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	Chomsky's worldview revolves around his belief in [[Freedom of speech\|free speech]] absolutism, the notion that all ideas much be allowed, no matter how [[reactionary]] or untrue. Although Chomsky regularly condemns [[United States imperialism\|Statesian imperialism]] and other reactionary regimes, he also denounces any measure taken by [[Progressivism\|progressives]] to defend a society against reactionary influence. His [[Anarchism\|anarchist]] sympathies limits his outlook to seeing all government action that restricts individual freedom as "[[Authoritarianism\|authoritarian]]" without any nuance applied.<ref name=":0" />		Chomsky's worldview revolves around his belief in [[Freedom of speech\|free speech]] absolutism, the notion that all ideas much be allowed, no matter how [[reactionary]] or untrue. Although Chomsky regularly condemns [[United States imperialism\|Statesian imperialism]] and other reactionary regimes, he also denounces any measure taken by [[Progressivism\|progressives]] to defend a society against reactionary influence. His [[Anarchism\|anarchist]] sympathies limits his outlook to seeing all government action that restricts individual freedom as "[[Authoritarianism\|authoritarian]]" without any nuance applied.<ref name=":0" />

	Noam Chomsky maintained a close personal and intellectual relationship with financier [[Jeffrey Epstein]] beginning around 2015, involving regular meetings, email exchanges on politics and social events, and mutual favors long after Epstein's 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor.<ref>{{Web citation\|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/03/epstein-files-noam-chomsky \|title=Newly released files shed new light on Chomsky and Epstein relationship \|newspaper=The Guardian \|date=2026-02-03}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation\|url=https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/11/20/emails-epstein-mit-harvard-trump-chomsky \|title=Epstein emails show close connection with MIT's Noam Chomsky \|newspaper=WBUR \|date=2025-11-19}}</ref> Chomsky described Epstein as a "highly valued friend" and "regular source of intellectual exchange," praising his curiosity, knowledge, and ~~connections—such as arranging calls with diplomats and meetings with figures like Ehud Barak—while~~ Epstein provided financial support including a $20,000 donation to a Kol Israel Foundation project coordinated by Chomsky's wife Valeria and genetic testing kits for Chomsky's family.<ref>{{Web citation\|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/22/noam-chomsky-jeffrey-epstein-ties-emails \|title=Chomsky had deeper ties with Epstein than previously known, documents reveal \|newspaper=The Guardian \|date=2025-11-22}}</ref>		Noam Chomsky maintained a close personal and intellectual relationship with financier [[Jeffrey Epstein]] beginning around 2015, involving regular meetings, email exchanges on politics and social events, and mutual favors long after Epstein's 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor.<ref name=":1">{{Web citation\|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/03/epstein-files-noam-chomsky \|title=Newly released files shed new light on Chomsky and Epstein relationship \|newspaper=The Guardian \|date=2026-02-03}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation\|url=https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/11/20/emails-epstein-mit-harvard-trump-chomsky \|title=Epstein emails show close connection with MIT's Noam Chomsky \|newspaper=WBUR \|date=2025-11-19}}</ref> Chomsky described Epstein as a "highly valued friend" and "regular source of intellectual exchange," praising his curiosity, knowledge, and connections, while Epstein provided financial support including a $20,000 donation to a [[Kol Israel Foundation]] project coordinated by Chomsky's wife Valeria and genetic testing kits for Chomsky's family.<ref>{{Web citation\|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/22/noam-chomsky-jeffrey-epstein-ties-emails \|title=Chomsky had deeper ties with Epstein than previously known, documents reveal \|newspaper=The Guardian \|date=2025-11-22}}</ref>

	In 2019, amid "horrible" media scrutiny over their association, Chomsky advised Epstein to simply "ignore it"; conversely, Epstein offered Chomsky strategic introductions, such as to Steve Bannon.<ref>{{Web citation\|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce9ykjlyv50o \|title=Noam Chomsky advised Epstein about 'horrible' media coverage \|newspaper=BBC \|date=2026-02-05}}</ref> Their ties included invitations for Caribbean trips (with no confirmed visits to Epstein's island), as revealed in U.S. Justice Department and congressional document releases; Chomsky later downplayed the association as occasional and financial, insisting it was "none of anyone's business."<ref>{{Web citation\|url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/5/3/epstein-nowak-chomsky-meeting-2015/ \|title=Jeffrey Epstein Met With Harvard Professor Martin Nowak and Noam Chomsky \|newspaper=The Harvard Crimson \|date=2023-05-03}}</ref>		In 2019, amid "horrible" media scrutiny over their association, Chomsky advised Epstein to simply "ignore it"; conversely, Epstein offered Chomsky strategic introductions, such as to [[Steve Bannon]] or [[Ehud Barak]].<ref>{{Web citation\|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce9ykjlyv50o \|title=Noam Chomsky advised Epstein about 'horrible' media coverage \|newspaper=BBC \|date=2026-02-05}}</ref> Their ties included invitations for Caribbean trips (with no confirmed visits to Epstein's island, though the two have been pictured sitting together on a private plane),<ref name=":1" /> as revealed in [[United States Justice Department\|U.S. Justice Department]] and congressional document releases; Chomsky later downplayed the association as occasional and financial, insisting it was "none of anyone's business."<ref>{{Web citation\|url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/5/3/epstein-nowak-chomsky-meeting-2015/ \|title=Jeffrey Epstein Met With Harvard Professor Martin Nowak and Noam Chomsky \|newspaper=The Harvard Crimson \|date=2023-05-03}}</ref>

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	Chomsky's worldview revolves around his belief in [[Freedom of speech\|free speech]] absolutism, the notion that all ideas much be allowed, no matter how [[reactionary]] or untrue. Although Chomsky regularly condemns [[United States imperialism\|Statesian imperialism]] and other reactionary regimes, he also denounces any measure taken by [[Progressivism\|progressives]] to defend a society against reactionary influence. His [[Anarchism\|anarchist]] sympathies limits his outlook to seeing all government action that restricts individual freedom as "[[Authoritarianism\|authoritarian]]" without any nuance applied.<ref name=":0" />		Chomsky's worldview revolves around his belief in [[Freedom of speech\|free speech]] absolutism, the notion that all ideas much be allowed, no matter how [[reactionary]] or untrue. Although Chomsky regularly condemns [[United States imperialism\|Statesian imperialism]] and other reactionary regimes, he also denounces any measure taken by [[Progressivism\|progressives]] to defend a society against reactionary influence. His [[Anarchism\|anarchist]] sympathies limits his outlook to seeing all government action that restricts individual freedom as "[[Authoritarianism\|authoritarian]]" without any nuance applied.<ref name=":0" />

	Noam Chomsky maintained a close personal and intellectual relationship with financier Jeffrey Epstein beginning around 2015, involving regular meetings, email exchanges on politics and social events, and mutual favors long after Epstein's 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor.<ref>{{Web citation\|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/03/epstein-files-noam-chomsky\|title=Newly released files shed new light on Chomsky and Epstein relationship\|newspaper=The Guardian\|date=2026-02-03}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation\|url=https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/11/20/emails-epstein-mit-harvard-trump-chomsky\|title=Epstein emails show close connection with MIT's Noam Chomsky\|newspaper=WBUR\|date=2025-11-19}}</ref> Chomsky described Epstein as a "highly valued friend" and "regular source of intellectual exchange," praising his curiosity, knowledge, and connections—such as arranging calls with diplomats and meetings with figures like Ehud Barak—while Epstein provided financial support including a $20,000 donation coordinated by Chomsky's wife Valeria, genetic testing kits~~, and advice on handling "horrible" media scrutiny in 2019 by suggesting to "ignore it~~."<ref>{{Web citation\|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/22/noam-chomsky-jeffrey-epstein-ties-emails\|title=Chomsky had deeper ties with Epstein than previously known, documents reveal\|newspaper=The Guardian\|date=2025-11-22}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation\|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce9ykjlyv50o\|title=Noam Chomsky advised Epstein about 'horrible' media coverage\|newspaper=BBC\|date=2026-02-05}}</ref> Their ties included ~~Epstein facilitating Chomsky's contact with Steve Bannon and~~ invitations for Caribbean trips (with no confirmed visits to Epstein's island), as revealed in U.S. Justice Department and congressional document releases; Chomsky later downplayed the association as occasional and financial, insisting it was "none of anyone's business."<ref>{{Web citation\|url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/5/3/epstein-nowak-chomsky-meeting-2015/\|title=Jeffrey Epstein Met With Harvard Professor Martin Nowak and Noam Chomsky\|newspaper=The Harvard Crimson\|date=2023-05-03}}</ref>		Noam Chomsky maintained a close personal and intellectual relationship with financier [[Jeffrey Epstein]] beginning around 2015, involving regular meetings, email exchanges on politics and social events, and mutual favors long after Epstein's 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor.<ref>{{Web citation\|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/03/epstein-files-noam-chomsky \|title=Newly released files shed new light on Chomsky and Epstein relationship \|newspaper=The Guardian \|date=2026-02-03}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation\|url=https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/11/20/emails-epstein-mit-harvard-trump-chomsky \|title=Epstein emails show close connection with MIT's Noam Chomsky \|newspaper=WBUR \|date=2025-11-19}}</ref> Chomsky described Epstein as a "highly valued friend" and "regular source of intellectual exchange," praising his curiosity, knowledge, and connections—such as arranging calls with diplomats and meetings with figures like Ehud Barak—while Epstein provided financial support including a $20,000 donation to a Kol Israel Foundation project coordinated by Chomsky's wife Valeria and genetic testing kits for Chomsky's family.<ref>{{Web citation\|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/22/noam-chomsky-jeffrey-epstein-ties-emails \|title=Chomsky had deeper ties with Epstein than previously known, documents reveal \|newspaper=The Guardian \|date=2025-11-22}}</ref>

