says is in contradiction with communist ideology.
Chomsky is a quintessentially American thinker. For all his US-bashing, he's a fundamental part of its intellectual and political establishment. It's because he's more concerned with practice than with the correctness of his ideology that he seems so inconsistent. Also, this practice must be divorced from actual historical, social, and philosophical concerns. It's why he had such a hard time debating Foucault. Foucault was the much more consistent and incisive of his critiques of power and the constructions of the idea of human nature. Chomsky just wanted to know which causes to support, and always has.
>>1385826
Chomsky isn't a communist you retard
Is this thread about Noam Chomsky? Because then fuck him, I just failed an exam the first time in life, fuck Chomsky hierarchy.
(okay it was my bad that I was lazy to learn his notations, actually his stuff is pretty interesting)
>>1385826
>a communist?
he doesn't
SAGE!
>>1387435
He's an anarcho-syndicalist. Pushes for the welfare state because the working class need a safety net. Without it many would face literal starvation.
That's exactly what communism is you retarded marxist filth
>>1387435
>why does he call himself a communist
>he doesn't
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