Noam Chomsky's statement on killing of Osama bin Laden

[Mark Kohut]

http://www.thenation.com/blog/160725/cornel-west-v-barack-obama


 


Subject: Re: Noam Chomsky's statement on killing of Osama bin Laden

Michael F. asks:
Cornell West, a moral philosopher?  A moral Marxist exists out there?

Yes. Can exist. Just as a moral Republican can. 

Schwartzenegger could have been one, but it doesn't seem he was,  too much. 

 


----- Original Message ----
From: Michael F <mff8785 at gmail.com>
To: Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net>
Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Tue, May 17, 2011 10:02:50 PM
Subject: Re: Noam Chomsky's statement on killing of Osama bin Laden

Cornell West, a moral philosopher?  A moral Marxist exists out there?
I heard the man speak when I was in college 10 years ago at the state
university that I attended and I was lured in, enamored and angry!,
hell, I went out and read everything available at the local Barnes and
Nobles(Race Matters, Democracy Matters, and the Cornell West Reader).
It was funny, everyone he referenced were recently-distanced from the
academy, and by today's standards, antiquated Marxists from Europe:
ideologues, which appear and disappear within 40 or 50 years.  Chomsky
and West are of similar sophistic natures.  They are celebrities, not
philosophers.  Amazing how they turn their back on Obama.  They are
typical of the "revolutionaries" that particular(not all) institutions
and departments are creating.  I actually prefer Ward Churchill to the
turn-coats!  Ward could put on a show and his histrionics are much
more entertaining and humorous than West's preaching/ hip-hop act and
Noam's solemn delivery.

Mike

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 6:54 AM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
> Here is a more comprehensive critique of Obama and the Democrats by Cornel
> West, who knows Obama well.
> http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/16-1#comment-1831028
>
> On May 17, 2011, at 6:26 AM, Henry M wrote:
>
> Few people in the world will ever read Chomsky's comments (only a very small
> percentage of the country read well enough to understand his academic
> prose).  Some number more than those few will listen to Amy Goodman's
> similarly provacative but impracticle shows.  Nader and Moore at least get
> their divisive messages out to the people.
>
> I think the best couse for the forseeable future is for people to hear and
> read the stalking-horse American left, but to come back to supporting the
> Dems as the only practical bulwark agains a very long, dark theocratic
> totalitarian era.
>
> AsB4,
> ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶
> Henry Mu
> http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20
>