			In 2019, amid "horrible" media scrutiny over their association, Chomsky advised Epstein to simply "ignore it"; conversely, Epstein offered Chomsky strategic introductions, such as to Steve Bannon.<ref>{{Web citation\|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce9ykjlyv50o \|title=Noam Chomsky advised Epstein about 'horrible' media coverage \|newspaper=BBC \|date=2026-02-05}}</ref> Their ties included invitations for Caribbean trips (with no confirmed visits to Epstein's island), as revealed in U.S. Justice Department and congressional document releases; Chomsky later downplayed the association as occasional and financial, insisting it was "none of anyone's business."<ref>{{Web citation\|url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/5/3/epstein-nowak-chomsky-meeting-2015/ \|title=Jeffrey Epstein Met With Harvard Professor Martin Nowak and Noam Chomsky \|newspaper=The Harvard Crimson \|date=2023-05-03}}</ref>

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	Chomsky's worldview revolves around his belief in [[Freedom of speech\|free speech]] absolutism, the notion that all ideas much be allowed, no matter how [[reactionary]] or untrue. Although Chomsky regularly condemns [[United States imperialism\|Statesian imperialism]] and other reactionary regimes, he also denounces any measure taken by [[Progressivism\|progressives]] to defend a society against reactionary influence. His [[Anarchism\|anarchist]] sympathies limits his outlook to seeing all government action that restricts individual freedom as "[[Authoritarianism\|authoritarian]]" without any nuance applied.<ref name=":0" />		Chomsky's worldview revolves around his belief in [[Freedom of speech\|free speech]] absolutism, the notion that all ideas much be allowed, no matter how [[reactionary]] or untrue. Although Chomsky regularly condemns [[United States imperialism\|Statesian imperialism]] and other reactionary regimes, he also denounces any measure taken by [[Progressivism\|progressives]] to defend a society against reactionary influence. His [[Anarchism\|anarchist]] sympathies limits his outlook to seeing all government action that restricts individual freedom as "[[Authoritarianism\|authoritarian]]" without any nuance applied.<ref name=":0" />

			Noam Chomsky maintained a close personal and intellectual relationship with financier Jeffrey Epstein beginning around 2015, involving regular meetings, email exchanges on politics and social events, and mutual favors long after Epstein's 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor.<ref>{{Web citation\|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/03/epstein-files-noam-chomsky\|title=Newly released files shed new light on Chomsky and Epstein relationship\|newspaper=The Guardian\|date=2026-02-03}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation\|url=https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/11/20/emails-epstein-mit-harvard-trump-chomsky\|title=Epstein emails show close connection with MIT's Noam Chomsky\|newspaper=WBUR\|date=2025-11-19}}</ref> Chomsky described Epstein as a "highly valued friend" and "regular source of intellectual exchange," praising his curiosity, knowledge, and connections—such as arranging calls with diplomats and meetings with figures like Ehud Barak—while Epstein provided financial support including a $20,000 donation coordinated by Chomsky's wife Valeria, genetic testing kits, and advice on handling "horrible" media scrutiny in 2019 by suggesting to "ignore it."<ref>{{Web citation\|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/22/noam-chomsky-jeffrey-epstein-ties-emails\|title=Chomsky had deeper ties with Epstein than previously known, documents reveal\|newspaper=The Guardian\|date=2025-11-22}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation\|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce9ykjlyv50o\|title=Noam Chomsky advised Epstein about 'horrible' media coverage\|newspaper=BBC\|date=2026-02-05}}</ref> Their ties included Epstein facilitating Chomsky's contact with Steve Bannon and invitations for Caribbean trips (with no confirmed visits to Epstein's island), as revealed in U.S. Justice Department and congressional document releases; Chomsky later downplayed the association as occasional and financial, insisting it was "none of anyone's business."<ref>{{Web citation\|url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/5/3/epstein-nowak-chomsky-meeting-2015/\|title=Jeffrey Epstein Met With Harvard Professor Martin Nowak and Noam Chomsky\|newspaper=The Harvard Crimson\|date=2023-05-03}}</ref>

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	{{Infobox revolutionary\|name=Noam Chomsky\|image_size=200\|nationality=[[United States of America\|Statesian]]\|~~birth_name~~=~~Avram Noam Chomsky\|birth_date=December 7, 1928\|birth_place=Philadelphia,~~ [[~~Pennsylvania~~]]~~, [[United States of America\|United States]]\|political_line=~~[[Libertarian Socialism]] <br> [[Imperialism]]<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Lorenzo A.\|newspaper=[[Popaganda]]\|title=Noam Chomsky and the Compatible Left, Part I\|date=2019/09/15\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191115230624/https://lorenzoae.wordpress.com/2019/03/04/noam-chomsky-and-the-compatible-left-part-i/\|retrieved=2022-12-08}}</ref> <br> [[Anti-communism]]<ref>{{Citation\|author=Michael Parenti\|year=1997\|title=Black Shirts & Reds\|chapter=Left Anticommunism\|chapter-url=https://www.greanvillepost.com/2018/10/06/left-anticommunism-the-unkindest-cut/\|section=Genuflection to Orthodoxy\|quote=“Many on the U.S. Left have exhibited a Soviet bashing and Red baiting that matches anything on the Right in its enmity and crudity. Listen to Noam Chomsky holding forth about “left intellectuals” who try to “rise to power on the backs of mass popular movements” and “then beat the people into submission. . . . You start off as basically a Leninist who is going to be part of the Red bureaucracy. You see later that power doesn’t lie that way, and you very quickly become an ideologist of the right. . . . We’re seeing it right now in the [former] Soviet Union. The same guys who were communist thugs two years back, are now running banks and [are] enthusiastic free marketeers and praising Americans” (Z Magazine, 10/95).		{{Infobox revolutionary\|name=Noam Chomsky\|image_size=200\|nationality=[[United States of America\|Statesian]]\|political_orientation=[[Anarchism]]<br>[[Libertarian Socialism]] <br> [[Imperialism]]<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Lorenzo A.\|newspaper=[[Popaganda]]\|title=Noam Chomsky and the Compatible Left, Part I\|date=2019/09/15\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191115230624/https://lorenzoae.wordpress.com/2019/03/04/noam-chomsky-and-the-compatible-left-part-i/\|retrieved=2022-12-08}}</ref> <br> [[Anti-communism]]<ref>{{Citation\|author=Michael Parenti\|year=1997\|title=Black Shirts & Reds\|chapter=Left Anticommunism\|chapter-url=https://www.greanvillepost.com/2018/10/06/left-anticommunism-the-unkindest-cut/\|section=Genuflection to Orthodoxy\|quote=“Many on the U.S. Left have exhibited a Soviet bashing and Red baiting that matches anything on the Right in its enmity and crudity. Listen to Noam Chomsky holding forth about “left intellectuals” who try to “rise to power on the backs of mass popular movements” and “then beat the people into submission. . . . You start off as basically a Leninist who is going to be part of the Red bureaucracy. You see later that power doesn’t lie that way, and you very quickly become an ideologist of the right. . . . We’re seeing it right now in the [former] Soviet Union. The same guys who were communist thugs two years back, are now running banks and [are] enthusiastic free marketeers and praising Americans” (Z Magazine, 10/95).

