Not posting this in agreement with Chomsky but just for discussion, as this is the first time I think Chomsky has said anything about antifa and the emboldening of the right in the States since Trump's election.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/noam-chomsky-antifa-is-a-major-gift-to...
Ugh... Not sure why anyone still thinks Chomsky has any relevance to current expressions of radicalism. He's proved how out of touch he is year after year with his various endorsements of electoralism, his refusal to acknowledge the responsibility of academia in general and MIT in particular as part of the militarized state, and now this full-on bourgeois-liberal condemnation of direct action.