Noam Chomsky on Marxism

Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=le7OqmDtcLo
Full Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx6VlKOU1AM

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Noam Chomsky on Anarcho-syndicalism | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5xNGPtk7no

Rules of the game:
- Grab the nearest book.
- Turn to page 42
- Find the 2nd sentence
- Post the sentence in a toot with the hashtag & write the rules as a comment to it
- Don't look for your favourite, coolest or wittiest book. Go for the closest.

Competence, the term established by the American linguist Noam Chomsky to denote that unconscious store of linguistic knowledge which enables us to speak and understand our first language properly without having to think about it, permitting us to utter and comprehend sentences that we may never have heard before.
#Linguistics #NoamChomsky
#page42

“As long as the general population is passive, apathetic,
diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable,
then the powerful can do as they please,
and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.”
~ #NoamChomsky

“The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.”
~Justice #LouisBrandeis

“The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
~ #Plato

That Jacobin article on #NoamChomsky was hot garbage.

The comparisons to #Marx are especially bizarre given that #Chomsky is probably one of the more prominent anti-communist liberals out there. He’s spent his career paying the most basic lip service to Marx and then ruthlessly criticizing socialist countries with no regard for larger historical context. He actually peddles the idea that Leninism is a right-wing perversion of Marx and referred to #Marxism as an “irrational cult.”

Noam Chomsky’s wife says reports of famed linguist’s death are false

"Earlier Tuesday, Chomsky was trending on X as false reports of his death abounded. Jacobin and The New Statesman published obituaries for Chomsky, though the former changed its headline from “We Remember Noam Chomsky” to “Let’s Celebrate Noam Chomsky.”"

Of course it was on X/Twitter. I don't know why anyone uses that platform anymore.

#X #Twitter #news #NoamChomsky #media #press #SocialMedia

https://apnews.com/article/noam-chomsky-alive-not-dead-5b7a1b23b8731ca311e1ec38cdc3c119

Reports of the death of Noam Chomsky appear to be untrue. The New Statesman and Jacobin published obituaries for the 95-year-old linguist, philosopher, activist and intellectual, who is known to have had a stroke last year, however Cauê Seigner Ameni, editor of Jacobin Brasil tweeted that he has spoken to Chomsky's wife, Valerie, and he is alive. The New Statesman has now taken down its obituary, while Jacobin has given its tribute a new headline: "Let’s Celebrate Noam Chomsky, the Intellectual and Moral Giant."

https://jacobin.com/2024/06/noam-chomsky-obituary-media-theory-elites

Update: his death greatly exaggerated? (https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/India/what-happened-to-noam-chomsky-reports-of-american-professors-death-false-says-wife/ar-BB1osWnx)

I may not have agreed with every one of his positions in later life but Noam Chomsky was one of the defining people in opening my eyes to the world as it is versus how I’d taken it to be at face value (as someone who didn’t have to question it while growing up in a relatively privileged environment).

Rest in peace, Noam. The world has lost a great mind and an even greater conscience today.

https://jacobin.com/2024/06/noam-chomsky-obituary-media-theory-elites/

#DidYouKnow that #NoamChomsky was a #Zionist? ​​

This is a very complex problem. It depends on what you mean by Zionism. I was a Zionist activist in my youth. For me, Zionism meant opposition to a Jewish state. The Zionist movement did not come out officially in favor of a Jewish state until 1942. Before this it was merely the intent of the Zionist leadership. The Zionist movement for a long time stood against the establishment of a Jewish state because such a state would be discriminatory and racist.