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Who will be the 21st centuries Chomsky?

>"Committee agreed to request by professor Noam Chomsky (MIT) to speak on East Timor. Although Chomsky has not yet appeared, advance text of statement was made available to committee members. Statement is long and sharp attack on US policy and Western press treatment of East Timor question."

>"Statement contains sharp attack on U.S. policy on East Timor question and condemnation of US and Western press for evading the issue or reporting only USG and GOI views."

>"The statement charges that the U.S. (followed by the press) has denied or concealed atrocities committed by Indonesia and has argued that no useful purpose can be served by questioning Indonesian control of East Timor. By following this policy, Chomsky states, the U.S. has in effect "been able to take part in massacres and repression in East Timor by providing Indonesia with the material support it requires to carry on its continuing war of aggression and the ideological support that enables it to do so virtually in secret." Statement ends by equating "alleged" atrocities in Cambodia to those in East Timor. The former have been given "massive international publicity...Embellished by substantial fabrication" while the latter have been largely ignored by the Western media, the statement alleges. Chomsky supports his criticism of U.S. policy by drawing extensively from dept testimony before congress and selective quotes from the Western press."

>"East Timor issue has still attracted little interest in fourth committee. Chomsky statement could, however, attract press attention and increase visibility of the issue. If dept believes mission should make statement in right of reply to Chomsky, text should be datafaxed before opening of fourth committee meeting afternoon Dec. 1."

Government fears the Chomsky Samurai

Because he is a hack

>Asked him about Max Stirner:
>Chomsky: Never followed his work carefully

Who will play him in the biographical drama?

Start with Chomsky

If you’re a serious revolutionary, then you are not looking for an autocratic revolution, but a popular one which will move towards freedom and democracy. That can take place only if a mass of the population is implementing it, carrying it out, and solving problems. They’re not going to undertake that commitment, understandably, unless they have discovered for themselves that there are limits to reform.

A sensible revolutionary will try to push reform to the limits, for two good reasons. First, because the reforms can be valuable in themselves. People should have an eight-hour day rather than a twelve-hour day. And in general, we should want to act in accord with decent ethical values.

Secondly, on strategic grounds, you have to show that there are limits to reform. Perhaps sometimes the system will accommodate to needed reforms. If so, well and good. But if it won’t, then new questions arise. Perhaps that is a moment when resistance is a necessary step to overcome the barriers to justified changes. Perhaps the time has come to resort to coercive measures in defense of rights and justice, a form of self-defense. Unless the general population recognizes such measures to be a form of self-defense, they’re not going to take part in them, at least they shouldn’t.

If you get to a point where the existing institutions will not bend to the popular will, you have to eliminate the institutions.

Harris chooses to ignore the reality of what happened in the Sudan and instead substitute it with a ridiculous what if scenario he concocted to support his position that so long as you have good intentions its okay if lots of innocent people die as a consequence and you're not responsible for the consequences of your actions because of your good intentions

https://youtube.com/watch?v=OjQA0e0UYzI
What does Chomsky think of Post Modernism?

Who will take up his mantle when he passes away?

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