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The political and linguistic writings of America's leading dissident intellectual. He relates his political ideals to his theories about language.
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Hey Raymond.. listen to an intelligent perspective.......2006-08-11
Rayboy, what is wrong with the criticisms that Chomsky throws at the United States.. after all, they are deserved, are they not. Either you are unfamiliar with America's imperialist history, or you want to overlook it to protect your own comfort. It makes you feel like someone to be identified with America "The Greatest Superpower in the World" You would rather turn your head and protect your own self image that you are a part of the greatest country in the world. That is the problem with patriotism, it prevents us from objectively looking at the wrongs we are commiting around the world.
Also, why should Chomsky leave, it;s his country too, he lives here, he has the right to stay here. You seem to be saying that if someone has a drastically different idea of what the country should be, they should leave. That sounds like a totalitarian state of government, not a democracy. We do have a democracy don't we? Well, a poor excuse for one anyway, because of the intolerance of new ideas, which you rayboy, are contributing to.
Chomsky's Vile Anti-American Bile.......2006-08-07
Noam Chomsky has thrived greatly in this great country of his, yours, and mine - the United States of America. He has made millions of dollars teaching, lecturing, selling his books, and investing. His world-wide fame in psycholinguistics is well-deserved. His infamy is merited for his lack of loyalty to his own Jewish ethnicity and the U.S., in spite of the fruits he has received by being a citizen of the United States. He has repaid this country in bile with his incredibly biased analysis of American foreign policy. He goes way beyond a balanced multiculturism, when he always ranks the U.S. and Israel as foremost among the terrorist forces in the world now, and even in history. His distrust of any authority, benign or otherwise, is reflected in his dogmatic and unexamined support of the "underdog," even if that underdog is a suicide bomber or a major terrorist organization such as Al Queda or Hezbollah.
Yet since 1955, hypocrite Chomsky has worked for the "overdog" Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which has actively and enthusiastically participated in the development of weapons of War and mass destruction, and continues to this very day.
Chomsky trumps his own potential for gifted analytic objectivity with his simple hatred of the United States and the Jewish State.
If he were not so attached to the freedom of making money, earning the adulation of the American Left, and freedom to express himself, he might be able to give more direct and personal support for our enemies and his friends by taking up residence in North Korea, Iran, or Syria. Let us hope he retires outside of our homeland that he hates so much, the United States of America.
God Bless America, which will continue to give Chomsky the right to speak, teach, and make lots of money.
Rayboy
And the truth shall make you free.......2005-09-19
"One may choose to have selective faith in the domestic political leadership, adopting the stance that Hans Morgenthau, one of the founders of modern international relations theory, condemned as 'our conformist subservience to those in power'--THE REGULAR STANCE OF MOST INTELLECTUALS THROUGHOUT HISTORY. But it is important to recognize that PROFESSION OF NOBLE INTENT[by political and military leaders] IS PREDICTABLE AND THEREFORE CARRIES NO INFORMATION, even in the technical sense of the term. Those who are seriously interested in understanding the world will adopt the same standards whether they are evaluating their own political and intellectual elites or those of official enemies. One might fairly ask how much [American rhetoric] would survive this elementary exercise of rationality and honesty."
Noam Chomsky
HEGEMONY OR SURVIVAL:
AMERICA'S QUEST FOR
GLOBAL DOMINANCE
From Chapter Two:
"Grand Imperial Strategy"
(emphasis mine)
THE CHOMSKY READER, redundant as it may sound, is great for the skeptical intellectual. The kind who (for whatever reason) needs more than simply his investigative journalist/college professor credentials and source materials voluminously footnoted in every one of his books to accept the truth of what he has to say. In fact, for those who would question his patriotism, given his penchant for speaking truth to power, this may be one of the most disturbing--and exhilarating--of his more than seventy books in print. His laser-like, X-ray vision analysis of the covert brutality of American foreign policy--Orwellian Newspeak that accompanies it--is revealed to not just have a basis in grade school integrity, cutting edge linguistics and modern anarchism, but even moreso in the philosophical principles of the Enlightment: those funny ideas that gained popularity around when our Constitution was written.
