Chomsky says England
Noam Chomsky often talks as if its ok to say just England. This is from his otherwise brilliant discussions on Adam Smith, within 2 paragraphs right next to each other he says:
"He was talking about England and India. He bitterly condemned the British experiments they were carrying out which were devastating India... in England, which is what he’s discussing…the principal architects of policy are the “merchants and manufacturers,” and they make certain that their own interests are, in his words, “most peculiarly attended to,” no matter what the effect on others, including the people of England who, he argued, suffered from their policies….”
Here he freely mixes up ‘England’ and ‘British’ as if it was the same thing, interchangeable terms. and specifically says that Adam Smith thought only about the affects of capitalism on the people of England. Sadly, Chomsky has done this 1000s of times. So easy to just say ‘UK’ instead, and be right every time. so its odd that someone so smart has not noticed this bad habit.
As i say, otherwise Chomsky is fantastic - a treasure trove of info, clear, well made arguments and an impressive 60 year commitment to left wing efforts that is probably without equal. And he kindly wrote the intro to our book PARECOMIC.
Wit a lad!