PATRICE GREANVILLE—For all his anti-imperialist rhetoric, Chomsky remains a controversial and deeply contradictory individual. Defining himself often as an anarchist—a form of adventuristic ultra-leftism—he is prone to criticise in harsh terms Lenin and Stalinism, that is any truly existing socialist government, be it China, Cuba, North Korea, Nicaragua, Venezuela, or the Soviet Union. In that way he ends up denouncing imperialism but canceling the denunciation by also attacking socialist nations under Imperialist attack. This is the “plague on both your houses” approach that is typical of many so-called “liberal progressives”. Chomsky also has a terribly naive conception of how the working class can attain power. In his book Turning the Tide, he argues that socialism can be secured in the US via the ballot box.
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Prominent liberals like former Labor Secretary Robert Reich were up in arms about the prospect that mega-billionaire Elon Musk might purchase controlling interest in Twitter and change the social media site’s policies about banning content deemed “misleading” or “inflammatory.” The idea that actual free speech might be brought back to Twitter is apparently unthinkable for Reich and his ilk. Jimmy and American comedian Kurt Metzger discuss the threat of free speech to authoritarians on the left.
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Much of the Western population are such babies, and basically believe that the entire world is like a Marvel Comics movie, that they wouldn’t be able to understand it anyway. There are people, however, who would not be swayed by the “Russians are just evil and that’s that” narrative if they were allowed to hear the other side. Even with the censorship, we are seeing normie conservatives begin to slowly back away from this childish narrative.
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Lisa Savage, is an antiwar activist, teacher, organizer, and grandmother who knows a better world is possible & is willing to work for it. In this interview, she expresses her frustrations with the seemingly unstoppable advance of idiotic cancel culture, a triumph for malicious propaganda and mass imbecility. In that, she speaks for everyone who has not been intimidated nor brainwashed by the new “woke” brand of demented global imperialism. A commenter says, “Thank you Ms. Savage for a dose of sanity in this insane, post-truth world.” And we wholeheartedly agree.
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Hedges illustrates the classical limits of left liberalism and social democracy: left anti-communism. Too bad that Jimmy Dore s still innocent about these things. For all the cogent and eloquent analysis about the state of US society, Hedges can never refrain from taking potshots at “authoritarians” (i.e., Stalin, the Soviet Union, the Serbs in the Yugoslav civil war). Read our special pieces on left anticommunism, a form of Fifth columnist posture, and why it matters to realise what role these people play in the class struggle.
