Chomsky on Lenin, Trotsky, Socialism & the Soviet Union.

[Deicide]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQsceZ9skQI&feature=g-vrec

Lets hear those thoughts.

[Art Vandelay]

"In fact Trotsky was one up until 1917"

I am unsure, what exactly he meant by this, or what views of Trotsky's changed in 1917 other than his disagreements with Lenin on the Party; but if I understood correctly he implicitly expressed support for the mensheviks.

[Ethics Gradient, Traitor For All Ages]

1917 being a coup is chomskyism in its purest and most deranged form.

[Caj]

It's kinda funny how all of the "mainstream Marxists" that Chomsky referred to were pro-Bolshevik.

[Peoples' War]

Chomsky's view is irrelevant because, as we know, he is NOT a "Marx scholar".

He has no idea how to analyze a situation from a Marxist perspective, or any clue of what Lenin really was, a great revolutionary leader of a great revolutionary people!

[Brosa Luxemburg]

You know, I read Chomsky's shit on how the media operates, on American Imperialism, and I think "wow, this is really good and insightful" and then I see things like this and it's like "what the hell was he thinking?"

[Peoples' War]

You know, I read Chomsky's shit on how the media operates, on American Imperialism, and I think "wow, this is really good and insightful" and then I see things like this and it's like "what the hell was he thinking?"
His problem, I think, is that he doesn't look into Marx. I wholeheartedly think that, if he actually took the time, he would be a Marxist.

I agree totally with what you are saying.

[Robocommie]

Some dudes just have huge blind sides on areas of interest. We all have our prejudices on certain issues.

[shinjuku dori]

This is what academics do.

[~Spectre]

Chomsky is epic. Haters need to hop off.