	Chomsky’s imagery is heavily indebted to the same U.S. corporate political culture he so frequently criticizes on other issues. In his mind, the revolution was betrayed by a coterie of “communist thugs” who merely hunger for power rather than wanting the power to end hunger. In fact, the communists did not “very quickly” switch to the Right but struggled in the face of a momentous onslaught to keep Soviet socialism alive for more than seventy years. To be sure, in the Soviet Union’s waning days some, like Boris Yeltsin, crossed over to capitalist ranks, but others continued to resist free-market incursions at great cost to themselves, many meeting their deaths during Yeltsin’s violent repression of the Russian parliament in 1993.”}}		Chomsky’s imagery is heavily indebted to the same U.S. corporate political culture he so frequently criticizes on other issues. In his mind, the revolution was betrayed by a coterie of “communist thugs” who merely hunger for power rather than wanting the power to end hunger. In fact, the communists did not “very quickly” switch to the Right but struggled in the face of a momentous onslaught to keep Soviet socialism alive for more than seventy years. To be sure, in the Soviet Union’s waning days some, like Boris Yeltsin, crossed over to capitalist ranks, but others continued to resist free-market incursions at great cost to themselves, many meeting their deaths during Yeltsin’s violent repression of the Russian parliament in 1993.”}}
	</ref>\|image=Noam Chomsky.png}}		</ref>\|birth_name=Avram Noam Chomsky\|birth_date={{Birth date and age\|1928\|12\|7}}\|birth_place=[[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]], [[United States of America\|United States]]\|image=Noam Chomsky.png}}

	'''Avram Noam Chomsky''' (born December 7, 1928) is a Statesian public intellectual and prominent leader of the [[compatible left]] which has received major funding from the [[MICIMATT\|congressional military industrial complex]].<ref>{{Citation\|author=Roderic Day\|year=2020\|title=On Chomsky\|title-url=https://redsails.org/on-chomsky/\|publisher=Red Sails}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation\|author=Roderic Day\|newspaper=Twitter\|title=Chomsky\|date=2020-04-01\|url=https://twitter.com/RodericDay/status/1245340127968333829}}</ref> He supported the bombing of [[~~Federal Republic~~ of ~~Yugoslavia (1992–2006)~~\|~~Yugoslavia~~]]{{~~Citation needed~~}} and is opposed to [[Vladimir Lenin]].<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Noam Chomsky\|newspaper=Chomsky.info\|title=The Soviet Union Versus Socialism\|date=1986\|url=https://chomsky.info/1986____/\|retrieved=2022-12-08}}</ref> However, he is against the [[United States embargo against Cuba\|U.S. blockade of Cuba]]<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Manolo De Los Santos, [[Vijay Prashad]]\|newspaper=[[Liberation News]]\|title=Let Cuba Live—The movement standing up to Biden’s maximum pressure campaign\|date=2021-07-28\|url=https://www.liberationnews.org/let-cuba-live-the-movement-standing-up-to-bidens-maximum-pressure-campaign/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221108211738/https://www.liberationnews.org/let-cuba-live-the-movement-standing-up-to-bidens-maximum-pressure-campaign/\|archive-date=2022-11-08\|retrieved=2022-12-08}}</ref> and has denounced the USA's [[New Cold War]] against [[People's Republic of China\|China]] and [[Republic of Korea\|occupation of Korea]].<ref>{{Web citation\|author=[[Jeremy Kuzmarov]]\|newspaper=[[CovertAction Magazine]]\|title='Talk of War with China is Total Insanity—Everybody’s Finished if it Takes Place,' Says Noam Chomsky\|date=2023-05-26\|url=https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/05/26/talk-of-war-with-china-is-total-insanity-everybodys-finished-if-it-takes-place-says-noam-chomsky/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230601144742/https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/05/26/talk-of-war-with-china-is-total-insanity-everybodys-finished-if-it-takes-place-says-noam-chomsky/\|archive-date=2023-06-01}}</ref>		'''Avram Noam Chomsky''' (born December 7, 1928) is a [[United States of America\|Statesian]] public intellectual and prominent leader of the [[compatible left]] which has received major funding from the [[MICIMATT\|congressional military industrial complex]].<ref>{{Citation\|author=Roderic Day\|year=2020\|title=On Chomsky\|title-url=https://redsails.org/on-chomsky/\|publisher=Red Sails}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation\|author=Roderic Day\|newspaper=Twitter\|title=Chomsky\|date=2020-04-01\|url=https://twitter.com/RodericDay/status/1245340127968333829}}</ref> He supported the bombing of [[State of Libya\|Libya]] and [[Syria]]<ref name=":0">{{Web citation\|author=Joe Emersberger\|newspaper=[[Orinoco Tribune]]\|title=Assessing Chomsky\|date=2025-12-29\|url=https://orinocotribune.com/assessing-chomsky/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251231082649/https://orinocotribune.com/assessing-chomsky/\|archive-date=2025-12-31}}</ref> and is opposed to [[Vladimir Lenin]].<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Noam Chomsky\|newspaper=Chomsky.info\|title=The Soviet Union Versus Socialism\|date=1986\|url=https://chomsky.info/1986____/\|retrieved=2022-12-08}}</ref> However, he is against the [[United States embargo against Cuba\|U.S. blockade of Cuba]]<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Manolo De Los Santos, [[Vijay Prashad]]\|newspaper=[[Liberation News]]\|title=Let Cuba Live—The movement standing up to Biden’s maximum pressure campaign\|date=2021-07-28\|url=https://www.liberationnews.org/let-cuba-live-the-movement-standing-up-to-bidens-maximum-pressure-campaign/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221108211738/https://www.liberationnews.org/let-cuba-live-the-movement-standing-up-to-bidens-maximum-pressure-campaign/\|archive-date=2022-11-08\|retrieved=2022-12-08}}</ref> and has denounced the USA's [[New Cold War]] against [[People's Republic of China\|China]] and [[Republic of Korea\|occupation of Korea]].<ref>{{Web citation\|author=[[Jeremy Kuzmarov]]\|newspaper=[[CovertAction Magazine]]\|title='Talk of War with China is Total Insanity—Everybody’s Finished if it Takes Place,' Says Noam Chomsky\|date=2023-05-26\|url=https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/05/26/talk-of-war-with-china-is-total-insanity-everybodys-finished-if-it-takes-place-says-noam-chomsky/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230601144742/https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/05/26/talk-of-war-with-china-is-total-insanity-everybodys-finished-if-it-takes-place-says-noam-chomsky/\|archive-date=2023-06-01}}</ref>

			Chomsky's worldview revolves around his belief in [[Freedom of speech\|free speech]] absolutism, the notion that all ideas much be allowed, no matter how [[reactionary]] or untrue. Although Chomsky regularly condemns [[United States imperialism\|Statesian imperialism]] and other reactionary regimes, he also denounces any measure taken by [[Progressivism\|progressives]] to defend a society against reactionary influence. His [[Anarchism\|anarchist]] sympathies limits his outlook to seeing all government action that restricts individual freedom as "[[Authoritarianism\|authoritarian]]" without any nuance applied.<ref name=":0" />

