This is the only logical way of understanding the Chomsky-Epstein controversy and what it means for us on the left, and I will die on this hill.
The worst thing Chomsky did was go against his anarchist principles by being friends with a billionaire pervert. There is zero evidence he did anything criminal himself. No woman has come forward and said Chomsky did anything to her on Epstein Island. Chomsky gave Epstein advice on how to defend himself from the media because they were friends and Chomsky believed his friend (no matter how awful of a person he was) was innocent. That’s not a valid reason to cancel someone or Chuck out their lifetime of work.
Let’s be honest: a lot of the stuff said about Epstein is dubious at best. There’s no solid evidence he was a Mossad agent luring in high-ranking global elites in order to get blackmail material on them on behalf of Israel. Not only does this narrative completely ignore capitalism and class interest, but it’s not supported by much. For one thing, most of the girls Epstein was having sex with were over 18. Yes, sone were underage, but it’s most likely they lied about their ages the same way underage groupies in the 1970s lied about their ages in order to bang rock stars. I don’t deny Epstein was a disgusting sleazeball, but he wasn’t some three-headed Illuminati alien sacrificing babies to Satan. There’s also no evidence of Epstein ever being a pimp. None of the women he trafficked have said he was pumping them out to others. One woman, Virginia Giuffre, has made multiple claims that haven’t been substantiated yet the media takes as gospel truth. Some of the things said in the files are so outrageous it’s hard to believe them. Look at it with skeptical eyes.
But back to Chomsky: his work is now being thrown out by 99% of the left precisely because the left operates on a very rigid moralism. They will dogpile on anyone for every single little thing. Modern leftist spaces have no leaders and no real structure, so they’re unable to resolve any internal conflict in any other way than mob justice. This is a huge problem that needs to be addressed and solved.
Is there a way to hold Chomsky accountable for being friends with Epstein without demanding comrades burn his books? There should be.
>>2690953No one denied that.
There is no need to waste time reading a YPG flag liberal's take on anything, their entire understanding of politics come from youtube slop essays.
>>2690953That's why Lenin followed Nechayev's line of thought.
>>2690946The problem is, leftists can’t understand nuance in social situations. They believe the world is entirely a good-vs-evil thing and can’t see the grey areas because their social development is dogshit half the time.
>>2690963No he didn't. Stop spreading this falsification. Lenin was a Marxist.
Remember how democratic confederalists collaborated with Zionism and then once it was betrayed by Zionism (to no one's surprise) they pleaded to Zionism for help?
>>2690970Marxism is just economic zionism
>>2690995What’s Chomsky guilty of, exactly? Can we prove it? Has any woman come forward saying Chomsky sexually assaulted her?
>>2691039>erm ackshullay he just watched the billionaire traffic women and took his moneyFuck Glowm Chomsky. You are the company you keep. He probably answered my letter as a child bc he was thinking about bussy, pedo-creep. Rest in piss once his demented ass finally shuffles off the mortal coil. Anarkiddies btfo, you don't see any MLs in the files.
This has to be ragebait/trolling. I refuse to believe even the dumbest rovaja-stan is this retarded.
>>2691099So guilt by association is legitimate, in your view?
How light the left deal with internal issues like this? You believe all of Chomsky’s work needs to be subjected to book burnings, for example?
WRT Chomsky's work, i'll care about this when someone can show me which citations it invalidates.
>>2690946>There’s no solid evidence he was a Mossad agent luring in high-ranking global elites in order to get blackmail material on them on behalf of Israel. Most disingenuous thing i ever read, tbh.
>>2690970Marxism is social democracy Marx himself rejected. All Marxists oppose Marx.
>>2691039He's guilty of being a liberal and bastardizing the sacred name of A.
>>2691101Anyone who still supports "Rojava" in 2026 at the present situation has to be mentally retarded.
>>2691109That I can agree with, but is the Epstein stuff worth cancelling him over?
Every single academic is a grifter.
TBH I think it’s fallacious to assume anyone mentioned in the Emails was in on what Epstein was doing.
>>2690946I don’t feel sorry for anyone who feels “betrayed” by Chomsky. There was a time when half the American left was a virtual Chomsky cult and the man was upheld as being the perfect moral example for leftists to follow. Norman Finkelstein still says this about Chomsky and has been hella hush-hush about Chomsky being buddies with Epstein (interesting). If anyone feels “betrayed” by these new revelations, it’s because they weren’t thinking critically about Chomsky in the first place and were allowing their bullshit moralism to cloud their judgement.
>>2691140Almost every single american I've come accross is a socialdemocratic faggot with a false impression that they're something else. This american illness has spread its infection deep into NATO colonies and rebellious feeling youngsters in the third world.
>>2691140>Norman Finkelstein still says this about Chomsky and has been hella hush-hush about Chomsky being buddies with Epstein (interesting). ironically being one of the few if not only person to come out of the emails looking better for saying epstein deserved to be strangled lol
>>2691142And what has Finkelstein said about his own hero’s reputation being destroyed forever by the Epstein shit?
