Several of the advisors on this thesis are lefties, Ben Kiernan (who
has
written for New Left Review book publisher Verso on the Khmer Rouge
and for
the longstanding academic left journal, Journal of Contemporary Asia)
and
David Chandler has published in the Bulletin of Concerned Asia
Scholars,
another lefty journal, founded by New Leftists in the late 60's.
Douglas
Pike, is a right-winger, wrote a book in the mid 60's published by
MIT Press
on the NLF/VC that the Noamster rubbished in one of the essays
in, "American
Power and the New Mandarins, " from 1967.
  This senior thesis, is one of the most detailed criticisms of
Chomsky that
cannot, unlike say something in TNR or The New Criterion, be viewed
as a
right-wing hit.
Michael Pugliese
http://www-mcnair.berkeley.edu/uga/osl/mcnair/Sophal_Ear_canon.html
UNDERGRADUATE POLITICAL SCIENCE HONORS THESIS:
THE KHMER ROUGE CANON 1975-1979:

The Standard Total Academic View on Cambodia
Sophal Ear
Department of Political Science
University of California, Berkeley
Ronald E. McNair Scholar

Academic Achievement Division

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May 1995
CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS                                                 3
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION                                         4
CHAPTER 2: ROMANTICIZING THE KHMER REVOLUTION                  13
CHAPTER 3: THE CHOMSKY-LACOUTURE CONTROVERSY                   43
CHAPTER 4: BEYOND THE STAV                                     70
CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSION                                          96
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