Re: Norm Pie-in-the-sky Chomsky
The strangest part is that the opposite of the things he rants against are even worse. For example, he rails against capitalism; yet as flawed as capitalism may be, communism is far worse. Communism killed more millions in the 20th century than any other "ism"--perhaps 100 million or so people--all for a pie-in-the-sky ideal which didn't work out (every communist country has been an immense economic failure). He ranted against the USA, although it's "opposite", the USSR, was far worse.
So: Chomsky loves to criticize the Western world and especially the USA. While he may only allude to what he sees as better large-scale solutions, I suspect that his solutions, if tried, would also be found in actuality to be far worse.
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