In one of the many essays that make up this collection, Chomsky quotes an English economist during the Cold War years that says America is not an enemy of Communism, but an enemy of DEVELOPMENT. This can be considered, above and beyond all other themes that Chomsky routinely returns to in all of his books, to be the central one of this outing and perhaps the foundational message of his entire career. Throughout every essay in this volume, from about 1970 to 1988, Chomsky shows that American foreign policy has been centered around the prevention of any and all development around the world--economically and politically--that does not further facilitate American post-World War II imperialism. Whether it be the repeated secret invasions and tacit military/economic support of death squads and dictators in Latin America and the Middle East, preventing democracy from flowering in these countries since (at least) the fifties...the myth of Chinese and Russian communism running the show in Vietnam, justifying the slaughter of millions of civilians and the destruction of their country's entire infrastructure (beginning to develop under their own brand of communism much better, and with less murders, than under the brutal French colonial system of the fifties)...the use of the CIA and military to disrupt even the thought of pan-Asian, Indian or pan-African coalitions producing an economic unity/development agenda that leaves out the "interests" of Europeans and American corporations...all of American foreign policy since World War II, and much of it beforehand, is an expession of this golden rule: *prevent uncontrollable world development at any cost.* And the phenomenal uses of the military abroad and propaganda at home, via the corruption of the media and our intellectuals, facilitate the total control this state dynamic has on our national character and public mind.
The core of this book's brilliance is revealed via Chomsky's revealing of the philosphical foundations of his world view. It is like reading a political version of the movie ADAPTATION. He shows under no uncertain terms how this *prevent development* rule in American politics, driven by military force, affects all of us. But more importantly, he shows his political philosophy's roots in modern anarchism to be, in themselves, the next phase in the natural developmental path of the democratic principles of the Enlightenment of the 18th century; something that sounds inmpossible only because such intellectual, moral and social development WITHIN our culture has been all but stamped out by the modern American Police State to the same degree basic human rights, democracy and economic development is being stamped out of so many countries outside of it for most of this century.
Is it possible to use Marxian analysis without being a Marxist--in fact, ripping apart Marxist hypocrisy in practice while using it--in a blistering critique of American hypocrisy? Is it possible to make such historical events as the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s revelvant to the families of fallen soldiers in an illegal and immoral war with today's Iraq? Is it possible to do all this in a way that makes one's love of the real American spirit joyfully obvious? And can it be done in a way that won't put the average person to sleep? Read this book and see; I challenge you to be able to put it down.
Anti-American leftirst.......2004-06-21
Mr. Chomsky, a widely famous leftist, is also known as a supporter of global Arab fascism and anti-Semitism. All his books on Middle East are based on his profound ignorance of the Middle East history, twisting the facts, and hate of the state of Israel, our only true ally in the region. Instead of this book, I highly recommend "The Anti-Chomsky Reader" edited by Peter Collier and David Horowitz.
A great resource.......2003-06-20
The Chomsky reader is a must for anyone, liberal or conservative, who seeks insight away from the mainstream media. I think he is overboard at times but the viewpoint is unvaluable and stimulating.
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- Check Out Chomsky's Lesser Known Books
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Peter Collier and David Horowitz have assembled a set of provocative essays that analyze Noam Chomsky's intellectual career and the evolution of his anti-Americanism.
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Beginning with his criticism of the Vietnam War in the 1960s, MIT professor Noam Chomsky has become better known for his radical politics than for his theories of language. These essays scrutinize both the theories and the politics: linguists Paul Postal and Robert Levine reevaluate Chomsky's linguistics to find parallels with his politics; scholar Paul Bogdanor explores Chomsky's hatred of Israel; Ronald Radosh and David Horowitz discuss Chomsky's gloating reaction to the September 11 attacks; and other authors examine Chomsky's Holocaust revisionism, apologies for Khmer Rouge tyrant Pol Pot, and strident views on America's policies in Latin America.
