[lucidmote]

Most of the people I have known that rave about Chomsky actually read very little of his work. I've tried getting through a few of his books, and I actually find his linguistic publications more interesting than his geopolitical ones.

From the perspective of working class unity and logistic/democratic changes to civilization, I've not found any of his advice terribly useful. Becoming an academic and pushing policy is inaccessible to most working people.

In areas like this he comes dangerously close to being a propagandist for Putin. We need a Fifth International where we can all come together and agree once and for all that state capitalism is not socialism, and China and Russia are officially capitalist countries with absurd levels of communist propaganda.

Any hope that the tools of capital will eventually lead to a people's revolution when the primary barrier to that is a totalitarian vanguard party seems silly to me.

[guerrilla]

> Becoming an academic and pushing policy is inaccessible to most working people.

What... he's famous precisely for turning many people into progressives and socialists. Nobody would even know he's a linguist or geopolitical theorist otherwise. He's literally a popularizer for the left.

> We need a Fifth International where we can all come together and agree once and for all that state capitalism is not socialism, and China and Russia are officially capitalist countries with absurd levels of communist propaganda.

This I can get behind though. I don't think it will succeed though, Russia and China have paid a lot for their lackeys on the left.