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Re:Still Manufacturing Consent: An Interview with Noam Chomsky by nickik on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @11:12AM (#21271220)
Because he is a full on Communist. Its not that hard to understand.
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Re:Still Manufacturing Consent: An Interview with Noam Chomsky by bigmanwalter on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @12:07PM (#21271928)
Technically he's an anarchist. https://www.alternet.org/2013/05/noam-chomsky-kind-anarchism...
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Re:Still Manufacturing Consent: An Interview with Noam Chomsky by basq on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @12:29PM (#21272235)
Technically, he's an anarcho-syndicalist.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Noam_...

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Re:Still Manufacturing Consent: An Interview with Noam Chomsky by fit2rule on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @11:55AM (#21271770)
By what measure is he, or indeed anyone really, a "full on Communist"? I have always believed there have never been any real ones.
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Re:Still Manufacturing Consent: An Interview with Noam Chomsky by everybodyknows on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @12:24PM (#21272166)
Sure there were -- thousands died fighting Franco, in Spain. See George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia, or Whitaker Chambers' Witness.
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Re:Still Manufacturing Consent: An Interview with Noam Chomsky by posterboy on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @12:09PM (#21271967)
"communist" in the singular is kind of an auto-oxymoron, isn't it?!
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