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As for Antifa, it’s a minuscule fringe of the Left, just as its predecessors were,” Noam Chomsky told the
Washington Examiner. “It’s a major gift to the Right, including the militant Right, who are exuberant.”…
Chomsky said, “what they do is often wrong in principle – like blocking talks – and [the movement] is generally self-destructive.”
“When confrontation shifts to the arena of violence, it’s the toughest and most brutal who win – and we know who that is,” said Chomsky, a professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “That’s quite apart from the opportunity costs – the loss of the opportunity for education, organizing, and serious and constructive activism.”
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