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	{{Infobox revolutionary\|name=Noam Chomsky\|image_size=200\|nationality=[[United States of America\|Statesian]]\|birth_name=Avram Noam Chomsky\|birth_date=December 7, 1928\|birth_place=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, [[United States of America\|United States]]\|political_line=[[Libertarian Socialism]] <br> [[Imperialism]]<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Lorenzo A.\|newspaper=[[Popaganda]]\|title=Noam Chomsky and the Compatible Left, Part I\|date=2019/09/15\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191115230624/https://lorenzoae.wordpress.com/2019/03/04/noam-chomsky-and-the-compatible-left-part-i/\|retrieved=2022-12-08}}</ref> <br> [[Anti-communism]]<ref>{{Citation\|author=Michael Parenti\|year=1997\|title=Black Shirts & Reds\|chapter=Left Anticommunism\|chapter-url=https://www.greanvillepost.com/2018/10/06/left-anticommunism-the-unkindest-cut/\|section=Genuflection to Orthodoxy\|quote=“Many on the U.S. Left have exhibited a Soviet bashing and Red baiting that matches anything on the Right in its enmity and crudity. Listen to Noam Chomsky holding forth about “left intellectuals” who try to “rise to power on the backs of mass popular movements” and “then beat the people into submission. . . . You start off as basically a Leninist who is going to be part of the Red bureaucracy. You see later that power doesn’t lie that way, and you very quickly become an ideologist of the right. . . . We’re seeing it right now in the [former] Soviet Union. The same guys who were communist thugs two years back, are now running banks and [are] enthusiastic free marketeers and praising Americans” (Z Magazine, 10/95).		{{Infobox revolutionary\|name=Noam Chomsky\|image_size=200\|nationality=[[United States of America\|Statesian]]\|birth_name=Avram Noam Chomsky\|birth_date=December 7, 1928\|birth_place=Philadelphia, [[Pennsylvania]], [[United States of America\|United States]]\|political_line=[[Libertarian Socialism]] <br> [[Imperialism]]<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Lorenzo A.\|newspaper=[[Popaganda]]\|title=Noam Chomsky and the Compatible Left, Part I\|date=2019/09/15\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191115230624/https://lorenzoae.wordpress.com/2019/03/04/noam-chomsky-and-the-compatible-left-part-i/\|retrieved=2022-12-08}}</ref> <br> [[Anti-communism]]<ref>{{Citation\|author=Michael Parenti\|year=1997\|title=Black Shirts & Reds\|chapter=Left Anticommunism\|chapter-url=https://www.greanvillepost.com/2018/10/06/left-anticommunism-the-unkindest-cut/\|section=Genuflection to Orthodoxy\|quote=“Many on the U.S. Left have exhibited a Soviet bashing and Red baiting that matches anything on the Right in its enmity and crudity. Listen to Noam Chomsky holding forth about “left intellectuals” who try to “rise to power on the backs of mass popular movements” and “then beat the people into submission. . . . You start off as basically a Leninist who is going to be part of the Red bureaucracy. You see later that power doesn’t lie that way, and you very quickly become an ideologist of the right. . . . We’re seeing it right now in the [former] Soviet Union. The same guys who were communist thugs two years back, are now running banks and [are] enthusiastic free marketeers and praising Americans” (Z Magazine, 10/95).

	Chomsky’s imagery is heavily indebted to the same U.S. corporate political culture he so frequently criticizes on other issues. In his mind, the revolution was betrayed by a coterie of “communist thugs” who merely hunger for power rather than wanting the power to end hunger. In fact, the communists did not “very quickly” switch to the Right but struggled in the face of a momentous onslaught to keep Soviet socialism alive for more than seventy years. To be sure, in the Soviet Union’s waning days some, like Boris Yeltsin, crossed over to capitalist ranks, but others continued to resist free-market incursions at great cost to themselves, many meeting their deaths during Yeltsin’s violent repression of the Russian parliament in 1993.”}}		Chomsky’s imagery is heavily indebted to the same U.S. corporate political culture he so frequently criticizes on other issues. In his mind, the revolution was betrayed by a coterie of “communist thugs” who merely hunger for power rather than wanting the power to end hunger. In fact, the communists did not “very quickly” switch to the Right but struggled in the face of a momentous onslaught to keep Soviet socialism alive for more than seventy years. To be sure, in the Soviet Union’s waning days some, like Boris Yeltsin, crossed over to capitalist ranks, but others continued to resist free-market incursions at great cost to themselves, many meeting their deaths during Yeltsin’s violent repression of the Russian parliament in 1993.”}}
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	'''Avram Noam Chomsky''' is a Statesian public intellectual ~~who~~ supported the bombing of [[Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1992–2006)\|Yugoslavia]] and is opposed to [[Vladimir Lenin]].<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Noam Chomsky\|newspaper=Chomsky.info\|title=The Soviet Union Versus Socialism\|date=1986\|url=https://chomsky.info/1986____/\|retrieved=2022-12-08}}</ref> However, he is against the [[United States embargo against Cuba\|U.S. blockade of Cuba]].<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Manolo De Los Santos, [[Vijay Prashad]]\|newspaper=[[Liberation News]]\|title=Let Cuba Live—The movement standing up to Biden’s maximum pressure campaign\|date=2021-07-28\|url=https://www.liberationnews.org/let-cuba-live-the-movement-standing-up-to-bidens-maximum-pressure-campaign/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221108211738/https://www.liberationnews.org/let-cuba-live-the-movement-standing-up-to-bidens-maximum-pressure-campaign/\|archive-date=2022-11-08\|retrieved=2022-12-08}}</ref> ~~He is a prominent~~ and ~~well-known leader of~~ the [[~~compatible left~~]] ~~who has received major funding from the~~ [[~~MICIMATT~~\|~~congressional military industrial complex~~]].<ref>{{~~Citation~~\|author=~~Roderic Day~~\|~~year~~=~~2020~~\|title=On Chomsky\|~~title~~-url=https://~~redsails~~.~~org~~/on-chomsky/\|~~publisher=Red Sails}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation\|author=Roderic Day\|newspaper=Twitter\|title=Chomsky\|date=2020~~-~~04-01\|~~url=https://~~twitter~~.com/~~RodericDay~~/~~status~~/~~1245340127968333829~~}}</ref>		'''Avram Noam Chomsky''' (born December 7, 1928) is a Statesian public intellectual and prominent leader of the [[compatible left]] which has received major funding from the [[MICIMATT\|congressional military industrial complex]].<ref>{{Citation\|author=Roderic Day\|year=2020\|title=On Chomsky\|title-url=https://redsails.org/on-chomsky/\|publisher=Red Sails}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation\|author=Roderic Day\|newspaper=Twitter\|title=Chomsky\|date=2020-04-01\|url=https://twitter.com/RodericDay/status/1245340127968333829}}</ref> He supported the bombing of [[Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1992–2006)\|Yugoslavia]]{{Citation needed}} and is opposed to [[Vladimir Lenin]].<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Noam Chomsky\|newspaper=Chomsky.info\|title=The Soviet Union Versus Socialism\|date=1986\|url=https://chomsky.info/1986____/\|retrieved=2022-12-08}}</ref> However, he is against the [[United States embargo against Cuba\|U.S. blockade of Cuba]]<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Manolo De Los Santos, [[Vijay Prashad]]\|newspaper=[[Liberation News]]\|title=Let Cuba Live—The movement standing up to Biden’s maximum pressure campaign\|date=2021-07-28\|url=https://www.liberationnews.org/let-cuba-live-the-movement-standing-up-to-bidens-maximum-pressure-campaign/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221108211738/https://www.liberationnews.org/let-cuba-live-the-movement-standing-up-to-bidens-maximum-pressure-campaign/\|archive-date=2022-11-08\|retrieved=2022-12-08}}</ref> and has denounced the USA's [[New Cold War]] against [[People's Republic of China\|China]] and [[Republic of Korea\|occupation of Korea]].<ref>{{Web citation\|author=[[Jeremy Kuzmarov]]\|newspaper=[[CovertAction Magazine]]\|title='Talk of War with China is Total Insanity—Everybody’s Finished if it Takes Place,' Says Noam Chomsky\|date=2023-05-26\|url=https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/05/26/talk-of-war-with-china-is-total-insanity-everybodys-finished-if-it-takes-place-says-noam-chomsky/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230601144742/https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/05/26/talk-of-war-with-china-is-total-insanity-everybodys-finished-if-it-takes-place-says-noam-chomsky/\|archive-date=2023-06-01}}</ref>

