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Noam Chomsky for example is accused of the same thing for the Pol Pot genocide, though at the time he was right for the same reasons

It's also a valid opinion to criticize Chomsky for his reaction to the Cambodian genocide.I can't recall all the details of how things went down, so I have no comment myself, but I do have other criticisms of him.

It doesn't make him a fascist, or a Nazi/Nazi sympathizer. That would detract from what I have to say about the people who actually are, since that's a separate conversation. Same goes for the devs perhaps (but that's also a separate conversation).

It is extremely harmful when people like them go around non-tankie left wing subs and eventually gain control through nefarious means and eventually transition it into yet another tankie propaganda sub. Or when they moderate a supposedly general left wing sub but any criticism of authoritarian communism gets you muted and called a liberal, eventually allowing their propaganda to seep through to regular socialists as any criticism is shot down. /r/GreenAndPleasant is guilty of the latter.

It's not really the politics but the way power hungry people get.

Noam Chomsky for example is accused of the same thing for the Pol Pot genocide, though at the time he was right for the same reasons – accusations started flying in the US based on completely banal sources.

You're giving Chomsky's version of the story, but it's such a weird story because one of the only communist projects Chomsky ever spoke in favor of was easily one of the worst ones (along with Peru), ones that even hardcore "tankies" disavow. Like, wasn't this the motherfucker that said the dissolution of the Soviet Union was a victory for the "left"?

Granted, there is misreporting on Cambodia, which started when it was contemporary and continues to this day, but that misreporting is mostly on the magnitude of the crimes committed, not the basis of calling them crimes (i.e. they were still awful).

Anyway, Chomsky is a shitty left-neoliberal [PDF]