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So, his silence was telling, as the war in Gaza raged, clearly the old man was ill. reports came out in the last week or two about his condition, that he had been ill for sometime. It is currently being reported (but not from utterly reliable sources) that he has died today.
Personally, I’d file Chomsky into the category of people you had to at least disagree with, and show your workings. The propaganda model was a classic of pragmatic approaches to structural issues in the media: he deserves credit for his opposition to the Vietnam war, and actually being prepared to go out and campaign.
Criticism, for his pragmatism (up to and including supporting US forces in Syria against ISIS), his aggressive debating style, wading into complex areas.
But, he was a public intellectual, who defined his own discipline (lets see if science advances one funeral at a time).
I hope that the editors of the Standard consider publishing a critical obituary of Chomsky and his politics, as they have done in the past with such political figures as Tony Cliff, Ted Grant, Michael Foot, etc.
Well, there’s conflicting reports he may well still be alive, but we should certainly commission the obituary and have it ready.
Some articles and book reviews relating to Chomsky from old Socialist Standards:
February 1970: American Power and the New Mandarins. Noam Chomsky:
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2019/11/uncle-sam-is-wicked-1970.htmlFebruary 1994:Book Review: Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies. Noam Chomsky
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2017/08/necessary-illusions-1994.htmlAugust 1995: Noam Chomsky – Rights and Lefties
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2014/02/noam-chomsky-rights-and-lefties.htmlAugust 1998: Chomsky’s Weakness
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2006/05/chomskys-weakness.htmlMarch 2001: Book Review: Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs. Noam Chomsky
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2020/03/the-biggest-rogue-2001.htmlJuly 2004: Book Review: Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance. Noam Chomsky.
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2010/01/chomsky-on-global-super-power.htmlAugust 2006 Book Review: Wolfgang Sperlich: Noam Chomsky. Reaktion Books.
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2006/07/chomsky.htmlAugust 2010: Book Review: Hopes and Prospects. Noam Chomsky.
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2010/08/common-sense-raised-to-genius.htmlAugust 2014: Book Review: On Anarchism. Noam Chomsky:
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2014/08/against-state-but-not-quite-yet.htmlMay 2020: Book Review: Internationalism or Extinction. Noam Chomsky:
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2020/05/fixing-system-2020.htmlOctober 2020: US elections: The lesser-evil fallacy:
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2023/10/us-elections-lesser-evil-fallacy-2020.html
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