We will move past this era of Chomsky. One day we will look back on the defeat-after-defeat that coexisted with his 30-or-so years of unofficial misleadership of the Western left. And then Tarzie’s 2015 appraisal will appear definitive:
The high perch from which Chomsky tells us how free we are was likely only vacant because state agents murdered all consequential Black leaders and squashed every other left-wing movement. In the ensuing years, white guys writing books supplanted visionaries with megaphones while the prison population grew. [36]
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