Perhaps most strikingly, in late February 2019, Epstein represented to an associate that he had gotten advice from Chomsky over how to navigate “the horrible way you are being treated in the press and public”.
“The best way to proceed is to ignore it,” Chomsky wrote, according to text signed under his first name that Epstein sent to a lawyer and publicist. “That’s particularly true now with the hysteria that has developed about abuse of women, which has reached the point that even questioning a charge is a crime worse than murder.”
How did anyone ever consider this guy an intellectual giant of the Western left is beyond me.
Stuff like this is why bourgeois electoralism will never get you Socialism. Marx and Engels first observed this two centuries ago and have been proven right time and time again ever since.
You need a left that is willing to actually purge all the right opposition in the legislature, in the military, and in the civil service, so you can starve any opportunity for the bourgeoisie to undermine you once you're in power. Free Peru is a supposedly "Marxist" party, but they simply don't understand this for some reason. Even certain rightists do; I guarantee if Keiko Fujimori were President the first thing she would do is ban all the socialist/ communist aligned parties.