Caleb Maupin calls out Chomsky’s crude anticommunism

Caleb Maupin

EDITED BY PATRICE GREANVILLE
Dispatch dateline: Jun 8, 2022

Editor's Note:
For all his anti-imperialist rhetoric, Chomsky remains a controversial and deeply contradictory individual. Defining himself often as an anarchist—a form of adventuristic ultra-leftism—he is prone to criticise in harsh terms Lenin and Stalinism, that is any truly existing socialist government, be it China, Cuba, North Korea, Nicaragua, Venezuela, or the Soviet Union. In that way he ends up denouncing imperialism but canceling the denunciation by also attacking socialist nations under Imperialist attack. This is the "plague on both your houses" approach that is typical of many so-called "liberal progressives". Chomsky also has a terribly naive conception of how the working class can attain power. In his book Turning the Tide, he argues that socialism can be secured in the US via the ballot box. —PG

See also:
Chomsky’s libertarian/anarcho-syndicalist mentality has undermined, if not denied, his credibility as an anti-imperialist.

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Caleb Maupin is a widely acclaimed speaker, writer, journalist, and political analyst. He has traveled extensively in the Middle East and in Latin America. He was involved with the Occupy Wall Street movement from its early planning stages, and has been involved many struggles for social justice. He is an outspoken advocate of international friendship and cooperation, as well as 21st Century Socialism.