how do Americans perceive Noam Chomsky? do they regard him as a left oriented thinker?

Answer 1

I was going to answer your later question with Chomsky. No one would doubt him as an intellectual, nor is his politics ambiguous, and one would add that he uses humor to good effect, but how influential he, as an individual, is in the wide American body politic is the question. I'm not too sure he has wide name recognition. But as a source of original political argument used and quoted by others, that is the means of what influence he has.

Answer 2

Chomsky is a leading linguistic scientist and a longtime professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His 1957 book Syntactic Structures outlined his theories of transformational generative grammar and made him a prominent and controversial figure in the field. Chomsky is also known as a political activist suspicious of big media, big business and big government. His books include Manufacturing Consent (1988) and Propaganda and the Public Mind (2001). He is sometimes compared with another scholarly activist, Bertrand Russell.

I doubt there are many familiar with him outside of literary circles. He certainly isn't a main stream name.

Answer 3

For people that actually know who Noam Chomsky is, we don't think he actually thinks. Therefore, while he may be a "left oriented" person, he's definitely not a thinker.

Think of him as a non-economics Paul Krugman.

Answer 4

I regard him as an intellectual thinker, and in many conservative's repertoire, the words intellectual and thinker are repugnant, and regardless of content they reject outright and tack a label on it.

I disagree with some of his premises, but respect his work.

Answer 5

I regard him as left oriented, I do not regard him as a thinker.

Answer 6

I would call him a propagandist, leader of the I Hate America Community.

Answer 7

Yes I do, but he has made millions off of his right oriented marketing.

Answer 8

I doubt most Americans know who he is.