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{{Infobox revolutionary|name=Noam Chomsky|image_size=200|birth_date=December 7, 1928|birth_place=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, [[United States of America|United States]]| | {{Infobox revolutionary|name=Noam Chomsky|image_size=200|nationality=[[United States of America|Statesian]]|birth_name=Avram Noam Chomsky|birth_date=December 7, 1928|birth_place=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, [[United States of America|United States]]|political_line=[[Libertarian Socialism]] <br> [[Imperialism]]<ref>{{Web citation|author=Lorenzo A.|newspaper=[[Popaganda]]|title=Noam Chomsky and the Compatible Left, Part I|date=2019/09/15|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191115230624/https://lorenzoae.wordpress.com/2019/03/04/noam-chomsky-and-the-compatible-left-part-i/|retrieved=2022-12-08}}</ref> <br> [[Anti-communism]]<ref>{{Citation|author=Michael Parenti|year=1997|title=Black Shirts & Reds|chapter=Left Anticommunism|chapter-url=https://www.greanvillepost.com/2018/10/06/left-anticommunism-the-unkindest-cut/|section=Genuflection to Orthodoxy|quote=“Many on the U.S. Left have exhibited a Soviet bashing and Red baiting that matches anything on the Right in its enmity and crudity. Listen to Noam Chomsky holding forth about “left intellectuals” who try to “rise to power on the backs of mass popular movements” and “then beat the people into submission. . . . You start off as basically a Leninist who is going to be part of the Red bureaucracy. You see later that power doesn’t lie that way, and you very quickly become an ideologist of the right. . . . We’re seeing it right now in the [former] Soviet Union. The same guys who were communist thugs two years back, are now running banks and [are] enthusiastic free marketeers and praising Americans” (Z Magazine, 10/95). | ||
Chomsky’s imagery is heavily indebted to the same U.S. corporate political culture he so frequently criticizes on other issues. In his mind, the revolution was betrayed by a coterie of “communist thugs” who merely hunger for power rather than wanting the power to end hunger. In fact, the communists did not “very quickly” switch to the Right but struggled in the face of a momentous onslaught to keep Soviet socialism alive for more than seventy years. To be sure, in the Soviet Union’s waning days some, like Boris Yeltsin, crossed over to capitalist ranks, but others continued to resist free-market incursions at great cost to themselves, many meeting their deaths during Yeltsin’s violent repression of the Russian parliament in 1993.”}} | |||
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'''Avram Noam Chomsky''' is a Statesian public intellectual who supported the bombing of [[Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1992–2006)|Yugoslavia]] and is opposed to [[Vladimir Lenin]].<ref>{{Web citation|author=Noam Chomsky|newspaper=Chomsky.info|title=The Soviet Union Versus Socialism|date=1986|url=https://chomsky.info/1986____/|retrieved=2022-12-08}}</ref> However, he is against the [[United States embargo against Cuba|U.S. blockade of Cuba]].<ref>{{Web citation|author=Manolo De Los Santos, [[Vijay Prashad]]|newspaper=[[Liberation News]]|title=Let Cuba Live—The movement standing up to Biden’s maximum pressure campaign|date=2021-07-28|url=https://www.liberationnews.org/let-cuba-live-the-movement-standing-up-to-bidens-maximum-pressure-campaign/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221108211738/https://www.liberationnews.org/let-cuba-live-the-movement-standing-up-to-bidens-maximum-pressure-campaign/|archive-date=2022-11-08|retrieved=2022-12-08}}</ref> He is a prominent and well-known leader of the [[compatible left]] who has received major funding from the [[MICIMATT|congressional military industrial complex]].<ref>{{Citation|author=Roderic Day|year=2020|title=On Chomsky|title-url=https://redsails.org/on-chomsky/|publisher=Red Sails}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Roderic Day|newspaper=Twitter|title=Chomsky|date=2020-04-01|url=https://twitter.com/RodericDay/status/1245340127968333829}}</ref> | |||
==See Also== | ==See Also== | ||
[ | * [[Non-communist left]] | ||
* [[Left-wing anticommunism]] | |||
== References == | == References == | ||
[[Category:The Compatible Left]] | [[Category:The Compatible Left]] | ||
[[Category:Anti-communists]] | |||
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| Born | Avram Noam Chomsky December 7, 1928 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Nationality | Statesian |
| Political orientation | Libertarian Socialism Imperialism[1] Anti-communism[2] |
Avram Noam Chomsky is a Statesian public intellectual who supported the bombing of Yugoslavia and is opposed to Vladimir Lenin.[3] However, he is against the U.S. blockade of Cuba.[4] He is a prominent and well-known leader of the compatible left who has received major funding from the congressional military industrial complex.[5][6]
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- ↑ Lorenzo A. (2019/09/15). "Noam Chomsky and the Compatible Left, Part I" Popaganda. Retrieved 2022-12-08.
- ↑ ““Many on the U.S. Left have exhibited a Soviet bashing and Red baiting that matches anything on the Right in its enmity and crudity. Listen to Noam Chomsky holding forth about “left intellectuals” who try to “rise to power on the backs of mass popular movements” and “then beat the people into submission. . . . You start off as basically a Leninist who is going to be part of the Red bureaucracy. You see later that power doesn’t lie that way, and you very quickly become an ideologist of the right. . . . We’re seeing it right now in the [former] Soviet Union. The same guys who were communist thugs two years back, are now running banks and [are] enthusiastic free marketeers and praising Americans” (Z Magazine, 10/95).
Chomsky’s imagery is heavily indebted to the same U.S. corporate political culture he so frequently criticizes on other issues. In his mind, the revolution was betrayed by a coterie of “communist thugs” who merely hunger for power rather than wanting the power to end hunger. In fact, the communists did not “very quickly” switch to the Right but struggled in the face of a momentous onslaught to keep Soviet socialism alive for more than seventy years. To be sure, in the Soviet Union’s waning days some, like Boris Yeltsin, crossed over to capitalist ranks, but others continued to resist free-market incursions at great cost to themselves, many meeting their deaths during Yeltsin’s violent repression of the Russian parliament in 1993.””
Michael Parenti (1997). Black Shirts & Reds: 'Left Anticommunism; Genuflection to Orthodoxy'. - ↑ Noam Chomsky (1986). "The Soviet Union Versus Socialism" Chomsky.info. Retrieved 2022-12-08.
- ↑ Manolo De Los Santos, Vijay Prashad (2021-07-28). "Let Cuba Live—The movement standing up to Biden’s maximum pressure campaign" Liberation News. Archived from the original on 2022-11-08. Retrieved 2022-12-08.
- ↑ Roderic Day (2020). On Chomsky. Red Sails.
- ↑ Roderic Day (2020-04-01). "Chomsky" Twitter.