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lowest form of brown-stuff.......2007-09-15
Chomsky has been rated as the world's no 1 intellectual only partly because of his groundbreaking work in linguistics ( he is sometimes called the Einstein of linguistics), but mainly because his political criticism/journalism has, despite every obstruction from the powerful and almost total blackout by the media (though his name has cropped up more often recently), worked it's way over 40 years into the mind's of millions as the most lucid, thorough and consistent appraisal of the inadequacies of the 'system' we live under and of the venality and inhumanity of the elites who run it.
There are increasingly many critics of his linguistic work, as of Einstein's work; some may quibble with his style - I think he overuses elaborate sarcasms to the extent that, while always entertaining, they sometimes necessitate a couple of readings to get the point; he may get things wrong occasionally - he is the first to admit this - he doesn't claim to be an infallible prophet, but I find it remarkable how hard it is to find anything at all that he did get wrong, which is why his critics are usually reduced to misrepresenting him i.e. the most recurring slander that he praised Pol Pot - in fact, at the time of the initial Khmer Rouge takeover, Chomsky asked why the media were giving so much attention to alleged crimes in Cambodian for which, AT THE TIME. there was next to no substantial evidence, while the media ignored the concurrent Indonesian massacres in East Timor for which, AT THE TIME, there was massive evidence - because Indonesia was 'our type of people'. Like everyone else he has since accepted the substantial evidence against the Pol Pot regime and has, like John Pilger, written much on the support by the USA and the UK for his regime after their crimes were well known; after the Khmer Rouge were ousted and survived as guerrilla groups in the forest, the USA/UK recognised them as the legitimate government of Cambodia, and pressurised the UN to accept a Khmer Rouge as the rep for Cambodia at the UN. If you want the rest of the story read Chomsky or Pilger.
But to cricise Chomsky for bias, dishonesty and all the rest is just slander. It takes a lot of time and work to shake of the propagandised view of the world fed to us by the rich man's media - if you read Chomsky and Pilger you might want to check out their statements with further reading, all of which takes time and money - more than most people can afford! So I can understand people being skeptical and reluctant to accept that practically everything they've taken for granted about the world is untrue. But at least one good thing has come out of the Bush preisidency - the barefaced mendacity over Iraq, Hurricane Katrina, the stolen elections and so much else has at least raised questions in a lot more minds.
I've already said more than this nasty little book merits; there is a species of hack who makes a living by pretending to be left, liberal, caring sharing (or something) while attacking a mythological 'left' for holding views that in fact no-one of the 'left' actually holds, and Chomsky, being the most enduring, prolific and articulate spokesman for the human race, is their most common target. The author and editor of the anti-Chomsky reader are of that species of hack. They are loathsome, malignant intellectual dwarves.
Don't waste your time and money - read all you can get of Chomsky and Pilger instead. If there is a future in which books can be freely read and published (in whatever format)Chomsky will be revered in the way we revere the great Greek and Roman writers, as the most perceptive analystInterventions (City Lights Open Media) of our times.
Pure Tripe.......2007-08-10
I own this book with about 25 other Chomsky books. Anyone familiar with his works will notice how things are distorted out of context to the point of absurdity. Equating anti-America and anti-Israel simply because he speaks out against the abuses of the two governments is a petty play on words.
Im not going to bother doing anything but urging people to read up on the workds of Chomsky and compare it with this book. The lies, distortions and pathetic attempt to demonize Noam is ridiculous. Every claim in this book has been addressed. All the readers have to do is look and see the truth for themselves.
Hilarious.......2007-08-03
This edited volume features an assortment of ex-leftists and Zionists throwing everything at Chomsky, including the kitchen sink. Many of the contributors fail to see the irony in devoting an entire book to trashing a man they accuse of being irrelevant.
Aside from a few debatable criticisms of Chomsky's linguistic theory, the most this work can do is find Chomsky guilty by association. Big deal.
