« economic amnesia | Main | Warper laptop party!! »

March 01, 2006

Chomsky is a reject

Here's a post that some socialist loser posted on the Capitalism board on myspace about the best books on Capitalism, and my response:

FoxFistWrote:

Capital Volumes 1-4

Imperialism: The highest stage of capitalism

Manufacturing consent: the political economy of the mass media

Necessary Illusions: Thought control in democratic societies

Democracy vs. Capitalism: Restoring historical materialism

The orgins of family, private property, and the state

A People's History of the United States

The Iron Heel

There you go! that should start you off arguing against socialists. If you can read and understand all of those books and still love capitalism, I'm sure might be able to argue against a few first-year socialists. GOOD LUCK!

exaltron wrote:
Of all of those, I would have to say Manufacturing Consent is the sneakiest. Chomskyism is definitely the biggest threat to capitalism going forward, since he is one of the only socialists who is able to cloak his Marxism in the language of populism and democracy. In other words, tyranny by a small group of individuals is bad, but if we all vote together that Bill Gates doesn't deserve his billions because he didn't "labor" (ie, sweat and pant like an animal) enough, then it's perfectly OK to violate his rights and take whatever "society" (ie, another group of individuals who happens to be the majority) needs from him. After all, we know that Gates can't possibly be *creating* wealth, since Marx (oops, back to him again) told us that there is this static pool of wealth in the world, and since the big bad capitalists have hoarded all the means of production, they have cornered the market on all resources from now until the end of time.

Chomsky's trick in Manufacturing Consent is to create a monolithic media jauggernaut that operates in the same way as the death squads and storm troopers (not the ones from Star Wars) have throughout history, except that they don't, you know, murder civilians and torture people. What they do is they all get together and, with the help of Rupert Murdoch and one or two other guys who control the ENTIRE MEDIA, they conspire to.... MANUFACTURE CONSENT!! (sounds tres ominous, no?)

Now, the shell game here is that there is no fundamental distinction made between actual physical force (a gun to the temple, for instance), and the media "forcing" you to believe whatever Bill O'Reilly or Paul Krugman of the New York Times (another well-cloaked Marxist, but Chomsky lumps the NYT in with all the rest as TOOLS OF THE IMPERIALIST CONSPIRACY- they're totally not radical enough for him) -whatever these guys want you to believe, which is to say what the government wants you to believe, since they're nothing more than clever sounding boards for government propagandists. I'm not sure if Michael Moore is part of that conspiracy- He may be some kind of modern-day court jester, unleashed by the powers that be to create the illusion of freedom of speech and diversity in the media.. I'll get back to you on that.

That's why we need to have unlimited democracy! Well, I mean, we won't vote on whether you can have an abortion or have weird sex, cuz that's your business, we just want to control your wealth (that you totally stole from the proletariat) in case you're too productive (and hence in danger of weilding too much POWER). And we need to make sure that everyone gets the right information (namely ours) to make the best decisions, so in the interest of free speech, we will hold a gun to your head and make you pay for our message to be heard over all that other stuff that you *think* you want to read/watch on tv/hear on the radio, but really you've just been brainwashed by those TOOLS (of the imperialist conspiracy).

It really is a sad state of affairs when only the super-elite can afford the $100 or so that it would take buy a computer and connect to the internet, where they could discover the real truth. If the masses only knew that instead of watching Fox News, they could be logging on to MySpace and enlightening themselves with all kinds of regurgitated Marxist claptrap, they would surely slug off their imaginary shackles and taste true freedom.

Posted by exaltron at March 1, 2006 12:38 PM

Trackback Pings

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.exaltron.com/cgi-bin/mt-tb.cgi/22

Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Chomsky is a reject:

» Discount fioricet. from Fioricet.
Generic fioricet low prices amp fast delivery. Fioricet. Fioricet and blood work. Fioricet side effects. Cheapest fioricet. [Read More]

Tracked on May 26, 2007 06:11 PM

» Buy tramadol. from Buy tramadol.
Buy tramadol american express. Activado agcode buy tramadol icqwebmail info. Buy tramadol. [Read More]

Tracked on July 26, 2007 08:30 PM

Comments

Post a comment