Re: Yoshie's Points about Chomsky

["jon farr" <ga666@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>
>Who is Jared Israel? I have a feeling that he is too modest to answer this
>question, but I will on his behalf. Jared was one of the central leaders of
>SDS in the 1960s. Based in Boston, he was a key figure in the Harvard
>Student Strike of 1969. I dare say that without grass roots leaders like
>Jared Israel, Chomsky never would have had an audience to speak to. It was
>SDS'ers like Jared Israel and antiwar movement organizers like myself (I
>worked with the Harvard Student Mobilization Committee) that created the
>movement. None of the big names from the 1960s (Chomsky, Abby Hoffman, Jane
>Fonda, et al) would have amounted to a hill of beans if it hadn't been for
>activists like us going around late at night in cold, rainy weather risking
>arrest wheat-pasting posters for some demonstration.
>
>Louis Proyect
>
>The Marxism mailing-list: http://www.marxmail.org


Then I do indeed take my hat off to you Jared and apologise for challenging
your credentials. However it is then equally confusing that  you (Jared)
having been an activist would take credit away from Chomsky and in fact it
would have shown good grace to share credit with Chomsky. Also this still
doesn't excuse your Serbophilia which (credentials or no credentials) I find
quite imature, I get accused of ethnocentricity all the time because of my
distaste for much of western culture and have to guard against it, thus to
listen to someone (even with the best intentions) blatantly slander a
brilliant man like Chomsky makes me kind of sick.

Yours Jon



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