	==See Also==		==See Also==

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	~~'''Avram Noam Chomsky'''~~ is ~~a [[Libertarian_Socialism\|libertarian socialist]], [[Imperialism\|imperialist]]<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Lorenzo A.\|newspaper=[[Popaganda]]\|title=Noam Chomsky and~~ the ~~Compatible Left, Part I\|date=2019/09/15\|url=https://web~~.~~archive~~.~~org/web/20191115230624/https://lorenzoae~~.~~wordpress.com/2019/03/04/noam-chomsky-and-~~the-compatible-left-part-i/\|retrieved=2022-12-08}}</ref> [[Anti-communism\|anti-communist]]<ref>{{Citation\|author=Michael Parenti\|year=1997\|title=Black Shirts & Reds\|chapter=Left Anticommunism\|chapter-url=https://www.~~greanvillepost.com/2018/10/06/left-anticommunism-~~the~~-unkindest-cut/\|section=Genuflection~~ to ~~Orthodoxy\|quote=Many on the U.S. Left have exhibited a Soviet bashing and Red baiting that matches anything on~~ the Right in ~~its enmity and crudity. Listen to Noam Chomsky holding forth about “left intellectuals” who try to “rise to power on~~ the ~~backs~~ of ~~mass popular movements” and “then beat the people into submission. . . . You start off as basically~~ a ~~Leninist who is going~~ to be ~~part of the Red bureaucracy. You see later that power doesn’t lie that way~~, ~~and you very quickly become an ideologist of the right. . . . We’re seeing it right now~~ in the ~~[former]~~ Soviet ~~Union. The same guys who were communist thugs two years back~~, ~~are now running banks and [are] enthusiastic~~ free ~~marketeers and praising Americans” (Z Magazine~~, 10/~~95)~~.		Chomsky’s imagery is heavily indebted to the same U.S. corporate political culture he so frequently criticizes on other issues. In his mind, the revolution was betrayed by a coterie of “communist thugs” who merely hunger for power rather than wanting the power to end hunger. In fact, the communists did not “very quickly” switch to the Right but struggled in the face of a momentous onslaught to keep Soviet socialism alive for more than seventy years. To be sure, in the Soviet Union’s waning days some, like Boris Yeltsin, crossed over to capitalist ranks, but others continued to resist free-market incursions at great cost to themselves, many meeting their deaths during Yeltsin’s violent repression of the Russian parliament in 1993.”}}
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	~~Chomsky’s imagery~~ is ~~heavily indebted to the same U.S. corporate political culture he so frequently criticizes on other issues. In his mind, the revolution was betrayed by~~ a coterie of “communist thugs” who merely hunger for power rather than wanting the power to end hunger. In fact, the communists did not “very quickly” switch to the Right but struggled in the face of a momentous onslaught to keep Soviet socialism alive for more than seventy years. To be sure, in the Soviet Union’s waning days some, like Boris Yeltsin, crossed over to capitalist ranks, but others continued to resist free-market incursions at great cost to themselves, many meeting their deaths during Yeltsin’s violent repression of the Russian parliament in 1993.\|pdf=https://valleysunderground.files.wordpress.com/2020/04/blackshirts-and-reds-by-michael-parenti.pdf\|isbn=9780872863293}}</ref> who supported the bombing of [[Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1992–2006)\|Yugoslavia]] and is opposed to [[Vladimir Lenin]].<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Noam Chomsky\|newspaper=Chomsky.info\|title=The Soviet Union Versus Socialism\|date=1986\|url=https://chomsky.info/1986____/\|retrieved=2022-12-08}}</ref> However, he is against the [[United States embargo against Cuba\|U.S. blockade of Cuba]].<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Manolo De Los Santos, [[Vijay Prashad]]\|newspaper=[[Liberation News]]\|title=Let Cuba Live—The movement standing up to Biden’s maximum pressure campaign\|date=2021-07-28\|url=https://www.liberationnews.org/let-cuba-live-the-movement-standing-up-to-bidens-maximum-pressure-campaign/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221108211738/https://www.liberationnews.org/let-cuba-live-the-movement-standing-up-to-bidens-maximum-pressure-campaign/\|archive-date=2022-11-08\|retrieved=2022-12-08}}</ref> He is a prominent and well-known leader of the [[compatible left]] who has received major funding from the [[MICIMATT\|congressional military industrial complex]].<ref>{{Citation\|author=Roderic Day\|year=2020\|title=On Chomsky\|title-url=https://redsails.org/on-chomsky/\|publisher=Red Sails}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation\|author=Roderic Day\|newspaper=Twitter\|title=Chomsky\|date=2020-04-01\|url=https://twitter.com/RodericDay/status/1245340127968333829}}</ref>		'''Avram Noam Chomsky''' is a Statesian public intellectual who supported the bombing of [[Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1992–2006)\|Yugoslavia]] and is opposed to [[Vladimir Lenin]].<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Noam Chomsky\|newspaper=Chomsky.info\|title=The Soviet Union Versus Socialism\|date=1986\|url=https://chomsky.info/1986____/\|retrieved=2022-12-08}}</ref> However, he is against the [[United States embargo against Cuba\|U.S. blockade of Cuba]].<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Manolo De Los Santos, [[Vijay Prashad]]\|newspaper=[[Liberation News]]\|title=Let Cuba Live—The movement standing up to Biden’s maximum pressure campaign\|date=2021-07-28\|url=https://www.liberationnews.org/let-cuba-live-the-movement-standing-up-to-bidens-maximum-pressure-campaign/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221108211738/https://www.liberationnews.org/let-cuba-live-the-movement-standing-up-to-bidens-maximum-pressure-campaign/\|archive-date=2022-11-08\|retrieved=2022-12-08}}</ref> He is a prominent and well-known leader of the [[compatible left]] who has received major funding from the [[MICIMATT\|congressional military industrial complex]].<ref>{{Citation\|author=Roderic Day\|year=2020\|title=On Chomsky\|title-url=https://redsails.org/on-chomsky/\|publisher=Red Sails}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation\|author=Roderic Day\|newspaper=Twitter\|title=Chomsky\|date=2020-04-01\|url=https://twitter.com/RodericDay/status/1245340127968333829}}</ref>

	==See Also==		==See Also==
	[~~https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5be5a25929711449ca9950d4/t/5df7ff1ef8dcf22406cca2ec/1576533792709/Noam+Chomsky+and+the+Compatible+Left.pdf\|Noam Chomsky and the Compatible~~ Left]		* [[Non-communist left]]
			* [[Left-wing anticommunism]]

	== References ==		== References ==
	[[Category:The Compatible Left]]		[[Category:The Compatible Left]]
			[[Category:Anti-communists]]

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	{{Infobox revolutionary\|name=Noam Chomsky\|image_size=200~~\|birth_name=Avram Noam Chomsky~~\|birth_date=December 7, 1928\|birth_place=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, [[United States of America\|United States]]\|nationality=[[United States of America\|Statesian]]\|political_orientation=[[Libertarian Socialism]] <br> [[Imperialism]]<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Lorenzo A.\|newspaper=[[Popaganda]]\|title=Noam Chomsky and the Compatible Left, Part I\|date=2019/09/15\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191115230624/https://lorenzoae.wordpress.com/2019/03/04/noam-chomsky-and-the-compatible-left-part-i/\|retrieved=2022-12-08}}</ref> <br> [[Anti-Communism]\|image=Noam Chomsky.png}}		{{Infobox revolutionary\|name=Noam Chomsky\|image_size=200\|birth_date=December 7, 1928\|birth_place=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, [[United States of America\|United States]]\|image=Noam Chomsky.png}}

	'''Avram Noam Chomsky''' is a [[Libertarian_Socialism\|libertarian socialist]],[[Anti-communism\|anti-communist]]<ref>{{Citation\|author=Michael Parenti\|year=1997\|title=Black Shirts & Reds\|chapter=Left Anticommunism\|chapter-url=https://www.greanvillepost.com/2018/10/06/left-anticommunism-the-unkindest-cut/\|section=Genuflection to Orthodoxy\|quote=Many on the U.S. Left have exhibited a Soviet bashing and Red baiting that matches anything on the Right in its enmity and crudity. Listen to Noam Chomsky holding forth about “left intellectuals” who try to “rise to power on the backs of mass popular movements” and “then beat the people into submission. . . . You start off as basically a Leninist who is going to be part of the Red bureaucracy. You see later that power doesn’t lie that way, and you very quickly become an ideologist of the right. . . . We’re seeing it right now in the [former] Soviet Union. The same guys who were communist thugs two years back, are now running banks and [are] enthusiastic free marketeers and praising Americans” (Z Magazine, 10/95).		'''Avram Noam Chomsky''' is a [[Libertarian_Socialism\|libertarian socialist]], [[Imperialism\|imperialist]]<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Lorenzo A.\|newspaper=[[Popaganda]]\|title=Noam Chomsky and the Compatible Left, Part I\|date=2019/09/15\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191115230624/https://lorenzoae.wordpress.com/2019/03/04/noam-chomsky-and-the-compatible-left-part-i/\|retrieved=2022-12-08}}</ref> [[Anti-communism\|anti-communist]]<ref>{{Citation\|author=Michael Parenti\|year=1997\|title=Black Shirts & Reds\|chapter=Left Anticommunism\|chapter-url=https://www.greanvillepost.com/2018/10/06/left-anticommunism-the-unkindest-cut/\|section=Genuflection to Orthodoxy\|quote=Many on the U.S. Left have exhibited a Soviet bashing and Red baiting that matches anything on the Right in its enmity and crudity. Listen to Noam Chomsky holding forth about “left intellectuals” who try to “rise to power on the backs of mass popular movements” and “then beat the people into submission. . . . You start off as basically a Leninist who is going to be part of the Red bureaucracy. You see later that power doesn’t lie that way, and you very quickly become an ideologist of the right. . . . We’re seeing it right now in the [former] Soviet Union. The same guys who were communist thugs two years back, are now running banks and [are] enthusiastic free marketeers and praising Americans” (Z Magazine, 10/95).

