..who called Chomsky a fascist?
Well, Chomsky has (inadvertently) actually endorsed fascism by claiming that it was the only economic system that "works". And I quoted a lengthy paragraph from one of his books to prove this.
"Understanding Power: The Indispendsable Chomsky"
Pages 73-74
"There was this huge Depression in the 1930's, world-wide, and at that point everyone understood that capitalism was dead. I mean, whatever lingering beliefs people had had about it, and they weren't much before, they were gone at that point - because the whole capitalist system had just gone into a tailspin: there was no way to save it the way it was going. Well, everyone of the rich countries hit upon more or less the same method - namely, state spending, public spending of some kind, what's called "Keynesian stimulation." And that did finally get countries out of the Depression. In the Fascist countries, it worked out well - they got out pretty fast. And in fact, every country became sort of fascist; again, "fascism" doesn't mean gas chambers, it means a special form of economic arrangement with state coordination of unions and corporations and a big role for big business. And this point about everybody being fascist was made by mainstream Veblenite-type economists right at the time, actually - they said everybody's fascist, the only question is what form the fascism takes: it takes different forms depending on the country's cultural patterns.
Well, in the United States, the form that fascism took at first was the New Deal. But the New Deal was too small, it didn't really have much effect - in 1939, the Depression was still approximately what it had been in 1932. Then came the Second World War, and at that point we became really fascist; we had a totalitarian society basically, with a command economy, wage and price controls, allocations of materials, all done straight from Washington. And the people who were running it were mostly corporate executives, who were called to the capital to direct the economy during the war effort. And they got the point: this worked."
I will repeat my conclusion: it is not inaccurate to say that a person who says that fascism "works" is a fascist. Chomsky did so. If Malkovich has said something similar to this, post it please.
And where does the "Judeo-" come in to the equation - you assuming he's Jewish or something?
The issue over which Malkovich has tunnel vision is Israel.
What makes you so sure of this. The only thing I can recall reading by Fisk is a couple of ridiculous articles during the anti-Taliban/Al Qaida campaign in Afghanistan. This was enough for anyone intelligent person to realize Fisk is an idiot and it has nothing to do with Israel. |
