I grew to dislike Chomsky after reading his academic works. I never read his political polemics. Chomsky supposedly created two "paradigm shifts." The first paradigm shift came when he declared to have discovered universals. His alleged universals weren't universal. I can't remember the second one. It was equally pathetic.
One thing that drove me crazy about the Chomsky cult was that admirers of Chomsky would rave on about how he was the most cited living academic and that Chomsky was the most influential scholar of the day.
Chomsky didn't just create one paradigm shift. He created two paradigm shifts! Maybe he created some paradigm shifts in politics. I think he has been pushing a contradictory ideology like "Libertarian Socialism."
Anyway scholars would praise Chomsky as being the most influential thinker of the day and In the next sentence they would frame Chomsky as a persecuted intellectual voice crying in the wilderness .... unheeded.
A person can't be both the most influential thinker of the day and be an obscure voice in the wilderness.
The same is true of Marx. Professors praise Marx as being the most cited economist in history. They then claim that Marx is an obscure voice that no-one as ever heeded.
No-one has ever read Marx. If no-one has read Marx; where did all the citations come from?