>>734474Sure and Hasan Piker is a "communist".
Chomsky is a lesser-evil electoralist who frequently supports the genocidal ultracapitalist Democratic Party, legitimized myths about big bad spooky Marxists to the wider US left and if one of his political legacies is making anti-imperialism more tenable, another is helping draw an enduring line between acceptable anti-authoritarian leftism and supposedly cuckoo tyrannical far-leftism.
Mind you that unlike a lot of weirdos here I don't think anyone has a moral obligation to be a radical or that not being one automatically disqualifies you as a valuable voice, but Chomsky went way beyond that by using his reach to justify and legitimize American neoliberal ideas. I refuse to treat him as an actual radical just because he calls himself one.