Thursday, January 24, 2008

The Anti-Chomsky Reader

Edited by Peter Collier and David Horowitz, this 2005 collection of essays, newly available for download at audible.com, debunks the work of one of the last half century's most influencial apologists for communist mass-murderers. As well as Chomsky's propogandizing on behalf of Ho Chi Minh and Pol Pot, the book covers his virulent hatred of Israel, his associations with Holocaust deniers, and his resurgent guru-status on the anti-war left, post 9-11.

related: review from Reason magazine.

"One of the peculiar phenomena of our time is the renegade Liberal," wrote George Orwell in 1945. He meant not the classical liberal who believed in individual freedoms and small government but the leftist liberal who glorified communist experiments and disdained middle-class life. To Orwell, the existence of intellectuals who loved the Soviet Union despite the purges, mocked "bourgeois liberty" despite the pleasing bourgeois circumstances of their own lives, and identified with revolutionary movements that would speedily ship them off to camps--this was a fact in need of explanation...