I’ve often wondered whether he was worth my time to investigate further, since on one hand I regularly hear him cited as a remarkable and inspiring figure, and on the other, I’ve never read an argument of his that I found enlightening or unusually well formulated.
Yes, I too once wondered this so I read Chomsky on Anarchism (I think just because it sounded like an interesting topic), and came away with the conclusion that Chomsky’s intuition was that people were primarily motivated by something like ‘solidarity’ than was consistent with my intuitions (and generally along worker/non-worker lines). He does also have a habit of being intellectually rude by switching topics frequently and saying things which he should know are false.
I’ve often wondered whether he was worth my time to investigate further, since on one hand I regularly hear him cited as a remarkable and inspiring figure, and on the other, I’ve never read an argument of his that I found enlightening or unusually well formulated.
Yes, I too once wondered this so I read Chomsky on Anarchism (I think just because it sounded like an interesting topic), and came away with the conclusion that Chomsky’s intuition was that people were primarily motivated by something like ‘solidarity’ than was consistent with my intuitions (and generally along worker/non-worker lines). He does also have a habit of being intellectually rude by switching topics frequently and saying things which he should know are false.