Re: CHAT: Chomskyite

In a message dated 07/27/2002 01.03.21 PM, a-rosta writes:

>John Cowan
>
>> "I do not wish to be called a Chomskyite, as if I were a believer in
>> some absurd religion."
>>         -- Some professional linguist or other
>
>I've only heard the term used in exactly that pejorative way. <SNiP>
    I wonder how much of this ire might be because of his far Left politics
(IIRC he is very much influenced by pacifistic anarchism and AFAIK lately he
has been a leading member of one of the American Green Party's more radical
factions).

    " If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we
don't believe in it at all. " --- Noam Chomsky

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