I am nearly halfway through The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith and I decided to look for some commentary on it by modern writers. I came across pic related who I hadn't heard of before but his comments on the book were pretty reasonable and coincided with my view on it.
Now I don't know any of his own works but I wonder what you guys (especially Americans) think of him and his works if you have read those. Are there any works of his you recommend?
>>66687355
Noam Chomsky? Eh. Lots of people like him, and I read some of his work on teaching methodology back in the day, but he turned ultra-liberal for a while, crying about foreign wars and American foreign policy.
He might be better now. If not, we just wait for the SJWs to eat him alive over some imagined slight.
>>66687355
cambodgian genocide denier. Fuckin hate his eternal anti-west rhetoric ,which is often disingenuous.Also dirty socialist.
>>66687355
I liked him during my leftist phase in my late teens. then i realized he was almost always anti-west, regardless of the situation.
>>66688052
>cambodgian genocide denier
Come again?
>>66688363
And his work economic stuff?
JUDENRAT
Fucking Ellsworth Toohey
Piece of shit anarcho-communist, always hating on the West. Read some Milton Friedman if you are interested in Adam Smith's philosophy.
>>66687355
Stupid cuckservatives and other statists always like to call ol Noah Chomp a radical leftist. While his political leanings may be that of a libertarian socialist, most all of his writing on American empire is spot in. You don't have to agree with his politics but that's not what he writes about.
He is simply a chronicler of US involvement in foreign affairs and how the media is used against the American people by the state. You will learn a great deal about US history that was never taught to you in any college course. No matter what your politics are you will benefit from reading choam nomsky.
>>66687355
He is a mongoloid.
Kill yourself.
>>66687355
Noam Chompsky outside of his field of expertise (Which is linguistics) should be treated like a grain of salt.
ITT people who have never read Noam Chomsky.
>>66688771
Lmao dubs speaking truth
>>66688771
Did he seriously endorse those regimes?
He is an amazing person who often writes about American shortcomings and majority of them hate him for that
Truly a huge intellectual
>>66689083
>Said the slav
>>66689208
Yes, i said it, 5 points for you
>>66687355
>I came across pic related who I hadn't heard of before
B8
>>66688765
this guys spot on, also props to Chomsky. my conservative friends and my communist friends hate him, but both side respect his knowledge of US foreign/domestic policy
>>66689083
I'll grant you that he was saying this shit before the mainstream began saying it.
But there's no particular pride in being the FIRST man to suck a dead dog's cock.
>>66689078
Yep.
>>66687741
>crying about foreign wars
Why do you want to be dragged into foreign wars?
Is he a Jew?
>>66689612
>you don't hate it
>you must want it
I don't criticise everything I don't like, m8. That's what a child does.
>>66689370
Adam Smith is first economic book so to speak, skipped over everything that went before him and haven't read a single thing that came after him yet.
>>66689456
>>66688765
What is his best book on the subject if I may ask?
>>66689605
That's pretty stupid if you ask me. Did he give his full support or did he remark they had an amiable quality?
>>66689747
yes
>>66688443
>And his work economic stuff?
don't agree with it, but that's not my main issue with him.
>>66689911
American imperialism is certainly a thing to be discussed. Especially if everyone else almost bans you everywhere if you say it
>>66689605
What would that have to do with his views on The Wealth of Nations?
>>66690031
Are you sure? Wiki says only his dad was Jewish.
>>66690073
>Especially if everyone else almost bans you everywhere if you say it
I think you underestimate just how much it gets discussed. It's one of the American left's biggest talking points. And the American left is HUGE.
>>66690125
well, he definitely identifies as a jew. and he was in some jewish/zionist youth group or something.
>>66690275
>it gets discussed
it gets discussed the same way teachers discuss weed.
>it's bad
>ok
>now continue smoking that shit, i've said it and that's it
>>66690523
So what is it? is it banned, or widely discussed in a way that you don't personally approve of?
Because it can't be both.
>>66690769
It definitely can, it's recommended to have useful idiots shouting some shit no one listens to, so you can create an image of democratic nation and shit like that
But when people start discussing real shit, only then you see the true face of "democracy". You either get shadowbanned from society, or you if talk REAL loud and REAL true, you disappear
That's why we must appreciate Noam, he talks as much as he can and he's already pretty big intellectual so they can't just avoid him like 99% of other nobodys
>>66691261
Soooooo, what is a recommended book by him?
>>66687355
he's a hack and denies the Cambodian genocide because he backed the Khmer Rouge
The guy has integrity. I respect that about him, but not so much his views.
Also he invented context free grammars which is a major contribution to linguistics and computer science. He's brilliant for This achievement.
>>66691712
I just quickly googled it and the first """"article"""" on it mentions basically misinterpreted what he said on purpose. Again I haven't read a single book of his so I would like it if someone can name a good one.
https://www.quora.com/Was-Noam-Chomsky-naive-about-the-Khmer-Rouge-when-they-came-to-power
>>66687355
>chomsky
>having anything relevant to say about anything other than linguistics
his bullshit is pure sophistry designed to dupe people who don't think critically
>>66689911
You are complaining about people complaining, that makes you even more of an idiot by your own standards.
>>66687355
failed states was good. he is basically a counter propaganda writer.
>>66691712
hahaha kill yourself kike
the US backed the khmer rouge (as did china) because they opposed the viet cong.
it was the vietnamese backed by the soviets who invaded cambodia and took out the khmer rouge.
>>66697491
You retarded? The Vietnamese were the ones who put pol pot in power in the first place. They only turned on him when he was getting too close with China when the Vietnamese hated.
>>66688443
>come again?
Chomsky went to Cambodia in the 70s to research the situation post-Khmer Rouge takeover. Despite the obvious and overwhelming evidence, he stated that the Cambodian genocide was nothing more than western imperialist propaganda because...literally blinded by his boner for the Marxism and hatred of America.
>>66688765
I study mass communications and chompsky comes up about as often as marshall mcluhan, which is to say all the time.
>>66687355
shitstain with no background in economics other than his marxist studies
>>66687355
Read his lectures on how law should work in practice.
They're on the archive.org site but at the monent it is unavailable.
>>66687355
also to blame for one of the worst memes in existence
>>66687355
watch manufacturing consent and the media
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHa6NflkW3Y
you'll never find me agreeing with his politics, but this stuff is gold
>>66687741
He's still very left wing but even so it's difficult to point out errors in his history or logic. Like any commentator or "historian," there will be a lens or angle to everything.
I read Necessary Illusions about six years ago and it seems to be one of the most important books I've ever read.
>>66687355
he's a linguist and a chatty kathy who loves the sounds of his voice
he lists factoids and then gives no alternatives
>>66698740
So he fits right in here on /pol/ with all the Holocaust deniers
>>66702449
More like the Bizarro World version of /pol/...i.e., Reddit.
>>66688765
This. Like the guy or hate him, he does have some interesting points of view. I think he's worth reading if for nothing else than to be able to improve your own stances.