>>2691151He’s already gone through his mourning period, he had the same for Mao when he met Nixon, then later when Deng Xiaoping took over and Norm decided to dedicate his academic career to the Palestinian cause
Chomsky was weaksauce and an okd man. He always looked like an old man. The only way anarchism can remotely work in the modern world is with high tech with an ai overseeing robots and the economy and shit.
>>2691151Hes an academic, doubtless the academia is more important to him than the gutter press trash.
>>2691157>Chomsky was weaksauce and an okd man. He always looked like an old man. The only way anarchism can remotely work in the modern world is with high tech with an ai overseeing robots and the economy and shit.Chomsky didn't write about anarchism…
You people legitimately don't read books, do you? Embarrassing.
>>2691162In the movie he made he said abolish oppressive hierarchies. Sounds like anarchism to me.
>>2691162You mean the whole book he wrote on the Spanish Civil War wasn’t just shilling for CNT FAI?
>>2691165Anyone can say that, even Milei. Anarchism on its premise is without rulers - to not rule and not be ruled, not "without the oppressive rulers". That kind of distinction is a clear indication of apologetics contrary to anarchism.
>>2691166Orwell wrote a book on the spanish civil war as well. Many bourgeois authors have written lots of books on the spanish civil war. Not a lot of have written condemndations of the CNT FAI being traitors by participating in the popular front as to condemn syndicalist failiure entirely, but those who did are anarchist-communists.
There is no way to smear anarchism when people don't understand its hindu-esque character and the fact that it is majority astroturfed by liberalism.
Classical anarchism doesn't even start with Proudhon and Bakunin, it starts with a greek epic.
No academic figure can be anarchist, academia is pro-status quo, academia legitimizes the bourgeois states' institutionalization of thought.
Anarchists barely exist anymore, most of the "anarchists" you see on the internet are grifters, reactionaries and of course they are simply using the aesthetic like a military chic to promote their own brands of liberalism.
There exist only few authentic AC and they are with AMI.
>>2691162He also had nothing to say sbout china and shilled biden. Weak as a noodle.
Witch hunting on the left has been the biggest plague in the past 15 or so years.
Back in 2013-14 the left was accusing everyone in their circles of being TERFs/transphobes to the point where if you criticized Judith Butler you were labeled a “TERF” and shamed, shunned, ostracized, and had every little thing you did in your past dug up in order to give legitimacy to why you deserved to be ostracized. Then in 2016ish everyone on the left was accusing each other of being NazBols. Same thing. Now with the Gaza genocide everyone in the left has been desperately trying to weed out “liberal Zionists” from among their ranks. Doing something as mundane as drinking a Starbucks coffee or posting a Lady Gaga song on your IG stories gets you denounced as a “Zionist normalizer” and shunned.
Any good leftist who functions on the principle of being anti-carceral will give the accused the presumption of innocence. Witch hunting is an example of acting like a cop even if it’s done with the intent of dealing with exclusionary behaviours. It’s exactly like how #metoo was so toxic: it just assumed the guilt of those accused on hearsay alone. It’s also why fedjacketing is a thing.
>>2691178Which leads me to the next point - there is no real movement right now, there is no movement.
Communism is the real movement against the present state of things? There is no real movement right now, there is no movement.
There is no communist movement right now.
China, the AES, the rest. Nobody is moving, nobody is exporting revolution, they are all only concerned with themselves. Xi moves it from one leg sleeve to the other when it comes to foreign affairs.
If you want to reap the benefits of the present situation, by choosing a lesser evil, you have to be a Sinophile, there is nothing greater in this world right now than China.
China is the most successful socialdemocratic country in the history of mankind.
>>2691187Americans delude themselves that "China's tech industry is 3 years behind the US".
China is at least 30 years ahead of the US. China is the strongest and most developed nation in the world.
China is the sole superpower of this world. The US has more nukes but the effect is the same, nukes are simply deterrents, were all nukes to be launched, the effect would be the same.
The West and America has more influence on the global information space through the internet, but China has complete influence over its own ethernet which has more people than the majority of the world. China has more people than the US and Europe combined, picrel, delusional liberal propaganda fed into western AI LLM can't handle basic facts without resorting to western propaganda.
>>2691187Yeah the us could be like china. People could work 996 and have a keneysian dictator confiscating savings and having a tight leash over the economy.
What that might lead to however is a race to which country can squeeze their workers more.
The alternative is trying something new in my opinion.
>>2691186ACAB means we don’t act like cops to each other.
>>2691157Anarchism can’t deal with the modern state or capitalism in its current form. You need to seize political power to abolish both.
>>2691224Its nuanced s head if state ought to protect the state but other than that with advancements in ai and automation they shouldnt do much more than that and sllow polling for how the resources ought to be allocated then the ai gets to work snd figures it out.
From now on every socialist theorist should be a pseudonymous vtuber so the focus becomes the theory and not the author.
>>2691224If one of your end goals is to abolish it, then isn't that anarchist?
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