Check Out Chomsky's Lesser Known Books.......2007-06-10
THE ANTI-CHOMSKY READER is a collection of essays by David Horowitz and Peter Collier the purpose of which is to refute the charges of Noam Chomsky, the leftist linguistics professor of MIT, that the United States is a rogue terrorist regime that is responsible for nearly all of the assorted ills and travails of this planet's third world countries. The first question that came to my mind was why was there a need for such an anti-text in the first place? The answer of course is that either one accepts Chomsky at his word that the United States is the world's most evil regime of the 20th century or one does not. For those who do accept his word, there is THE CHOMSKY READER, edited by James Peck. For those who do not and in the interest of fair play there is this book.
Horowitz and Collier include essays that attack Chomsky's inner core of anti-American screeds. These essays include Chomsky's comments on the legitimacy and humanity of the Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge regimes; his assertion that the Cold War was merely a façade behind which the United States continued to seek to expand its post WWII hegemony; his claim that the major media in this country exist only to inculcate "the values that compel obedience to the myths sustaining an aggressive and immoral capitalist system." (Page 69); his bias against Israel that he sees as the sole cause of unrest in the Middle East; and his vision of a morally corrupt capitalist America that fully deserved 9/11. What becomes clear after reading these essays as well as THE CHOMSKY READER is that Chomsky is a one-trick pony. He exists only to bash the United States. Nowhere in any of his writings is there even a hint of praise for America. Chomsky would rather call Marx a capitalist than to say even one kind word about the Founding Fathers. Even if he believed that the United States is truly the demonic plague of the third world, then in the interests of fair play one might think he could mention proudly even one of the following: the Declaration of Independence, Jonas Salk, Orville and Wilbur Wright, and Apollo to the moon.
For those like Mr. Bloom, the Amazon.Com defender of Chomsky, one might do more than accuse Chomsky's detractors of shoddy scholarship. One might instead refer to areas not often mentioned by Mr. Bloom or any Chomsky supporter--Chomsky's vast corpus of earlier texts that never hit the best seller list. It is in these texts that one reads of Chomsky's unabashed admiration for Neo-Nazi writers like Faurisson, Guillaume, and anti-Semitic journals like La Vielle Taupe. His supporters of course either do not know or do not wish to know of them. I have no objection to anyone who thinks that the United States is responsible for much of what Chomsky claims, but it is not unimportant to see how and to what extant such criticisms connect to clearly a lunatic fringe. And it is this unsavory alliance of Chomsky to Neo-Nazis that renders his judgment as questionable at best and irrelevant at worst.
Not as helpful as other methods to deal with the possesed, but you gotta improvise.......2007-04-13
If you hope to use this book as fodder to argue with a Chomskyite, good luck. Chomsky is better than Jesus to his crowd. YOU MUST UNDERSTAND: CHOMSKY HAS NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER MADE A MISTAKE.
Chomsky = (Jesus + [crack])^(googleplex).
The argument between Chomskyites and Anit-Chomskyites can quickly be reduced to an argument between science and romanticism, but the metaphor isn't worth the candle. Instead, think of Chomskyites as "The Borg" espousing science and facts as their mantra and legitimization of their agenda and the scientific perfection of man and history. Chomsky is in full drag as their Borg Queen (next miracle: bilocation! Chomsky both did, and did not, defend the Khmer Rouge!). Think of Anti-Chomskities as "Q" and are all, from the Chomskyite's perspective "Mad, bad and dangerous to know."
Anti-Chomsky slogan: "Zombies, man. They creep me out."
Chomskyite slogan: "resistance is futile."
"Father give me the Bull of Heaven,
So he can kill Gilgamesh in his dwelling.
If you do not give me the Bull of Heaven,
I will knock down the Gates of the Netherworld,
I will smash the doorposts, and leave the doors flat down,
and will let the dead go up to eat the living!
And the dead will outnumber the living!
It will be awful!"
But the ultimate tactic of Chomskyites is to bog you down in an endless hermeneutic circle, where Chomsky's sloppy footnotes are "documented" and "authority" while any picayune errors in anti-Chomsky citations are thus rendered "meaningless" "suspect" and "ideologically agenda driven." Rather than engage in the unendlischgeschicte soul-sucking of the ideological swamp these incubi and succubi will lure you to, follow this advice from George Romero:
"Field Reporter: Chief, if I were surrounded by eight or ten of these things, would I stand a chance with them?
