Noam Chomsky and the Cold War

Although Noam Chomsky primarily established himself as a scholar in the world of linguistics, it was his liberatarian socialist and often anarchist views that brought him to the forefront of Cold War politics. Chomsky describes liberatarian socialism as an idea that calls for challenging hierarchy and overthrowing unjust governments. He has spoken against Cold War attempts at socialism because he did not feel it was representative of the socialist ideals of Marx. He felt that true socialism required that the means of production be democratic and that public ownership had to exist. In the Soviet state that existed under Stalin, Chomsky's definition of true socialism did not exist. Chomsky did however sympathize with Cold War communism in China and Korea because the movement was begun by the people and public ownership did exist to some extent. Chomsky claims that entry into the Cold War with the Soviet Union was motivated by the United States wanting to maintain its place as a dominant world power rather than being motivated by anti-communism. He states that the war was not about tensions over communism itself but instead was driven by the two superpowers' desire to have economic and ideological control over the rest of the world. In "The Victors", a magazine article published in Z magazine in 1990, Chomsky analyzes the victory of the United States in the Cold War and the effect victoy would have domestically and on the rest if the world, particularly in Central America.
http://www.chomsky.info/articles/199011--.htm