Been reading and watching a bunch of this guy lately. Who's a good counterweight? I'm starting to feel like Winston in 1984, or worse, someone who feels like he's Winston in 1984.
Counterweight to Chomsky
Aaron Ward
Gavin Sullivan
bump
Nathan Roberts
Chase Phillips
I can't think of any one guy to do it, but I have assorted bits and pieces.
Chomsky is extremely opinionated and kind of an ass to people that question him, so it should 't be hard to find instances of him being in the wrong.
Here is something that stuck with me:
Daniel Martinez
The first political theorist I recommend to everyone is James Burnham. "The Managerial Revolution" and "The Machiavellians" are both towering works of political theory, and they have much to say to rightists and leftists alike.
If you're looking for a more full-throated rebuttal of Chomsky's brand of leftism, F.A. Hayek's "Road to Serfdom" is a classic text skeptical of collectivism.
Frankly, most of the interesting right-wing writing is happening in serial form on the internet these days, though. Intellectual energy abounds on the dissident right, and getting ensconced in that world for a while will definitely be a palate cleanser after heavy doses of Noam.
Logan Bennett
Some antidotes to the Chomsky world-view:
>Burke "Reflections on the Revolution in France"
>Hayek "The Road To Serfdom"
>Hazlitt "Economics In One Lesson"
>Solzhenitsyn "Gulag Archipelago"
>Jung Chang "Wild Swans"
>W.G.Simpson "Which Way Western Man?"
>Leszek KoĊakowski "Main Currents Of Marxism"
The last is the intellectual heavyweight; it's not easy going though.
Aaron Martinez
>If you're looking for a more full-throated rebuttal of Chomsky's brand of leftism, F.A. Hayek's "Road to Serfdom" is a classic text skeptical of collectivism.
But Chomsky is a libertarian and an anti-collectivist
Carson Kelly
Shh, don't tell them.
Cameron Gutierrez
No one OP, he is right.
People who have tried to argue with him get demolished.
Accept it and embrace anarcho syndicalism + libertarian socialism.
Brayden Morris
He has never properly articulated how an anarcho-syndicalist society would look like or how it can be achieved. Just like most radical leftists, he is better at criticizing the current system than presenting any concrete alternative to it.
Brody Lee
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Daniel Evans
Except he lends his support to strong-men like Chavez and is part of a syndicalist internationale.
Alexander Campbell
Aiden Lewis
Go back to /r/badphilosophy
Blake Adams
that's because anarcho-syndicalist is not a political model, is a political tactic of the left, the political tactic of taking responsibility for nothing and asking for everything, but taken to even more autistic heights
Jeremiah Turner
monbiot is an idiot though
Angel Nelson
>read chomsky
>feel like 1984
>bitch please
take the real redpill
Nathan Myers
It will look something like the Paris Commune
Cameron Morales
what did the Paris Commune produce to eat?
Colton Walker
What the ... so you have never heard about it until this thread?
Asher Morris
answer the question, how did they feed themselves except for leeching from the countryside?
Jason Myers
The Anti-Chomsky Reader
Ryder Thompson
>Chomsky
>Marxist
wew
William Campbell
>David Horowitz
i don't hate the guy, but can he write anything? he seemed like a meme on the theory side on any interview i saw him and too emotionally hurt by the left
Mason Nguyen
>too emotionally hurt by the left
the panthers murdered a friend of his so yeah desu.
Grayson Richardson
They didn't need to leech from anyone because the Commune was created in preparation for war you idiot. Nobody was thinking about food and shit when it was still assembling government and industry before they got invaded by the French Army. Maybe if they won, you would have an answer to your stupid question
William Gutierrez
>the Commune was created in preparation for war
>Nobody was thinking about food
Owen Morgan
>Nobody was thinking about food and shit when it was still assembling government and industry
so it was just a meme at that point, i get it
Levi Jenkins
But their attempts to reorganize society in those 3 months is the practice or prototype for anarcho-syndicalism.
Also Paris leeches off the countryside like every other capital city, Commune or not
Colton Anderson
>be me
>Uber right wing
>Admire Chomsky
I guess not s lot of people realize this , but anti-capitalist sentiments in the right have deep syndicalist roots in them.
en.m.wikipedia.org
Robert Gutierrez
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there you go
Austin Cooper
>Newfag forgets about the word filter and has deep problems with Reddit spacing
You have to go back
Isaiah Cox
kys
Camden Sullivan
No
Jonathan Jenkins
>we're going to be sieged, we have no time to worry about food
Leo Torres
It's actually easier to penetrate than Marx's Capital - which isn't really worth the full read. There wouldn't be so many revisionist offshots of Marxism if the original held up well.
Isaac Russell
watch the video again
Easton Williams
>uber right wing
>still using the left/right paradigm
No wonder you admire Chomsky, you fag.
Colton Ramirez
>we don't exist
>we're nazbol
>we're everything
>we're democratic and left economic and rw
>haha we stole it
you should all count to 3 and strangle each other
Oliver Perez
there's no counter to chomsky apart from sociopath autists who think everything is machine. If it weren't for Chomsky your entire society would be a totalitarian Skinner box, you a machine to be programmed, and if you were ever upset about anything that would be a defect in you to be corrected, not a valid criticism to be considered by authority.
Alexander Adams
>Counterweight to Chomsky
a lobotomy
Blake James
Was watching some of his lectures from the '80s and realized old boy just seems much more out of it nowadays. A couple decades of shaking your fist but ultimately having no effect on society will do that to you.
Evan Smith
working with/among the DoD and MIT will do that to your brain
Ryder White
i think as he gets close to death he's finally maturing, i heard some talk he gave last year where he was talking like "tha'ts just how the world works" or something, like he finally realizes being angsty about the world is dumb
also now that he's losing his filter due to senility it was fun to hear him say how he always hated catholics until he met some communist catholics in el-salvador or something lol
Christian Williams
How is this already not the case?
Noah Reyes
He's an intellectual, not a revolutionary. I do think he's laid down some excellent groundwork that future generations might pick up on.
In fact, given the age we're living in, I wouldn't be surprised if it's around the corner. (Not necessarily violent revolution btw)
Jace White
The best thing is to focus on his weaker work, since that's what would usually make someone question whether he's all-knowing. His early discussions of libertarian anarchism are like this. They're the product of a different time, and thing he clearly has the least confidence in. He only ever speaks about it in a very vague way and at this point appears to have almost completely stopped in favor of more concrete criticisms of policy and discussion of history. When it comes to ideology, he stops seeming so authoritative. Once the foundation of his thought appears weak, then you might start to see more cracks elsewhere.
Jose Jackson
Chomsky is trash.
Isaiah Taylor
this is a trash comment, kys
Carson Adams
because he is an anarchist and isn't going to tell people how to live or order their lives!
he says it will have to be worked out as you go
he does point to existing possibilities like the recovered factory movement and mondragon
Jace Hall
>antidote to Chomsky
Any author, really. He's garbage. Start with Sapir.
Jason Anderson
james petras