ACCORDING TO THE JERUSALEM POST, Noam Chomsky the world renowned academic, polymath and martyr of Left-wing causes has attacked Europe for its delay in admitting Turkey into the European Union; believing such a delay is based upon racist attitudes rather than any objective assessment of its entitlement to membership.
As someone who left school at fifteen without any kind of academic qualification, I have always felt inferior to and been wary of any kind of scholarly professional: and now, at the age of 60, while I feel the greatest admiration for academic success, and truly envy such accomplishment; I have however lived long enough to have experienced life for myself which many an academic has been protected from.
From my late teens to my late twenties I was convinced that the future belonged to Communism. To me Marx’s dialectic was as sane and as logical as Darwin’s theory of Evolution, which I also accepted, and still do accept as reality.
The point I am making is that no matter how brilliant a mind, its possessor can be as stupid and naive as the rest of us less gifted mortals. The world of academia can be as stifling as it is liberating, and its apostles just as wrong as the rest of us. I may respect an academics’ knowledge, but I no longer feel inferior to it.
Which is why I take issue with Noam Chomsky and his charge of racism against Europe. I am no lover of the European Union, it seeks to reduce nations to mere cantons and seek to remove from them their sovereignty. The overlordship of this enterprise comprise the European Commissioners…unelected bureaucrats who virtually govern nation states by having the legal right to override the elected wishes of the people of Europe. Which in practice means that the governments the people elect are ultimately answerable to appointed bureaucrats who can override a nation’s law in favour of one concocted by the European Commissioners
So as someone who is no friend of the European project, I must however take issue with Chomsky’s slander.
BEING AS HE HAS, the compass of the Left, Noam Chomsky no doubt felt that he had to give backbone to Europe’s Left as they challenge their various ‘racist’ government’s exclusion of Turkey from the European brotherhood… if I were the elected president of Turkey I would have welcomed, if not demanded, my exclusion from such an enterprise.
But if Mr Chomsky insists, as his comments reported in the Jerusalem Post suggest, that Turkey should be admitted to the European Union immediately, then who are we to oppose such a request from such a academically gifted intruder. I am sure he has many followers among the idealistic youth of Europe who are prepared to take to the streets on behalf of Mr Chomsky .
Mr Chomsky has to understand, as a ‘Marxist/anarchist/socialist’, the titles he has been variously described as holding, that the working classes of Europe stand four square with Angela Merkle, the German president, when she insisted, according to Chomsky, “ that Muslims in the country must accept that Germany's culture is based on Christian and Jewish values - was a pretty extreme and racist statement from a major political figure in Europe.”
Chomsky declares that this is a racist comment. It is no such thing, and this much adored prince of academia has finally hit the buffer. The reason that Europe does not wish to entertain this medieval religion, and to add further to its numbers in Europe, is because we already have living among us some 15 million Muslims. We do not require the admittance of a further 80 million from Turkey; and if Europe agreed to such an avalanche, I for one hope that the people of Europe would finally rebel over something so significant.
The continent of Europe has always been a continent of nations. It has often been a struggle to meet the requirement of nationhood; but once reached through great sacrifice the instinct was always to hang on to it. This continent has values in conflict with a medieval religion; a religion that has never fostered a Reformation or been part of a great age of Enlightenment.
For all of its faults, and they are many and varied, Europe is right to keep its distance from Turkey, until such a time when the Islamic world starts to believe in the democratic values that the West has spilt buckets of blood creating and defending. I have no doubt that the Islamic world wishes total religious hegemony over the planet.
If this is paranoia, it is no more so than when it was Communism and Fascism seeking the same objective. Christianity during the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries also sought the same intent as does present day Islam.
Chomsky has had his day. Remember, he chooses his current battle in light of the failures of his earlier ones; just as today’s Marxists, socialists and anarchists also conspire, in ever fewer numbers, for the overthrow of capitalism.
Like petulant children who have had their toys taken from them, Chomsky and his merry band of radical chic would rather give their support to a medieval religion and its followers than ever countenance any rapprochement with the evil that is capitalism.
TO CHOMSKY, NO ACT undertaken by Western leaders bodes particularly well for the rest of mankind. It seems to an uneducated mind like my own that Chomsky would sooner sip from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's table than President Obama’s. He would sooner give his allegiance to medievalism than ever admit that his precious dialectic had been unhinged by history; the very force that Marx determined would change mankind forever and bring them into equilibrium with each other.
The so called ‘progressive’ Left have been made barren by historical developments. Their ideas of how society should be orchestrated, are insane simply because no society can be orchestrated, especially by the state. In a democracy the people speak and the politician’s listen. In the kind of society the Left has mapped out for us, the people’s mouths are gagged tightly shut on penalty of imprisonment.
I suppose, for the likes of Chomsky, today’s Islamists are comparable to those who stormed the Winter Palace. They stand full square against the West and capitalism. To Chomsky and his like, it matters little what they would replace the West with as long as the machinery of capitalism was destroyed.
For, in a way, socialism no longer matters to the Left. All what matters is that the wretched itch of capitalism should be relieved.
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