	Chomsky’s imagery is heavily indebted to the same U.S. corporate political culture he so frequently criticizes on other issues. In his mind, the revolution was betrayed by a coterie of “communist thugs” who merely hunger for power rather than wanting the power to end hunger. In fact, the communists did not “very quickly” switch to the Right but struggled in the face of a momentous onslaught to keep Soviet socialism alive for more than seventy years. To be sure, in the Soviet Union’s waning days some, like Boris Yeltsin, crossed over to capitalist ranks, but others continued to resist free-market incursions at great cost to themselves, many meeting their deaths during Yeltsin’s violent repression of the Russian parliament in 1993.\|pdf=https://valleysunderground.files.wordpress.com/2020/04/blackshirts-and-reds-by-michael-parenti.pdf\|isbn=9780872863293}}</ref> who supported the bombing of [[Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1992–2006)\|Yugoslavia]] and is opposed to [[Vladimir Lenin]].<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Noam Chomsky\|newspaper=Chomsky.info\|title=The Soviet Union Versus Socialism\|date=1986\|url=https://chomsky.info/1986____/\|retrieved=2022-12-08}}</ref> However, he is against the [[United States embargo against Cuba\|U.S. blockade of Cuba]].<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Manolo De Los Santos, [[Vijay Prashad]]\|newspaper=[[Liberation News]]\|title=Let Cuba Live—The movement standing up to Biden’s maximum pressure campaign\|date=2021-07-28\|url=https://www.liberationnews.org/let-cuba-live-the-movement-standing-up-to-bidens-maximum-pressure-campaign/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221108211738/https://www.liberationnews.org/let-cuba-live-the-movement-standing-up-to-bidens-maximum-pressure-campaign/\|archive-date=2022-11-08\|retrieved=2022-12-08}}</ref> He is a prominent and well-known leader of the [[compatible left]] who has received major funding from the [[MICIMATT\|congressional military industrial complex]].<ref>{{Citation\|author=Roderic Day\|year=2020\|title=On Chomsky\|title-url=https://redsails.org/on-chomsky/\|publisher=Red Sails}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation\|author=Roderic Day\|newspaper=Twitter\|title=Chomsky\|date=2020-04-01\|url=https://twitter.com/RodericDay/status/1245340127968333829}}</ref>		Chomsky’s imagery is heavily indebted to the same U.S. corporate political culture he so frequently criticizes on other issues. In his mind, the revolution was betrayed by a coterie of “communist thugs” who merely hunger for power rather than wanting the power to end hunger. In fact, the communists did not “very quickly” switch to the Right but struggled in the face of a momentous onslaught to keep Soviet socialism alive for more than seventy years. To be sure, in the Soviet Union’s waning days some, like Boris Yeltsin, crossed over to capitalist ranks, but others continued to resist free-market incursions at great cost to themselves, many meeting their deaths during Yeltsin’s violent repression of the Russian parliament in 1993.\|pdf=https://valleysunderground.files.wordpress.com/2020/04/blackshirts-and-reds-by-michael-parenti.pdf\|isbn=9780872863293}}</ref> who supported the bombing of [[Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1992–2006)\|Yugoslavia]] and is opposed to [[Vladimir Lenin]].<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Noam Chomsky\|newspaper=Chomsky.info\|title=The Soviet Union Versus Socialism\|date=1986\|url=https://chomsky.info/1986____/\|retrieved=2022-12-08}}</ref> However, he is against the [[United States embargo against Cuba\|U.S. blockade of Cuba]].<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Manolo De Los Santos, [[Vijay Prashad]]\|newspaper=[[Liberation News]]\|title=Let Cuba Live—The movement standing up to Biden’s maximum pressure campaign\|date=2021-07-28\|url=https://www.liberationnews.org/let-cuba-live-the-movement-standing-up-to-bidens-maximum-pressure-campaign/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221108211738/https://www.liberationnews.org/let-cuba-live-the-movement-standing-up-to-bidens-maximum-pressure-campaign/\|archive-date=2022-11-08\|retrieved=2022-12-08}}</ref> He is a prominent and well-known leader of the [[compatible left]] who has received major funding from the [[MICIMATT\|congressional military industrial complex]].<ref>{{Citation\|author=Roderic Day\|year=2020\|title=On Chomsky\|title-url=https://redsails.org/on-chomsky/\|publisher=Red Sails}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation\|author=Roderic Day\|newspaper=Twitter\|title=Chomsky\|date=2020-04-01\|url=https://twitter.com/RodericDay/status/1245340127968333829}}</ref>

	==See Also==		==See Also==
			[https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5be5a25929711449ca9950d4/t/5df7ff1ef8dcf22406cca2ec/1576533792709/Noam+Chomsky+and+the+Compatible+Left.pdf\|Noam Chomsky and the Compatible Left]
	* [[Non-Communist Left]]

	~~== External Links ==~~

	* [https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5be5a25929711449ca9950d4/t/5df7ff1ef8dcf22406cca2ec/1576533792709/Noam+Chomsky+and+the+Compatible+Left.pdf\|Noam Chomsky and the Compatible Left]

	== References ==		== References ==
	[[Category:The Compatible Left]]		[[Category:The Compatible Left]]

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	'''Avram Noam Chomsky''' is a [[Libertarian_Socialism\|libertarian socialist]], [[Imperialism\|imperialist]]<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Lorenzo A.\|newspaper=[[Popaganda]]\|title=Noam Chomsky and the Compatible Left, Part I\|date=2019/09/15\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191115230624/https://lorenzoae.wordpress.com/2019/03/04/noam-chomsky-and-the-compatible-left-part-i/\|retrieved=2022-12-08}}</ref> [[Anti-communism\|anti-communist]]<ref>{{Citation\|author=Michael Parenti\|year=1997\|title=Black Shirts & Reds\|chapter=Left Anticommunism\|chapter-url=https://www.greanvillepost.com/2018/10/06/left-anticommunism-the-unkindest-cut/\|section=Genuflection to Orthodoxy\|quote=Many on the U.S. Left have exhibited a Soviet bashing and Red baiting that matches anything on the Right in its enmity and crudity. Listen to Noam Chomsky holding forth about “left intellectuals” who try to “rise to power on the backs of mass popular movements” and “then beat the people into submission. . . . You start off as basically a Leninist who is going to be part of the Red bureaucracy. You see later that power doesn’t lie that way, and you very quickly become an ideologist of the right. . . . We’re seeing it right now in the [former] Soviet Union. The same guys who were communist thugs two years back, are now running banks and [are] enthusiastic free marketeers and praising Americans” (Z Magazine, 10/95).		'''Avram Noam Chomsky''' is a [[Libertarian_Socialism\|libertarian socialist]],[[Anti-communism\|anti-communist]]<ref>{{Citation\|author=Michael Parenti\|year=1997\|title=Black Shirts & Reds\|chapter=Left Anticommunism\|chapter-url=https://www.greanvillepost.com/2018/10/06/left-anticommunism-the-unkindest-cut/\|section=Genuflection to Orthodoxy\|quote=Many on the U.S. Left have exhibited a Soviet bashing and Red baiting that matches anything on the Right in its enmity and crudity. Listen to Noam Chomsky holding forth about “left intellectuals” who try to “rise to power on the backs of mass popular movements” and “then beat the people into submission. . . . You start off as basically a Leninist who is going to be part of the Red bureaucracy. You see later that power doesn’t lie that way, and you very quickly become an ideologist of the right. . . . We’re seeing it right now in the [former] Soviet Union. The same guys who were communist thugs two years back, are now running banks and [are] enthusiastic free marketeers and praising Americans” (Z Magazine, 10/95).

