Perhaps most strikingly, in late February 2019, Epstein represented to an associate that he had gotten advice from Chomsky over how to navigate “the horrible way you are being treated in the press and public”.

“The best way to proceed is to ignore it,” Chomsky wrote, according to text signed under his first name that Epstein sent to a lawyer and publicist. “That’s particularly true now with the hysteria that has developed about abuse of women, which has reached the point that even questioning a charge is a crime worse than murder.”

How did anyone ever consider this guy an intellectual giant of the western left is beyond me.

[–] huf@hexbear.net 33 points 1 day ago (6 children)

he was the only intellectual the west had left..,.

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

An intellectual that couldnt bother to understand dialectics and that calls Marx description of capital an abstraction? Lmao

[–] huf@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago

shrug apparently when you discount all the unacceptable intellectuals (tankies), this is what you're left with.

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