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Transcript of a Youtube video. Noam Chomsky says:

If you look at the history of French culture since the end of the Second World War, it has some strange characteristics. Let's take the 1970's when this began to blossom. The French intellectuals were the last dedicated Stalinists. I mean, some of them were a little shaken by the end of 1956, but if they weren't Stalinists they were Maoists. I remember, and I don't know if it's fair to mention names, but I happened to meet Kristeva in Paris in the 1970's, a flaming Maoist. And it was pretty common all the way through. There's a history in France, which has some justification, that they are somehow at the peak of cultural life, so whatever they're doing that's what’s important. In fact France is an extremely insular culture, always has been. Everything is in France, nothing is anywhere else, anything that's anywhere else doesn't matter.