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Chomsky's puzzling PR strategy

His theory for how to argue against imperialism is really just a PR strategy - and a dubious one at that.

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Carl Beijer
Aug 30, 2022
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Anti-imperialists aren’t following Noam Chomsky’s PR strategy! That’s the core grievance of what I guess is supposed to be some kind of epic takedown rant by Twitter personality and occasional blogger Zei Squirrel. She doesn’t put it that way, of course; like a lot of folks, Zei thinks that a particular approach to anti-imperialism popularized by Chomsk…

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