	Chomsky’s imagery is heavily indebted to the same U.S. corporate political culture he so frequently criticizes on other issues. In his mind, the revolution was betrayed by a coterie of “communist thugs” who merely hunger for power rather than wanting the power to end hunger. In fact, the communists did not “very quickly” switch to the Right but struggled in the face of a momentous onslaught to keep Soviet socialism alive for more than seventy years. To be sure, in the Soviet Union’s waning days some, like Boris Yeltsin, crossed over to capitalist ranks, but others continued to resist free-market incursions at great cost to themselves, many meeting their deaths during Yeltsin’s violent repression of the Russian parliament in 1993.\|pdf=https://valleysunderground.files.wordpress.com/2020/04/blackshirts-and-reds-by-michael-parenti.pdf\|isbn=9780872863293}}</ref> who supported the bombing of [[Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1992–2006)\|Yugoslavia]] and is opposed to [[Vladimir Lenin]].<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Noam Chomsky\|newspaper=Chomsky.info\|title=The Soviet Union Versus Socialism\|date=1986\|url=https://chomsky.info/1986____/\|retrieved=2022-12-08}}</ref> However, he is against the [[United States embargo against Cuba\|U.S. blockade of Cuba]].<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Manolo De Los Santos, [[Vijay Prashad]]\|newspaper=[[Liberation News]]\|title=Let Cuba Live—The movement standing up to Biden’s maximum pressure campaign\|date=2021-07-28\|url=https://www.liberationnews.org/let-cuba-live-the-movement-standing-up-to-bidens-maximum-pressure-campaign/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221108211738/https://www.liberationnews.org/let-cuba-live-the-movement-standing-up-to-bidens-maximum-pressure-campaign/\|archive-date=2022-11-08\|retrieved=2022-12-08}}</ref> He is a prominent and well-known leader of the [[compatible left]] who has received major funding from the [[MICIMATT\|congressional military industrial complex]].<ref>{{Citation\|author=Roderic Day\|year=2020\|title=On Chomsky\|title-url=https://redsails.org/on-chomsky/\|publisher=Red Sails}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation\|author=Roderic Day\|newspaper=Twitter\|title=Chomsky\|date=2020-04-01\|url=https://twitter.com/RodericDay/status/1245340127968333829}}</ref>		Chomsky’s imagery is heavily indebted to the same U.S. corporate political culture he so frequently criticizes on other issues. In his mind, the revolution was betrayed by a coterie of “communist thugs” who merely hunger for power rather than wanting the power to end hunger. In fact, the communists did not “very quickly” switch to the Right but struggled in the face of a momentous onslaught to keep Soviet socialism alive for more than seventy years. To be sure, in the Soviet Union’s waning days some, like Boris Yeltsin, crossed over to capitalist ranks, but others continued to resist free-market incursions at great cost to themselves, many meeting their deaths during Yeltsin’s violent repression of the Russian parliament in 1993.\|pdf=https://valleysunderground.files.wordpress.com/2020/04/blackshirts-and-reds-by-michael-parenti.pdf\|isbn=9780872863293}}</ref> who supported the bombing of [[Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1992–2006)\|Yugoslavia]] and is opposed to [[Vladimir Lenin]].<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Noam Chomsky\|newspaper=Chomsky.info\|title=The Soviet Union Versus Socialism\|date=1986\|url=https://chomsky.info/1986____/\|retrieved=2022-12-08}}</ref> However, he is against the [[United States embargo against Cuba\|U.S. blockade of Cuba]].<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Manolo De Los Santos, [[Vijay Prashad]]\|newspaper=[[Liberation News]]\|title=Let Cuba Live—The movement standing up to Biden’s maximum pressure campaign\|date=2021-07-28\|url=https://www.liberationnews.org/let-cuba-live-the-movement-standing-up-to-bidens-maximum-pressure-campaign/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221108211738/https://www.liberationnews.org/let-cuba-live-the-movement-standing-up-to-bidens-maximum-pressure-campaign/\|archive-date=2022-11-08\|retrieved=2022-12-08}}</ref> He is a prominent and well-known leader of the [[compatible left]] who has received major funding from the [[MICIMATT\|congressional military industrial complex]].<ref>{{Citation\|author=Roderic Day\|year=2020\|title=On Chomsky\|title-url=https://redsails.org/on-chomsky/\|publisher=Red Sails}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation\|author=Roderic Day\|newspaper=Twitter\|title=Chomsky\|date=2020-04-01\|url=https://twitter.com/RodericDay/status/1245340127968333829}}</ref>

	==See Also==		==See Also==
	[https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5be5a25929711449ca9950d4/t/5df7ff1ef8dcf22406cca2ec/1576533792709/Noam+Chomsky+and+the+Compatible+Left.pdf\|Noam Chomsky and the Compatible Left]
			* [[Non-Communist Left]]

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	== References ==		== References ==
	[[Category:The Compatible Left]]		[[Category:The Compatible Left]]

Deogeo: Citations and MIC links

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Citations and MIC links

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	'''Avram Noam Chomsky''' is a [[Libertarian_Socialism\|libertarian socialist]], [[Imperialism\|imperialist]]<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Lorenzo A.\|newspaper=[[Popaganda]]\|title=Noam Chomsky and the Compatible Left, Part I\|date=2019/09/15\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191115230624/https://lorenzoae.wordpress.com/2019/03/04/noam-chomsky-and-the-compatible-left-part-i/\|retrieved=2022-12-08}}</ref> [[Anti-communism\|anti-communist]]<ref>{{Citation\|author=Michael Parenti\|year=1997\|title=Black Shirts & Reds\|chapter=Left Anticommunism\|chapter-url=https://www.greanvillepost.com/2018/10/06/left-anticommunism-the-unkindest-cut/\|section=Genuflection to Orthodoxy\|quote=Many on the U.S. Left have exhibited a Soviet bashing and Red baiting that matches anything on the Right in its enmity and crudity. Listen to Noam Chomsky holding forth about “left intellectuals” who try to “rise to power on the backs of mass popular movements” and “then beat the people into submission. . . . You start off as basically a Leninist who is going to be part of the Red bureaucracy. You see later that power doesn’t lie that way, and you very quickly become an ideologist of the right. . . . We’re seeing it right now in the [former] Soviet Union. The same guys who were communist thugs two years back, are now running banks and [are] enthusiastic free marketeers and praising Americans” (Z Magazine, 10/95).		'''Avram Noam Chomsky''' is a [[Libertarian_Socialism\|libertarian socialist]], [[Imperialism\|imperialist]]<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Lorenzo A.\|newspaper=[[Popaganda]]\|title=Noam Chomsky and the Compatible Left, Part I\|date=2019/09/15\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191115230624/https://lorenzoae.wordpress.com/2019/03/04/noam-chomsky-and-the-compatible-left-part-i/\|retrieved=2022-12-08}}</ref> [[Anti-communism\|anti-communist]]<ref>{{Citation\|author=Michael Parenti\|year=1997\|title=Black Shirts & Reds\|chapter=Left Anticommunism\|chapter-url=https://www.greanvillepost.com/2018/10/06/left-anticommunism-the-unkindest-cut/\|section=Genuflection to Orthodoxy\|quote=Many on the U.S. Left have exhibited a Soviet bashing and Red baiting that matches anything on the Right in its enmity and crudity. Listen to Noam Chomsky holding forth about “left intellectuals” who try to “rise to power on the backs of mass popular movements” and “then beat the people into submission. . . . You start off as basically a Leninist who is going to be part of the Red bureaucracy. You see later that power doesn’t lie that way, and you very quickly become an ideologist of the right. . . . We’re seeing it right now in the [former] Soviet Union. The same guys who were communist thugs two years back, are now running banks and [are] enthusiastic free marketeers and praising Americans” (Z Magazine, 10/95).

