Prof Noam Chomsky - On the Cold War

Was the Cold War a battle between capitalism and socialism?

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News & Politics

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• Cold War
• Capitalism
• Socialism; Russia
• America
• Economy
• Super power
• Foreign Policy

[Lunis]

I just learned more about the Cold War in 6 minutes than I did all through high school.

[hvossoogh]

Am certain every period must have had its own particular, specific, saviour of the intellect, those gifted prophets who were gifts themselves to humanity. For us, thanks God for NC. It, (his thoughts), makes 'thinking', very enjoyable.

[KrugmanTheKing]

@knicklas48

The day you will be able to approach the question formally, come back. If you cannot do that, you can obviously continue to troll with insults and I won't even try to convince you to do otherwise because it would mean you'd be too dumb to understand where's the problem.

But if you do show up with a substantiated case -- and it has to be big and solid, as well as offer many instances because you're discrediting the whole of his thoughts -- I will discuss.

[KrugmanTheKing]

@knicklas48

Documents, that I must had, are published by people who can't have any incentive to falsify data so that it proves themselves fundamentally wrong...

Basically, you're someone who disagrees with what Chomsky says and like an 8 years old (it's not an ad hominen, I'm referring to the cognitive schemes you're showing here) you think he's wrong on that basis without bothering to actually understand what he thinks before evaluating it.

[KrugmanTheKing]

@knicklas48

Hidden, dark facts that are incomprehensible? I hope that you're trying to demonstrate that you are incompetent and ignorant with regard to what you're talking about because you're currently poking at a straw-man and relying unto a false analogy.

All the others do not have the factual substance required to make their claims... but guess what? Chomsky does. And, better: do you know where he takes it? Many of them are directly coming from official, public, documents.

[KrugmanTheKing]

@knicklas48

Do you even understand what demagogy is? He must support the instituted power to be a demagogue... it's about putting in place measures that seduce the pubic into favoring your position as a figure of authority.

Tell me now how is Chomsky doing this, firstly and, secondly, you're going to have to explain how the hell would it even matter at all? You still have to attack the ideas, not the author.

[AliceNchainz011]

@cornishpastie9 Of course it is, but out of all the republican candidates, Paul is clearly the most preferable. Many of his proposed spending cuts wouldn't even get approval from congress anyway...like when Reagan talked a big game about cutting spending in the 80s, but in reality did anything but that.

[cornishpastie9]

@AliceNchainz011

I know that, but domestic policy is important too.

[AliceNchainz011]

@cornishpastie9 Ron Paul and Chomsky don't see eye to eye on domestic policy, but on foreign policy, they are very much alike (based on what both have said over the years)

[knicklas48]

@MsTommyknocker "Chomskey"(sic) is a demogogue and a hypocrite. He's denied the Cambodian killing fields really happened. Did you know that?

[knicklas48]

@Incognitoification1 You're a coward and weakling because you're compelled to fantasiize about the death of someone simply disagrees with you. Like UFOers, birthers, holocaust deniers and other conspiracy freaks, goofs like Chomsky are compelled to find deep, dark facts that are hidden and incomprehensible to the hoi poloi.

[MsTommyknocker]

Chomskey is NOT a demagogue. He works at MIT for crying out loud