/lit/ - Literature

>>20001124
>>This reminds me of the time Chomsky told people to vote for Clinton or the world will be in danger.
kek thanks for the reminder
all of these so called socialist intelligentsia personalities are fucking hilarious

>>19459702
>Why are leftist intellectuals almost never able to address the failures of past socialist/communist systems? Are there any who actually talk about them and offer realistic alternatives?
There's no such thing as a leftist intellectual.
You're confusing career academics and pop-lecturers who "think" with people who actually do things and influence the world through intelligence.

>>19030720
>or am I really on the right track?
Depends, what are your intentions?
If you want to actually produce some kind of tangible product, improvement, or change in the world...you are completely and hilariously wayward. If you want to become a career academic or accumulate political clout or something and root further in the rotting corpse of modern society, yes you are absolutely on the right track. You could even be the next Chomsky, where you do absolutely nothing and be admired the world over as an 'intellectual' by millions of effete indolents who do nothing but sample the brume of their own exhalations.
>>19033419 quite right!

>>19010915
>the tv told me this guy is an intellectual!
Protip, Chomsky isn't left wing, and Buckley isn't right wing. They are both pop personalities, they have nothing to do with real politics whatsoever. They have built careers out of fooling gullible morons like yourself into thinking they have anything to say about anything, they don't, and you are a species of demented cattle.

reminder

so much butthurt itt

>>16319221
No-one actually likes Buckley but like all 'public intellectuals' he's a useful measuring stick for the times. I find him totally repulsive but it's thoroughly interesting to see how even when he is clearly correct there is a tremendous push against correctness in the name of political correctness, America is a demented place where one is meant to prefer one to the other; one such example is his so called debate against Baldwin, a crystal clear demonstration that affirmative action doesn't stop at our schools or even our shores, American dementia is exported the world over and compels everyone to seek and justify mediocrity and to call that virtue.

>>15258871
He is the dumb person's idea of a smart person, in the political sphere. He's never said or done anything worthwhile and that has actually become his appeal, people are ready to cite him precisely because he is so far removed from mainstream relevance because this suggests a conspiracy against the left he supposedly represents. In effect, the more worthless his views, the more leftist perversion defers to him. It's a sort of cross between a celebration of victimization and contrarianism, the two fundamental pillars of today's left.

>>15101885
chomsky never had any regard for reality, we're talking about someone who claims that groups went around in the 60s beating and breaking up meetings against the Vietnam war in the east coast united states, the guy is a jewish joke

>>14193194
>people who /lit/ told you were cringe but are actually based
Kissinger

>>14072694
>Peterson says universities are dominated by the left, now for him the left are anybody to the left of Atilla the Hun.
>In fact universities are dominated by the right! He's so far on the right that that looks like the left for him.
Is Chomsky senile now?

>>13711633
Can't tell if serious or not but International Relations you cumbrain.

>>12802374
>leftists

>>12031455

>>11494312
This man, in my country he is everything.

kissinger the goat

>>11088330
indeed