Chomsky Warns of Risk of Fascism in America

[grumbler]

Chomsky Warns of Risk of Fascism in America
By Matthew Rothschild, April 12, 2010

Noam Chomsky, the leading leftwing intellectual, warned last week that fascism may be coming to the United States.

"I'm just old enough to have heard a number of Hitler's speeches on the radio," he said, "and I have a memory of the texture and the tone of the cheering mobs, and I have the dread sense of the dark clouds of fascism gathering" here at home...

"The level of anger and fear is like nothing I can compare in my lifetime," he said.

He listened to Hitler and yet Nazi Germany doesn't compare to today's level of anger and fear in the US? 

Surely he meant the level of anger and fear in the US in his lifetime, though even then he would be wrong.

I think he meant today's level of anger and fear in the US.  He uses the present tense.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

[ ] Risk of Fascism? pfft if he was a real leftie He'd know that's already happened, the fascists are already running things...  [ / ]

:p

[Razgovory]

One of two things is true:
(1) Lewis wrote this statement fifty years prior to his birth; or
(2) Those who created this demotivator, plus those who promulgate it, are clueless morons who lack reading skills.
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And if Sarah Palin is the rise of Fascism I'll eat my hat.  And I have a fairly good sized hat.

[Razgovory]

And if I get the quoting right on this damn website I'll eat a smaller, paper hat.

[Admiral Yi]

 

[Fireblade]

One of two things is true:
(1) Lewis wrote this statement fifty years prior to his birth; or
(2) Those who created this demotivator, plus those who promulgate it, are clueless morons who lack reading skills.

?

[FunkMonk]

She's naked under that flag.

[Habsburg]

It's not like fascists don't use similar rhetoric.  Both fascism and communism are anti-elite.

So True.

[Eddie Teach]

She's naked under that flag.