Linguist, professor, author, and activist.
Is probably the most well-known American
anarchist.
Somewhat curious given the fact that he is a
liberal-leftist politically, and downright
reactionary in his academic specialty, linguistic
theory.
Chomsky is also, by all accounts, a
generous, sincere, tireless activist -- which
does not, unfortunately, ensure his
thinking has liberatory value.
He is critical of government policies.
His goal is for “ a significant degree of
democratization“.
Chomsky believes that all languages —
and there are more than 5,000 —
contain core similarities in grammar
structure that humans inherently
understand from birth.
This concept is called
transformational generative
grammar. Chomsky stresses that it is the
universal unconscious aspects of
language that allow individuals to
create original grammatic sentences.