Here we have a brilliant professor of linguistics at MIT, and a scholar whose theory of "transformational grammar" rocked the academic world (basically, Chomsky has spent most of his career theorizing that all human languages synchronize with an inborn mechanism of the brain which is common throughout humanity).
Then we have the dark side of Prof. Chomsky, the Marxist halfwit who rarely bothers to prove an assertion; who pulls bizarre charges and countercharges from his hat; who is sloppy, irrational, self-contradicting, self-absorbed, and downright hallucinatory in his paranoid and illusory political positions. This Chomsky is a disgrace to academia, to MIT, and to himself.
It will always be a mystery why Chomsky the scholar allows Chomsky the politican to run so wildly across his reputation, and to present an unending stream of ridiculous bilgewater and bile as "fact."
Even more puzzling is why no one on the left calls Chomsky to account in applying his own rigorous linguistics theories (which are quite strong) to the rubbish that emanates from his own mouth.
The following article provides (incidently to its main theme) more info and illumination on Chomsky's intellectual background than anything else I've come across on the web. You'll need to get the full text, which is not available at the original source. See message #14 for an updated link:
Chomsky and the Jews (intro to Partners in Hate: Noam Chomsky and the Holocaust Deniers)
or just go to the complete article directly:
Chomsky simply used other people's axioms to deduce his theories. In politics he is using the wrong axioms and hence his deductions are not physicaly possible and incongruous, though from a mathematical and language point of view they may make "perfect sense" if taken from the initial "heartfelt" assumptions.
THe guy is simply using his janitorial discriminatory mathematical skills corroborated by a French communist mathematician (I dont remember his name, his brother is in the parliament) who explains the mathematical mechanisms of thought through lambda computation programing that are simply proofs of mathematical theorems.
Those super janitors and car salespeople have a nice "body" but no "engine". They try to apply their cleansing methods to people who have to be forgiven of their sins and uncleanliness, not throwing away the baby with the bathwater. But this is an axiom these people cannot accept because what they discovered was done through deforming their minds and bodies into heartless computing machines. They have a final solution for the world just as they sought final solutions to their math problems, just as Hilter had one. Theirs is a bit more complex and less brazen, made of various cultural, ethnic or PC molds. But mind you, them like Hitler have their own final solution.
I first learned of Chomsky when researching reading problems. His linguistic theories are fascinating. What happened to the man?