"Oh, never mind, you think communism was a good thing..."

Wrong. Get outta here with that nonsense. You must not have understood much of what you have read by Noam.

Never mind that the Soviets' was largely a bloodless coup in the world's second most powerful country. Gorbachev and his Communists peacefully acceded to Yeltsin and his brand of Russian nationalism, which soon proved to be the Slavic version of Godfather 6.
For years, the right said that blood would have to flow in the streets before communists anywhere would surrender power, but they were wrong. There were few deaths, and the Communists voluntarily reliquished their power just about everywhere in the Eastern Bloc, save Romania, where our favotite communist dictaor, Caeucescu, was murdered by his own teeming masses.

The number of deaths relative to the amount of power transferred was miniscule. The rigid capitalists were just projecting onto the Communists their own hatred of democracy and their willingness to hold on to capital, property, and privilege at any cost. Hundreds of thousands of people died in the Russian Revolution because of White Russian Resistance fostered by Allied money in 1918 and 1919. Hundreds of thousands more died in Central America in a war waged by American proxies to make sure that socialism as an alternative economy did not gain a foothold in Nicaraugua, El Salvador, or Guatamela. One could argue the same about Cuba, Chile, the Phillipines, and countless other countries in which the forces of the right, allied and financed by imperialist powers, have fought to the death to defend the economic status quo.

That's the way history will interpret it, unless GE, Disney, Time Warner, and Viacom monopolize all the intellectual property rights in this and the Twenty-Second Century.

That wouldn't include "Rethinking Camelot", where he debunks all the posthumous nonsense about JFK as a peacemaking dove, published in 1993. You clearly haven't read and really appreciated Chomsky. He wasn't any different before September 11. If you're waiting for Chomsky to endorse every conspiracy theory that comes along, then stop saying you have respect for his contributions to our understanding of U.S. foreign policy. You people go on, and on, and on, and on about this with him because you're looking for somebody with a name to endorse YOUR IDIOT CULT! He won't do it, and good for him.