he doesn't hold a direct link to BLM? do you know anything about chomsky's position and role in american public life? he was THE main 'public intellectual' for about two decades. he was like the main fucking political critic of american liberal life! he is HUGE! he has written as a sort of pater familias and commentator on EVERY american debacle! chomsky always has a soundbite! whether it's the bush era wars, civil rights struggle, school shootings -- anything! chomsky has a book on it!
and chomsky ... hates foucault! hates french theory! like most american thinkers who rejected it in the 1970s!
and that's because ... he ties into a very alive, and extant, american tradition of protest, and activism, that has nothing to do with french theory or revolutionary marxism. all that continental shit really has had no major influence on american life. it didn't take two french guys in the 1970s to bring feminism, disputes over truth, power, civil rights, etc. to america. are you seriously dense? all of those topics, the civil rights movement, the labour movement, the feminist movement, the post-colonial struggle, etc. went way back into the 19th century.
chomsky, martin luther king, malcolm x are many, many times more relevant to BLM than fucking derrida or deleuze or whatever.
you literally have a barely working knowledge of western philosophy. claiming that chomsky's 'main contributions are into human nature' (they're not, he is a lingust who wrote on universal grammar and cognition) is like skimming a wikipedia article.
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