Sheriff McClelland: Well, there's no problem. If you have a gun, shoot 'em in the head. That's a sure way to kill 'em. If you don't, get yourself a club or a torch. Beat 'em or burn 'em. They go up pretty easy."
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Cuba is often perceived in starkly black and white termsâeither as the site of one of Latin America’s most successful revolutions or as the bastion of the world’s last communist regime. The Cuba Reader multiplies perspectives on the nation many times over, presenting more than one hundred selections about Cuba’s history, culture, and politics. Beginning with the first written account of the island, penned by Christopher Columbus in 1492, the selections assembled here track Cuban history from the colonial period through the ascendancy of Fidel Castro to the present.
The Cuba Reader combines songs, paintings, photographs, poems, short stories, speeches, cartoons, government reports and proclamations, and pieces by historians, journalists, and others. Most of these are by Cubans, and many appear for the first time in English. The writings and speeches of José MartÃ, Fernando Ortiz, Fidel Castro, Alejo Carpentier, Che Guevera, and Reinaldo Arenas appear alongside the testimonies of slaves, prostitutes, doctors, travelers, and activists. Some selections examine health, education, Catholicism, and santerÃa; others celebrate Cuba’s vibrant dance, music, film, and literary cultures. The pieces are grouped into chronological sections. Each section and individual selection is preceded by a brief introduction by the editors.
The volume presents a number of pieces about twentieth-century Cuba, including the events leading up to and following Castro’s January 1959 announcement of revolution. It provides a look at Cuba in relation to the rest of the world: the effect of its revolution on Latin America and the Caribbean, its alliance with the Soviet Union from the 1960s until the collapse of the Soviet bloc in 1989, and its tumultuous relationship with the United States. The Cuba Reader also describes life in the periodo especial following the cutoff of Soviet aid and the tightening of the U.S. embargo.
For students, travelers, and all those who want to know more about the island nation just ninety miles south of Florida, The Cuba Reader is an invaluable introduction.
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Cuban Documentary History..........2007-05-14
This is the best documentary history of Cuba printed recently. It has not only documents, but also pictures, songs, etc. As Cuba is a controversial subject, the authors give broad swath of documents to present Cuban history.
A True Picture of Cuban History.......2006-08-06
I have always been interested in Cuba, but I have tended to focus on the Health System there and have learned very little about Cuba before Castro and the revolution. This book gives an overall picture of Cuba as it developed through the years from all different perspectives, both positive and negative. Even though the different sections are simply short excerpts from different works, the editors have been able to put everything together in order to show all different aspects of Cuba and its history.
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from the back cover of the book:.......2007-07-28
An easy way to begin to understand the amazing thinker and man. From the back cover:
Noam Chomsky has written some 30 books, he is the most-quoted author on earth. The New York Times calls him "arguably the most intelligent intellectual alive" -- yet most people have no idea who he is or what he's about. CHOMSKY FOR BEGINNERS tells you what he's about: Chomsky is known for his work in two distinct areas -- Linguistics and... "Gadflying." ("Gadfly," the word applied to Socrates, comes closest to the constant social irritant that Chomsky has become.) It is Chomsky's work as Political Gadfly and Media Critic that has given passion and hope to the general public -- and alienated the major media -- which, of course, is why you don't know more about him.
Chomsky's messagte is very simple: Huge corporations run our country, the world, both political parties, and Major Media. (You suspected it; Chomsky proves it.) If enough people open their minds to what he has to say, the whole gingerbread fantasy we've been fed about America might vanish like the Emperor's clothes... and America might turn into a real Democracy.
What's so special about CHOMSKY FOR BEGINNERS? The few existing intros to Chomsky cover either Chomsky-the-Linguist OR Chomsky-the-Political-Gadfly. CHOMSKY FOR BEGINNERS covers both -- plus an excluve interview with the maverick genius. The clarity of David Cogswell's text and the wit of Paul Gordon's illustrations make Chomsky as easy to understand as the genius next door. Words and art combine to clarify (but not oversimplify) the work and to "humorize" the man who may very well be what one savvy interviewer called him -- "the smartest man on earth."
