Ok but a lot of them were liberals, do we forget that the liberals are not our allies because they participated in a good protest? And participating in protest is something many people still do in a self-serving way to advance their personal brand. Even Keir Starmer participated in many, building his brand as a “leftist wink wink” until fucking over literally everyone.
You can’t look at Chomsky being chummy with these people and justify it with his left wing writing without acknowledging that he is using academic intellectual culture to professionally distance his emotions in order to be chummy and gain what he can from doing so for personal whatever. It’s very obviously unprincipled behaviour that puts the intellectual ahead of the leftism as the first priority.
Ok but a lot of them were liberals, do we forget that the liberals are not our allies because they participated in a good protest? And participating in protest is something many people still do in a self-serving way to advance their personal brand. Even Keir Starmer participated in many, building his brand as a “leftist wink wink” until fucking over literally everyone.
You can’t look at Chomsky being chummy with these people and justify it with his left wing writing without acknowledging that he is using academic intellectual culture to professionally distance his emotions in order to be chummy and gain what he can from doing so for personal whatever. It’s very obviously unprincipled behaviour that puts the intellectual ahead of the leftism as the first priority.