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I covered quiet a bit of his work in a Language and Computation elective. I previously only knew him from his political writings. His Linguistics work left me with a deep respect for his intelligence, as well as a deep pessimism that computers would really understand language any time soon (this was 15 years ago).

He certainly hasn't abandoned the anarchist label, and is still very active in leftist circles, frequently giving interviews in these areas.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12618.Chomsky_On_Anarchi...

Correct me if I am mistaken, but I heard that he used to call himself some sort of an Anarchist up until his debate with Foucault.

Your last sentence is I think true. Your first sentence is I think demonstrably false, for all contexts except linguists and computer scientists.

He's best known as a public commentator and political activist. As a public contrarian to the current world system. He's not best known for Chomsky grammar classes on tv

Check out the books he's written: https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/2476.Noam_Chomsky