A True 'Beginners' Book.......2007-05-21
I have been meaning to write a review for this book for a very long time... For me, this is the quintessential beginner's book on Chomsky... As both my husband and I are avid political activists, we have been occasionally frustrated, and quite often saddened, by the fact that so many people we meet have no idea who Noam Chomsky is... It is no good preaching to the choir, we are out there to give folk the opportunity to expand their political awareness, to entertain some new ideas, to think from a different perspective... Indeed, to even begin to 'think' at all...
When we are met with, 'Noam Chomsky who? huh?', this is the book we recommend, and have given out over the years I don't know how many times; we just keep replacing it, *lol*
Why is this book so invaluable? Because it is succinct, (153 pages), visually funny and, in a nutshell, entertaining from beginning to end... But do not mistake the 'fun' for 'fluff'... This book packs a most powerful punch in that it is essentially a primer for looking at the way one thinks, and how one goes about the process of beginning to think 'critically' instead of thinking 'emotionally'.
Given the State of the Union these days, more and more people are questioning not only the trustworthiness of their leaders, but the very process of governing itself... They are asking, 'How did it come to this?'... Through this book, they can see how the 'messaging' takes place through the use and manipulation of the media and political spin... they can see how they've been, and are continuing to be, influenced... and once this revelation takes place, they are much more prone to relegating 'emotion' to its rightful place while simultaneously beginning the journey of 'critical thinking'...
All of this takes place in this perfect little beginner's book... Giving someone just stepping into the fray of politics a book such as, 'The Essential Chomsky', (500 pages), will daunt them to the point of regressing back into their shell of complacency... Giving them, 'Chomsky for Beginners', will teach them, entertain them, and spur them on to finding out more... and when that happens, we then recommend the 'Real Story Series' with books such as, 'The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many', 'The Common Good', 'Take the Rich Off Welfare', or 'What Uncle Sam Really Wants'... all books that are also packed with a punch, but very succinct, (100-200 pages), and easy to understand...
I cannot recommend highly enough, 'Chomsky for Beginners'... David Cogswell and Paul Gordon have gifted us with a brand of genius that teaches through the art of tweeking our funny-bone... Huzzah! for their brilliance, *vbs*
I recommend this book to Chomsky fans.......2004-12-11
I never knew who Chomsky was until I saw him on TV. I noticed he was very sharp and punctual when he spoke. It intrigued to get a book by him, but it was too heavy. Luckily, I found this book. This book allowed me to understand Chomsky in a another form of intelligence through pictures and vocabulary I could comprehend.
It covers many actual quotes and text which really makes Chomsky truly be a genius people should read and understand.
A helpful beginning place for the Chomsky reader.......2004-06-28
CHOMSKY FOR BEGINNERS will be of help to anyone interested in the works of Noam Chomsky. It is true that the focus of the book is mainly on his work in political science, but I think that is logical since that is what he is most famous for, outside of scientific circles at least. And while the description of his work in linguistics is certainly brief and relatively superficial, I have to humbly admit that even at that rate it was over my head - I've had to re-read that section several times, and I still don't think I quite get it.
I know that as a "serious" student of his works, I am supposed to be somewhat offended by the depiction of Chomsky as a superhero cartoon character with an "N" on his shirt. But to be honest, I kind of liked the cartoons. Chomsky's work and intellect are often so astonishing that it can be a bit intimidating. I mean, this man has been referred to as "arguably the most important living intellectual," "maybe the smartest man in the world," and ranks just behind Plato and Freud on the list of the most-quoted authors; Chomsky is the most-quoted living author. It's hard to imagine, to "image," this remarkable man and his remarkable career. Within the course of the answer to a three-sentence question, Chomsky will often reference history - off of the top of his head - going back five centuries. This can be overwhelming, and it can seem a bit intangible. Also, as CHOMSKY FOR BEGINNERS details, his double career and path to it is very unconventional. Somehow, seeing somewhat crudely drawn cartoons of Chomsky throughout his career gives me something tangible to interpret, to relate to. I've heard that it is an aspect of human cognitive abilities to need symbols in the quest to understand a given topic. For me, that's what the cartoons are - symbols that help me understand.
