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Comment by GaryTang | Hacker News Reader

Agreed. This piece is your standard run-of-the-mill, misguided, Pro-China propaganda.

How is this interview pro-china?

I don't like the way Chomsky says stuff, nor do I agree with a good chunk of it. but the only mention of China is his belief that the US is picking a fight with force as if almost 'just because that's who the US is.'

Noam Chomsky is an old-school American academic who has been consistent in his political positions. This "piece" is just quoting him talk at length. Pro-Chinese propaganda?

If you know, you know.

Noam Chomsky is a commie. It's actually quite baffling that he is - I'm sure he understands the inevitable horrors of that ideology better than most people, and knows it can't work, yet he keeps preaching it regardless.

I do enjoy reading some of his work, however. His critique of mass media, for example, is on point, as is his critique of the security state, and the military industrial complex.

But one would have to be absolutely insane to listen to anything Chomsky has to say about economics - dude never held a real job and spent his entire life in academia.

He is not a Communist, as anyone who has read any of his work would know. Perhaps that was not the assertion though, as the term "commie" is an essentially meaningless form of abuse.

He is, according to his own words "anarchist with radical Marxist leanings". That's what Lenin was until Bolsheviks won.

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