He has plenty of anti-communist rants, and considered the Bolsheviks a ruling intelligentsia who only wanted to gain power for themselves.

It can take years to deprogram someone from his brand of college-student oriented idealist "anti-authoritarianism", into an actual class and materialist way of looking at the world.

Good start, now read Parenti

He had connections to jeffery epstien

He was instrumental in radicalising me. I watched the "New War on Terror" interview, as a saved video file before YouTube existed, probably a dozen times. But honestly I started to move past him in 2003. Also most the books with his name as the author are just typed up interviews and are terrible to read. It's as if they tried to monetise the Chomsky name as hard as they can.

He had a lot of great deconstructions of capitalism, in his earlier years. I don't think anyone can deny that. I think he frequently speaks a lot of sense.

However, especially currently in his senile age, he has many hmm takes. Like advocating for Biden, partially defending Epstein and being very critical of AES countries.

I'm not really sure any single public figure warrants uncritical support, because they're humans with varying ideas and flaws.

I think he has some good ideas, but he's not right about everything (obviously). I admire him in some ways also because he makes his critiques of imperialism fairly accessible to the average lib, compared to some other authors. But he's not the end game of "leftist thought", merely an introduction. From what I've seen he's also started to have increasingly bad takes on current events as he's aged.

I love that clip of him where he tries to explain to Andrew marr that capitalism and journalism in particular self selects for obedience, and Marr is just like . But I don't trust someone as smart as he is who claims not to understand dialectics and used to hang out with Jeffrey Epstein

Manufacturing Consent was written by Edward S. Herman

Noam Chomsky is like Mao because he has good takes and bad takes. Noam Chomsky isn't like Mao because he's a white US academic who never lead any popular movement

He has bad takes but we still like Treebeard.

Lol, no.

Good for you, however:

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5be5a25929711449ca9950d4/t/5df7ff1ef8dcf22406cca2ec/1576533792709/Noam+Chomsky+and+the+Compatible+Left.pdf

it could be worse, you could've been a follower and admirer of Zizek.

Rational, nice-smelling comrades: Let me hear and consider what this person has to say and if I agree with it or not, regardless of what he said yesterday.

Internet goblins: Let me find one flaw in something this person said from cradle to grave and dismiss everything they every said, with plenty of recreational name-calling thrown in.

Part of it is basic human shittiness, part of it is the slant of the medium, where glib put-downs work well and careful thoughtful arguments do not. Like if the discussions were taking place as a back-and-forth of journal letters we would discuss things in a better way.

I hate the left tbh, always trying to condemn. It seems to be a hobby for some of them.

That's cool and he's cool and you're cool.

I saw an ad for some subscription service with him on it ths other day