The only concern I have with CHOMSKY FOR BEGINNERS is that it occasionally refers to Noam Chomsky as a "radical." As Chomsky himself has pointed out many times, there is nothing radical about his political work. His interviews, lectures, and books, often reference the mainstream papers like the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, etc. What Chomsky doesn't indulge in is "the doctrine of change of course." This doctrine holds that the mistakes and atrocities of the governing power of the moment, the United States for example, are automatically erased from history. For example, the fact that the United States government once aided Saddam and considered him an allay, or that the United States government at one time supported Hitler and Mussolini, or that under the Reagan administration tens of thousands were slaughtered in Central American, are no longer admissible into any mainstream political debate. If you bring up such things you are labeled a "radical." But I don't see much radical in simply being honest about history.
Andrew Michael Parodi
Great introduction to the man behind the truth!.......2002-07-21
This is definitely an interesting bathroom book. Take Noam Chomsky, social irritant and world-renowned Linguistics expert, and tell his story in a documentary comic book. Add some background information about the science of Linguistics as well as plenty of info about the American Capitalist machine, and you got quite an interesting read that you can pick up and put down whenever you're up for a quick paragraph or two.
Noam Chomsky isn't that well known. And that's because the powers that be want it that way. Chomsky's goal in life is to open the eyes and ears of the American public so that they'll take a better look around once in a while and see what's really going on. He takes on capitalism and the American government all the time. And because the American media machine is owned by some big corporations, don't expect to be hearing anything soon from the man, unless you crawl out from under the big money umbrella and dig around a bit.
I think that most people will ignore him, not because they don't believe what he has to say, but because they are afraid of the truth. They like to go along making their money, spending it the same thinking that all is fine in the world and that good ol' USA will carry the burdens of freedom and Democracy as it's fights the evils of the world. But that's just not the way it is. The truth is a lot darker than that. Yes, America once stood for democracy and greatness. But it lost it's direction along the way when the dollar signs floated in front of it's eyes.
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- superficial, and full of rhetoric
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ASIN: B000974PBE
Release Date: 2006-07-14 |
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This digital document is an article from Reason, published by Reason Foundation on April 1, 2005. The length of the article is 1974 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Deconstructing Chomsky: America's leading leftist intellectual sees what he wants to see and disregards the rest.(Culture and Reviews)(Book Review)
Author: Mark Bauerlein
Publication:
Reason (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2005
Publisher: Reason Foundation
Volume: 36
Issue: 11
Page: 57(4)
Article Type: Book Review
Distributed by Thomson Gale
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superficial, and full of rhetoric.......2005-11-26
I have not read "The Anti-Chomsky Reader", however Mark Bauerlein's
review loses it's credibility with the first paragraph when it regards
Chomsky as someone who loves Soviet Union, (a quotation from
George Orwell in this conservative review is also ironic) which
is far from reality.
Does Mark Bauerlenain know that George Orwell fought with anarcho-
syndicalists against Franco's fascist army? Does he know George Orwell
promoted democratic socialism in his works?
Perhaps Orwell, and Chomsky criticise the very same authoritarian
structure in their works? Mark Bauerlein seems to misunderstand
George Orwell as well as Noam Chomsky.
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A disgraceful career.(Book Review): An article from: New Criterion
Keith Windschuttle
Manufacturer: Foundation for Cultural Review
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
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ASIN: B000842F7Y
Release Date: 2005-08-01 |
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This digital document is an article from New Criterion, published by Foundation for Cultural Review on September 1, 2004. The length of the article is 1863 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: A disgraceful career.(Book Review)
Author: Keith Windschuttle
Publication:
New Criterion (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2004
Publisher: Foundation for Cultural Review
Volume: 23
Issue: 1
Page: 61(4)
Article Type: Book Review
Distributed by Thomson Gale
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Chomsky Reader
Noam Chomsky
Manufacturer: Serpents Tail
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000K7MO5W |
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