Noam Chomsky's statement on killing of Osama bin Laden

[Michael F]

"pragmatic socialist" sounds like something from Rorty, who I consider
to be the American Derrida.  A lot of verbiage and no content,
seriously and I'm not poking fun.  The two of them remind me of
Critias and Charmides from Plato's dialogues, except Critias and
Charmides had an impact on history.

"Is it "utopian" to think we can have a world without a dominant empire that
 steals most of the resources?"

As I stated earlier, any surviving, enduring culture dominates and
steals resources(even a counter-culture): it's in the history books,
and the evidence is immutable, not "relative".  I find it entertaining
to see how a handful of academics let aboriginals peoples from all
over the globe off the hook on this one.  Arguing that "empire" is bad
is an act of war or an intellectual act of violence.  I'll quote The
Judge from Blood Meridian on this one:

"If war is not holy than man is nothing but antic clay(307)."

It is odd how Modern man tries to shape his own image of himself into
something that he finds "palatable", and this image changes as we
"progress".  Ironically, those who like to whimsically shape man's
nature to thier own liking, don't recognize that our "desire" is our
nature and the the particulars are continually varying(historicizing).

Mike

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 9:12 AM, cfabel <cfabel at sfasu.edu> wrote:
> How about anarchism?
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> My question, as far as the isms issue is whether there is substantial
> evidence that Chomsky ascribes to some grand ism. I have never gotten that
> sense from reading him over the years. He seems to be a pragmatic socialist
> with a strong commitment to basic freedoms and the equal application of law.
> Is it "utopian" to think we can have a world without a dominant empire that
> steals most of the resources?
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