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Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship is Chomsky's powerful indictment of a liberal intelligentsia that provided self-serving arguments for war in Vietnam, legitimizing U.S. commitment to autocratic rule, to intervention in Asia and, ultimately, the "pacification" of millions. Over thirty years after their first printing, these are prophetic words, as today America effects "regime change" in Iraq and an increasingly boisterous militarism around the globe. Included here is Chomsky's classic counter-analysis of the Spanish Civil War as a revolutionary war from below, as he lays bare the hostility of even liberal scholarly elites to engage in mass movements and social change, revealing not objectivity, but its opposite--the use of ideology to mask self-interest and obeisance to power. Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship is a crucial signpost of Chomsky's searing contribution to our age, and an indispensable lens through which to consider mainstream punditry today. This is the fourth in a series of Chomsky's classic political books reissued by The New Press. The others are American Power and the New Mandarins, For Reasons of State, and Problems of Knowledge and Freedom. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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To go on to the Spanish Civil War--Chomsky most notably takes to task a prominent historian--Gabriel Jackson for his pro-Soviet anti-revolutionary stance. This is a not a contradicttion to Chomsky (nor to me for that matter--I have read quite a bit on this particular event and it's my view that the Soviet Union or Stalin sabotaged the Republic, or the workers' movement best represented by the Socialist UGT and the larger Anarchist CNT). The Spanish communist party gained controlled over the Loyalist Govt. through the banks and lending institutions, through the almost total control and distribution (or lack of) of arms coming into the country meant to fight the fascist Franco and his allies Mussolini and Hitler, through the demolition of the new foundations in agriculture and industry begun by those who had initially stopped Franco and his allies in their tracks, and through the network of police and terror squads that they set up to carry out the torture and assassinations against those supposedly fighting the same war and on the same side who would not kowtow to their dogmatic view of the world thereby highjacking and destroying the revolutionary aspirations of the mass of the population. The historical viewpoint in this particular matter--which has gotten very short shrift at least when considering it as the major prelude into the World War II years--has gone through a sea change since this particular Chomskian work. For those interested history now records this event with a lot more accuracy and much more in line with Chomsky's premise. The pro-soviet histories written by left leaning intellectuals upto and into the times of the early 70's have been for the most part discredited. ( )