By Bob Black

The essay (ostensibly a book review) is a critique. It relates Noam Chomsky’s Cartesian philosophy of language to his affirmation of an objective, universally binding morality and to his derivative affirmation of the objective moral reality of human rights. It is also a critique of Chomsky’s version of anarchism, which is found to have only a minimal basis in classical anarchist theory, and which is in an antagonistic relation to most contemporary anarchism, especially post-left anarchism. Also criticized are Chomsky’s views on political and industrial democracy.

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