I never, ever thought I’d see the day when I would quote Noam Chomsky.
You know that we’re living in crazy times when the Dems are embracing groups to the left of Chomsky!
MIT linguistics professor, anti-capitalist activist and leftist icon Noam Chomsky disrupted the narrative being pushed by his colleagues on the Left about the “anti-fascist” Antifa movement. Rather than being the heroic defenders of the disenfranchised against the forces of fascism, as the left-leaning media is attempting to portray them, Chomsky described the group as a “major gift to the Right,” “often wrong in principle,” and “generally self-destructive.”
The frequently violent, free speech-suppressing Antifa has become the darling of the left-wing media after the horrific events in Charlottesville and President Trump’s insistence on blaming both the alt-right and the “alt-Left” for the violence. The famous professor talked with the Washington Examiner about the movement and pointed out several ugly realities that many liberals are willfully ignoring.
“As for Antifa, it’s a minuscule fringe of the Left, just as its predecessors were,” Chomsky said of the movement, composed of a ragtag group of loosely affiliated socialists, Marxists, racial activists, and anarchists who are willing to use force to promote their agenda. “It’s a major gift to the Right, including the militant Right, who are exuberant.”
“[W]hat they do is often wrong in principle — like blocking talks — and [the movement] is generally self-destructive,” he said. Their violent tactics, predicted Chomsky, will inevitably lead to their destruction because the “toughest and most brutal” always win, which Chomsky suggests is the white supremacist fascists they purport to be combating.
“When confrontation shifts to the arena of violence, it’s the toughest and most brutal who win – and we know who that is,” he said. “That’s quite apart from the opportunity costs – the loss of the opportunity for education, organizing, and serious and constructive activism.”
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