r/chomsky • u/PrismPhoneService • 1d ago
Video This gets pulled from every relevant sub after thousands of up’s.. it’s like the MossadMods don’t care it’s on capitalism and not Israel, they just seem Chomsky and freak.
Entitled “the difference between abstract propaganda and objective history” and mods strip it without sighting relevant rules, did Mossad finally get at least one mod they pay on every sub over 100k or something? It’s not like I tried posting it on world news.
In other news.. when people talk about “genocide denial” in Yugoslavia or Cambodia, since there is such ample writings and lecture in which he discusses it at length never denying a single atrocity by either side.. do we like definitively know who started and nowadays keeps propagating that falsity? I remember those lies too when I was 18, I’m 35 now.. how the hell do people still persist in them? Is Jordan Peterson or Joe Rogan spreading that tired lie still and I just missed it?
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u/Lamont-Cranston 1d ago
it is good because it is good
that is bad because it is bad
Wonderful argument.
The statement of Socialism is your labor is owed to the society. The notion of Socialism is that you do not own your own freedom. You do not own your own time. You do not own your own labor. You do not own your own work. You do not own the products of your own work.
Citation please.
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u/TwistedBrother 19h ago
I saw Chomsky speak live once. There were three ladies who looked like you’d expect given the context. Every time Chomsky said anything about Israel they tutted and clucked loudly as if it was their right to disrupt the audience or I guess otherwise they wouldn’t exist?
We were not there to hear a peanut gallery gasp at every assertion; it was beyond irritating and wholly disrespectful.
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u/JerseyFlight 1d ago
More hammering. More driving these points home and exposing the tyranny, deconstructing the ideology of capitalism so our fellow humans can exist the Matrix.
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u/RaindropsInMyMind 1d ago
I won’t go on a rant about being cancelled or whatever but in my mind Chomsky is one of the best examples of someone being judged by a singular moment. People refer to one single thing he said in his entire intellectual career which spans most of a century and use that bit, which isn’t even true and is taken out of context, to discredit everything he says both before and after. Once you research it on a basic level you realize that it’s not actually true and he didn’t mean what people think he meant.
In this video we continue to see him taken out of context, it’s a fabricated debate on a topic he’s not discussing. The worst part is that people don’t look up the context because they don’t care. The people they put together these videos know that, there is no standard of truth or quality they are beholden to.
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u/Explaining2Do 1d ago
Who is taken out of context? Chomsky? I’m Uber familiar with his books and talks, so what are you referring to?
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u/Cautious_Year 12h ago
More people should be pushing these commentators to accurately define socialism before taking seriously anything they have to say about it.
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u/mmmfritz 1d ago
Control, freedom, autonomy….
How about the people who build it, also get their fair share in return?
Talk about tyranny, having to prepare, manage, and deal with the MOP but having zero ownership.
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u/AHipstersWhispers 14h ago
We live in a private tyranny. Fair share in return is dubious at best in most industries.
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u/LowKitchen3355 1d ago
We compare these two? Its' too disrespectful. The fact that moron starts his argument with "capitalism is good... socialism is bad...", oh god.