Who knows? Who cares to find out? Chomsky is an ideological windvane.

He’s… fine when he’s criticizing the US empire but there are much better sources out there and Chomsky is only useful for his prominence but much like Richard Wolff he’s got some really trash takes (barely) below the surface.

Is it because he’s an op? Is he a reflection of the ideological hangover from the New Left era? Is he just an opportunist? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Chomsky is what zero materialism does to an MFer. Here he is, literally arguing for MLism in a completely different context:

I’m not in favor of people being in cages.

On the other hand I think people ought to be in cages if there’s a saber-toothed tiger wandering around outside and if they go out of the cage the saber-toothed tiger will kill them. So sometimes there’s a justification for cages. That doesn’t mean cages are good things.

State power is a good example of a necessary cage. There are saber-toothed tigers outside; they are called transnational corporations which are among the most tyrannical totalitarian institutions that human society has devised. And there is a cage, namely the state, which to some extent is under popular control. The cage is protecting people from predatory tyrannies so there is a temporary need to maintain the cage, and even to extend the cage.

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Went on a reporting spree a while back when there was yet-another Pinochet/helicopter meme video and all the comments were like “Better dead than red” and advocating for torture and expressing the desire to do this themselves and shit.

You can already guess that the admins couldn’t see any validity to the claims about inciting violence, can’t you?

Getting banned from Reddit is like receiving a restraining order from the local sewage processing facility.

Sucks to hear that you got banned without cause, especially given how cautious you were to avoid trouble, but take it as a good indication of how cynical Reddit admins are and how they will take any measures to ensure that the discourse on reddit will never be revolutionary.

“Hey Communist Party of Great Britain (ML), how’s it going?”

“Bourgeoise.”

“…yeah.”

The absolute state of UK politics when the communist party can’t even spell bourgeoisie right.

What a stupid hill to die on.

There are actual problems to deal with that are a far greater priority than this one, even if you are a transphobic revolutionary and for some cursed hellworld reason that this article of theirs has any relevance to reality (which btw it does not); imagine prioritizing this over capitalism, imperialism, fascism, neoliberalism, the climate crisis…

The sooner that the senescent “empire” collapses into the obscurity it deserves, the better. I just hope it takes the CPGB-ML and all the transphobes on terf island with it.