	Chomsky’s imagery is heavily indebted to the same U.S. corporate political culture he so frequently criticizes on other issues. In his mind, the revolution was betrayed by a coterie of “communist thugs” who merely hunger for power rather than wanting the power to end hunger. In fact, the communists did not “very quickly” switch to the Right but struggled in the face of a momentous onslaught to keep Soviet socialism alive for more than seventy years. To be sure, in the Soviet Union’s waning days some, like Boris Yeltsin, crossed over to capitalist ranks, but others continued to resist free-market incursions at great cost to themselves, many meeting their deaths during Yeltsin’s violent repression of the Russian parliament in 1993.\|pdf=https://valleysunderground.files.wordpress.com/2020/04/blackshirts-and-reds-by-michael-parenti.pdf\|isbn=9780872863293}}</ref> who supported the bombing of [[Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1992–2006)\|Yugoslavia]] and is opposed to [[Vladimir Lenin]].<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Noam Chomsky\|newspaper=Chomsky.info\|title=The Soviet Union Versus Socialism\|date=1986\|url=https://chomsky.info/1986____/\|retrieved=2022-12-08}}</ref> However, he is against the [[United States embargo against Cuba\|U.S. blockade of Cuba]].<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Manolo De Los Santos, [[Vijay Prashad]]\|newspaper=[[Liberation News]]\|title=Let Cuba Live—The movement standing up to Biden’s maximum pressure campaign\|date=2021-07-28\|url=https://www.liberationnews.org/let-cuba-live-the-movement-standing-up-to-bidens-maximum-pressure-campaign/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221108211738/https://www.liberationnews.org/let-cuba-live-the-movement-standing-up-to-bidens-maximum-pressure-campaign/\|archive-date=2022-11-08\|retrieved=2022-12-08}}</ref>		Chomsky’s imagery is heavily indebted to the same U.S. corporate political culture he so frequently criticizes on other issues. In his mind, the revolution was betrayed by a coterie of “communist thugs” who merely hunger for power rather than wanting the power to end hunger. In fact, the communists did not “very quickly” switch to the Right but struggled in the face of a momentous onslaught to keep Soviet socialism alive for more than seventy years. To be sure, in the Soviet Union’s waning days some, like Boris Yeltsin, crossed over to capitalist ranks, but others continued to resist free-market incursions at great cost to themselves, many meeting their deaths during Yeltsin’s violent repression of the Russian parliament in 1993.\|pdf=https://valleysunderground.files.wordpress.com/2020/04/blackshirts-and-reds-by-michael-parenti.pdf\|isbn=9780872863293}}</ref> who supported the bombing of [[Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1992–2006)\|Yugoslavia]] and is opposed to [[Vladimir Lenin]].<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Noam Chomsky\|newspaper=Chomsky.info\|title=The Soviet Union Versus Socialism\|date=1986\|url=https://chomsky.info/1986____/\|retrieved=2022-12-08}}</ref> However, he is against the [[United States embargo against Cuba\|U.S. blockade of Cuba]].<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Manolo De Los Santos, [[Vijay Prashad]]\|newspaper=[[Liberation News]]\|title=Let Cuba Live—The movement standing up to Biden’s maximum pressure campaign\|date=2021-07-28\|url=https://www.liberationnews.org/let-cuba-live-the-movement-standing-up-to-bidens-maximum-pressure-campaign/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221108211738/https://www.liberationnews.org/let-cuba-live-the-movement-standing-up-to-bidens-maximum-pressure-campaign/\|archive-date=2022-11-08\|retrieved=2022-12-08}}</ref> He is a prominent and well-known leader of the [[compatible left]] who has received major funding from the [[MICIMATT\|congressional military industrial complex]].<ref>{{Citation\|author=Roderic Day\|year=2020\|title=On Chomsky\|title-url=https://redsails.org/on-chomsky/\|publisher=Red Sails}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation\|author=Roderic Day\|newspaper=Twitter\|title=Chomsky\|date=2020-04-01\|url=https://twitter.com/RodericDay/status/1245340127968333829}}</ref>

	==See Also==		==See Also==

Deogeo: anti-communist reference

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anti-communist reference

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	{{Infobox revolutionary\|name=Noam Chomsky\|image_size=200\|birth_date=December 7, 1928\|birth_place=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, [[United States of America\|United States]]\|image=Noam Chomsky.png}}		{{Infobox revolutionary\|name=Noam Chomsky\|image_size=200\|birth_date=December 7, 1928\|birth_place=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, [[United States of America\|United States]]\|image=Noam Chomsky.png}}

	'''Avram Noam Chomsky''' is a [[Libertarian_Socialism\|libertarian socialist]] ~~and~~ [[Imperialism\|imperialist]]<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Lorenzo A.\|newspaper=[[Popaganda]]\|title=Noam Chomsky and the Compatible Left, Part I\|date=2019/09/15\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191115230624/https://lorenzoae.wordpress.com/2019/03/04/noam-chomsky-and-the-compatible-left-part-i/\|retrieved=2022-12-08}}</ref> who supported the bombing of [[Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1992–2006)\|Yugoslavia]] and is opposed to [[Vladimir Lenin]].<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Noam Chomsky\|newspaper=Chomsky.info\|title=The Soviet Union Versus Socialism\|date=1986\|url=https://chomsky.info/1986____/\|retrieved=2022-12-08}}</ref> However, he is against the [[United States embargo against Cuba\|U.S. blockade of Cuba]].<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Manolo De Los Santos, [[Vijay Prashad]]\|newspaper=[[Liberation News]]\|title=Let Cuba Live—The movement standing up to Biden’s maximum pressure campaign\|date=2021-07-28\|url=https://www.liberationnews.org/let-cuba-live-the-movement-standing-up-to-bidens-maximum-pressure-campaign/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221108211738/https://www.liberationnews.org/let-cuba-live-the-movement-standing-up-to-bidens-maximum-pressure-campaign/\|archive-date=2022-11-08\|retrieved=2022-12-08}}</ref>		'''Avram Noam Chomsky''' is a [[Libertarian_Socialism\|libertarian socialist]], [[Imperialism\|imperialist]]<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Lorenzo A.\|newspaper=[[Popaganda]]\|title=Noam Chomsky and the Compatible Left, Part I\|date=2019/09/15\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191115230624/https://lorenzoae.wordpress.com/2019/03/04/noam-chomsky-and-the-compatible-left-part-i/\|retrieved=2022-12-08}}</ref> [[Anti-communism\|anti-communist]]<ref>{{Citation\|author=Michael Parenti\|year=1997\|title=Black Shirts & Reds\|chapter=Left Anticommunism\|chapter-url=https://www.greanvillepost.com/2018/10/06/left-anticommunism-the-unkindest-cut/\|section=Genuflection to Orthodoxy\|quote=Many on the U.S. Left have exhibited a Soviet bashing and Red baiting that matches anything on the Right in its enmity and crudity. Listen to Noam Chomsky holding forth about “left intellectuals” who try to “rise to power on the backs of mass popular movements” and “then beat the people into submission. . . . You start off as basically a Leninist who is going to be part of the Red bureaucracy. You see later that power doesn’t lie that way, and you very quickly become an ideologist of the right. . . . We’re seeing it right now in the [former] Soviet Union. The same guys who were communist thugs two years back, are now running banks and [are] enthusiastic free marketeers and praising Americans” (Z Magazine, 10/95).

			Chomsky’s imagery is heavily indebted to the same U.S. corporate political culture he so frequently criticizes on other issues. In his mind, the revolution was betrayed by a coterie of “communist thugs” who merely hunger for power rather than wanting the power to end hunger. In fact, the communists did not “very quickly” switch to the Right but struggled in the face of a momentous onslaught to keep Soviet socialism alive for more than seventy years. To be sure, in the Soviet Union’s waning days some, like Boris Yeltsin, crossed over to capitalist ranks, but others continued to resist free-market incursions at great cost to themselves, many meeting their deaths during Yeltsin’s violent repression of the Russian parliament in 1993.\|pdf=https://valleysunderground.files.wordpress.com/2020/04/blackshirts-and-reds-by-michael-parenti.pdf\|isbn=9780872863293}}</ref> who supported the bombing of [[Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1992–2006)\|Yugoslavia]] and is opposed to [[Vladimir Lenin]].<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Noam Chomsky\|newspaper=Chomsky.info\|title=The Soviet Union Versus Socialism\|date=1986\|url=https://chomsky.info/1986____/\|retrieved=2022-12-08}}</ref> However, he is against the [[United States embargo against Cuba\|U.S. blockade of Cuba]].<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Manolo De Los Santos, [[Vijay Prashad]]\|newspaper=[[Liberation News]]\|title=Let Cuba Live—The movement standing up to Biden’s maximum pressure campaign\|date=2021-07-28\|url=https://www.liberationnews.org/let-cuba-live-the-movement-standing-up-to-bidens-maximum-pressure-campaign/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221108211738/https://www.liberationnews.org/let-cuba-live-the-movement-standing-up-to-bidens-maximum-pressure-campaign/\|archive-date=2022-11-08\|retrieved=2022-12-08}}</ref>

	==See Also==		==See Also==
	[https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5be5a25929711449ca9950d4/t/5df7ff1ef8dcf22406cca2ec/1576533792709/Noam+Chomsky+and+the+Compatible+Left.pdf\|Noam Chomsky and the Compatible Left]		[https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5be5a25929711449ca9950d4/t/5df7ff1ef8dcf22406cca2ec/1576533792709/Noam+Chomsky+and+the+Compatible+Left.pdf\|Noam Chomsky and the Compatible Left]

			== References ==
	[[Category:The Compatible Left]]		[[Category:The Compatible Left]]