c.j.mackp
The left is just an extension of the right. They don't even know how to read. If the twoo other commentators had read your article properly, tehy would have realized that you didn't make any of the accusations. You even commended on Rupert. However, you are right. The left elite, like the elite on the right,is not about resolving the issues that we face. They both want us poor and voiceless so as they have some thing to write about and meke money with it. Remember all the stories and books and magazines, written about the situation of people all over the world, goes to sustain the life of the leftists. None of the money acquired from the sale of books or stories or fotos, goes to help any of the victims. It is just another industry. The poor - world over- is a source of income for the educate of the right or the left. Take Noam Chomsky, he is well read and well versed on the issues at hand. Do you see him talking about organizing the people against the state? Do you hear him calling on his students and supporters to create organizations to question the status quo? Every one of the academia, is not a Che Guevara. And we all know that it it difficult to make a revolution when you are well fed (and the left is too bloated on food and alcohool), the same that it is difficult to make a revolution if you are hungry.
Also the left is mostly run for and by the academic millieu. Hell you wouldn't catch a Noam Chomsky or any of the other self proclaimed left wing recognized name speaking in a labour hall to union workers or in the halls of the homeless.
So how obtuse can you get? The left is no different than the right. Their process is the same. The important is not the words. Just look at their action and the effect their action has.
Look at the Green party in Germany. Once in power they even went to war.
So we are doomed. The new agers are no different and the vegan yoga are even involved in sexual scandals. There is no where one can run. All the money made and all the books written by all these leftists, is left for perpetuating structures that has room for academically trained people. No accredited papers, no voice. You and I are zeros.
jay p.pick

well, you're wrong about chomsky. he speaks to union halls all the time, encourages his students to get active and routinely comments on his thoughts about organizing. i won't go into detail, but basically chomsky does encourage everyone to organize, but he won't spell it out because he believes people know their best interests, know their details, etc. he also doesn't like to use the phrase left/right as those words don't mean too much. chomsky is one dude, and he does what he can (as he says). i think his writing is invaluable and i am grateful that he focuses on that. he doesn't have to do everything.

anyways, i think you're being incredibly self-defeating.

a nobody

Here we go again about dogging leftists as academics who are out of
touch with the people. That one went out of style in 1975, but then
every generation has to re-learn these issues decade after decade.
Don't get me wrong, I also see the problem in academics being elitist
and out of touch with actual workers movements, but lets not be
defeatist losers here just because we feel like we have no voice. The
point made by one of the respondents is that in obsessing in having a
voice, people tend to fall into the trap of reproducing the whole cult of
elistism through egocentricity in just the same manner that the leftist
elite and the rest of society does. The gentlemen didn't exactly recommend
Ruppert so much as express envy that he didn't have the same clout
as he does. Many academics and other not-so-elitist thinkers do get
involved in workers movement and grassroots politics, its just that you
don't hear from them because due to their positions on issues they
never get published or even broadcast on KPFK, etc. The disconnect
between them and the people is a reality that needs to be alleviated,
but after a while it gets tired and activists need to spend more time
dogging the system and making people aware of their subjugation to
capitalism and all of its forms (consumption and the media) rather
than wasting time bashing their own.

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Chomsky has been active in politcal causes and not isolated in the ivory tower. I know he's been to East Timor a few times in addition to the occupied territories. Also, he's talked at union halls, for the Middle East Children Alliance, and tons of other groups and organizations and gives all the money to them. He definitely puts his money where is mouth is.

He's also very accessible to people. I wrote an email to him a while back when I was working on my MA Thesis. I figured I was some dude at a public college and he probably wouldn't get back to me in month if at all. Within the next 48 hours he had replied and offered some suggestions. He is an all around great guy.