Re:Who Needs a Boss?
by pekk on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @12:30PM
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Instead of reading Noam Chomsky's propaganda written from great distance (knowing that Chomsky has been an apologist for e.g. the Khmer Rouge), just read Orwell's Homage to Catalonia where he relates direct experience. Or any other primary source.
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"(knowing that Chomsky has been an apologist for e.g. the Khmer Rouge)"
By my reading, this is an overstatement. My understanding, having dug into the issue a bit some years back, is that he was skeptical of the reporting; arguably overly skeptical, and certainly incorrect in retrospect, but that's not quite the same thing as supporting or condoning.
Re:Who Needs a Boss?
by icebraining on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @01:38PM
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I don't know Chomsky's work, but Orwell's is great (at least so far). But he says much of the same in chapter 5: http://www.telelib.com/authors/O/OrwellGeorge/prose/HomageTo...