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I'm gathering his understanding isn't very good, if my understanding of the article he supplied is any good at all.
In it, Chomsky says, "We destroy or at least undermine the governing mechanisms by which people at least in principle can participate to the extent that society’s democratic. So weaken them, undermine unions, other forms of association, leave a sack of potatoes and meanwhile transfer decisions to unaccountable private power all in the rhetoric of freedom." This is precisely the sort of thing I see @Trotsky railing against pretty nearly every day, including today.
Once I saw Jack say "you don't seem to know what 'neoliberal' means," I knew exactly who he was talking to. VivaRev is a mid-century conservative (that is, someone who is superficially supportive of unions and ambivalent to trade, but opposed to everything adjacent to and important to workers' interests and the interests of exploited people and basically anything that requires substantial thought or reconsideration of powers, yet somehow thinks himself a socialist class warrior.
I used to give him a little bit of a pass, or at least try to, on the basis that he means well, but it's getting harder and harder to do that as he continues to align himself with right-wingers that he knows are exploiting his emotions.