Thanks Dennis. That article contains a link - to the best and most insightful authority in my view on Chomsky, who has written now a stand-alone article - which does reflect his own book. In my prior messages on Chomsky - going back some years actually - I have used and cited Chris Knight: Decoding Chomsky : Science and Revolutionary Politics, Yale University Press, 2016
(See most recently hari kumar -> Feb 7 #40565) … He did… write and propagandise for us - & I am sure that helped many come over to us: "… writing those (very helpful) 100-page books that people can read”. (hari kumar Feb 4 #40513)... The complexities and many vintages of Chomsky’s linguistic theories (in the plural as he kept shifting ground as empirical errors of his reasoning were exposed) – often obscure his vision. What was the core concept he formulated? This was idealist and not materialist. So the body of his thinking was, says William Chaney as an “idealist philosopher”... “Chomsky rejects the ‘rather obscure’ Marxist notion of the dialectic, dismissing it as ‘a kind of ritual term which people use when they are talking about situations of conflict and so on’. Knight, Chris. Decoding Chomsky : Science and Revolutionary Politics, Yale University Press, 2016”; p.6 Given the bullshit that is often passed off as “dialectics’, this is semi-understandable. However, Chomsky instead heads off to Plato. As Chris Knight says: “He shows no appetite for dwelling on contradictions”. Knight, Chris. Decoding Chomsky, 2016; Ibid p. 6.”) I strongly recommend both that book,. but if this is too much time - look at Chris Knight’s distillation of his book as adapted to the new data of the “Epstein Affair” -> https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/02/06/the-chomsky-epstein-puzzle/ Hari Kumar -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#40713): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/40713 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/117856310/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
